— The Picture of Dorian Gray
— Bremen Town Musicians
— The Headless Horseman
— Rip Van Winkle
— The Missing Coins
— Look up!
— The Little Prince
— The Treasure Island
— Between You and me
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Dorian is an extremely handsome, impressionable, and wealthy young gentleman. Under the influence of Lord Henry
Dorian becomes extremely concerned with the transience of his beauty and begins to pursue his own pleasure above all else.
Íris, 9E
In Dorian's study
In Victorian London a well-known artist Basil Hallward meets Dorian Gray who sits for several portraits.
Lord Henry is a man possessed of “wrong, fascinating, poisonous, delightful theories.”
He is a charming talker, a famous wit, and a brilliant intellect.
His cynical seductive conversation leads Dorian to fall completely under his spell.
Dorian arrives at the studio, and Basil reluctantly introduces him to Lord Henry.
A poor, beautiful, and talented actress with whom Dorian falls in love.
Sibyl's true love for Dorian makes her realize the falseness of acting and pretending emotions onstage.
She kills herself after Dorian's decision of not loving her any longer.
James is Sybil's brother. A sailor who spends some years in the colonies. He's totally motivated by love and revenge. He adores his sister, Sibyl, and swears to kill anyone that hurts her:
"He is gone," murmured Sibyl sadly. "I wish you had seen him."
Over the next few weeks, Lord Henry’s influence over Dorian grows stronger. He decides to live a life dedicated to the pursuit of pleasure. He falls in love with Sibyl Vane, a young actress who performs in a theatre in London’s slums. He adores her acting.
Sybil in turn, refers to him as “Prince Charming” and refuses to heed the warnings of her brother, James Vane, that Dorian is no good for her.
Lord Henry's wife, Lady Victoria
In the world of upper-class erotic intrigue, she is 'usually in love with somebody'.
She offers a bolder challenge to the status quo than any of the men in the novel.
Alan Campbell is a scientist whom Dorian knew intimately once, but grows like many others to despise Dorian and doesn’t want anything to do with the death of Basil. Dorian blackmails him and he unhappily makes Basil's body disappear and commits suicide not long after.
Bremen Town Musicians
The Grimm Brothers
This is the story of four farm animals:
a donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster.
They work hard all their life.
Their masters no longer want them because they are old and can't help in the farm.
So, they decide to run away and become town musicians.
On their way to the city of Bremen they find some burglars in an old house in the forest.
They scare them away and decide to live there.
They find a new home and a new family.
They never get to Bremen !!
The Headless Horseman
Washington Irving
This is the story of Ichabod Crane, a superstitious schoolmaster.
He lives in Sleepy Hollow and comes from the state of Connecticut.
Sleepy Hollow is the quietest place in the world. People are always a bit sleepy.
Some people say there are bizarre spirits in this valley.
The people believe there is a ghost of a soldier of the American Revolutionary War..
A headless man in a big horse.
Every night he rides his horse and looks for his head. He rides in the valley, near the river, in the forest and on the roads. He always returns to the cemetery before daylight.
Katrina is Ichabod's singing pupil. She is eighteen and is very beautiful.
Ichabod likes Katrina very much and wants to marry her.
Katrina has many admirers.
Who does Katrina like?
No one knows.
Brom Bones is the hero of Sleepy Hollow.
He likes Katrina very much.
One evening there's a party at the Van Tassel's house.
Ichabod dances with Katrina.
Brom isn't dancing.
He's angry and jealous.
Everybody talks about the American Revolutionary War.
They also talk about ghosts.
No one knows what happens between Katrina and Ichabod that evening,
But he's very sad when he leaves the Van Tassel house.
Does Katrina prefer Brom?
It is a very dark and mysterious night.
Clouds cover the stars.
Suddenly Ichabod sees the
Headless Horseman.!!
The next morning Gunpowder arrives at Van Ripper's farm but Ichabod isn't there for breakfast. He isn't at school and he isn't at Van Ripper's farm.
They look for Ichabod everywhere but they can't find his body. Years later an old farmer returning from New York says to the people in Sleepy Hollow:
Ichabod Crane is alive and well. Now he's a Congressman. He left because Katrina wanted to marry Brom Bones.
Only Brom knows the true story !
But now, on winter evenings
the old women tell the terrible story of Ichabod Crane and the
Headless Horseman.
Rip Van Winkle
Washington Irving
It is 1769.
In a village near the Catskill Mountains lives a friendly man.
His name is Rip Van Winkle.
The Catskill Mountains change colours at different times of the year.
People say they are magic mountains.
The Van Winkles have two children, Rip and Judith.
Mrs Winkle nags Rip all the time.
He does everybody's work but his own.
The people in the village all love him.
Rip has a dog.
His name's Wolf.
One day they go for a walk in the mountain.
After some time Rip meets a man.
He carries a barrel. Rip helps him.
He's an old man. He has a long beard and he's wearing Dutch clothes
He takes Rip to a clear in the forest.
There he finds a group of men.
They are playing ninepins and wearing Dutch clothes.
No one speaks.
Rip drinks from the barrel too.
He is tired and he falls asleep.
When he wakes up everything has changed.
Wolf is gone.
He is an old man with a long white beard
He recognises no one in the village.
The houses are different.
George Washington’s portrait hangs in place of King George III.
Rip makes new friends. Everyone likes him.
He doesn't understand the American Revolutionary War or the new nation called the United States of America.
But he is a happy man now.
He lives with his daughter and his son visits them every day.
He also tells travellers about his twenty-year-long sleep.
Some people believe him...some don't :)
The Missing Coins
John Escott
Pete and Carla are both students at the University of Bath.
One summer day they are walking round the city and decide to look at some very old coins and stamps in a shop.
There is a man playing flute in a corner of a quiet street.
Pete wants to buy some, but they are too expensive.
Later that afternoon the coins are missing from the shop.
The shopkeeper calls the Police.
Carla and Pete explain they have not stollen the coins and help the Police solve the case.
They discover it is the flute player and the shop assistant.
In the end the shopkeeper gives Pete some old stamps for his collection.
Look Up
Nathan Bryon
Rocket is a space-obsessed girl who wants everybody to be as excited as her about an impending meteor shower.
She has a cat named Luna.
Luna the Cat
Luna the Cat
Rocket is going to be the greatest astrononaut, star-catcher, space-traveller that has ever lived.
Rocket needs to convince her big brother Jamal to stop looking down at his phone and start looking up at the stars.
Look Up!
THE PHOENIX
METEOR SHOWER!
The Little Princes
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
This is the story of a pilot who is forced to land in the Sahara Desert.
The pilot meets a small boy who asks him to draw him a sheep.
They
become friends.
The pilot calls him Little Prince.
The boy comes from a very small planet, asteroid B-612.
The
Prince looks
after
a silly
vain
rose
The story teller tries to repair his plane.
They spend 8 days in the desert.
The little prince tells us the story of his life
The prince then walks away and allows the snake to bite him. He falls down.
The next morning, the narrator can't find the prince's body. He finally manages to repair his airplane and leave the desert.
Has he gone home?
Has he died?
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Between
you and Me
She attends Ludovico Ariosto High School in Cordaro, the small town where she lives.
She is very helpful with her friends, she knows how to listen to people and gives a lot of advice. At first she didn't get on well with Chiara but later they became friends. She began to give her tips regarding her look, the profile on social media and how to approach the boys. (Martina)
This is Edo. He is such a racist and cynical person, and he is only 16. He lives in Cordaro, a city he hates. He says that there are too many immigrants, he particularly hates the Chinese because they steal jobs. He sometimes regrets about his actions. He also hates school, but he has good grades. He is crazy in love with one of his classmates, Giulia, and tries in any possible way to show he is in love with her. His parents are separated. His father has a severe liver disease, that forces him to live in hospital, and he sees his mother as a weak, narrow-minded person.
Chiara is a 15 year old girl, during middle school she was bullied, and now she wants to have a “glow up”, she defines herself “caterpillar”, and she wants to become a “butterfly”.
Cheng Yong,called Mandorlino, is a Chinese guy. He moved to Cordaro because his parents have a shop there. Mandorlino is a very shy guy, he always thinks for himself and he is polite; he tried to be a friend of Edo's but Edo thinks that he is a stupid and rude Chinese guy and mocks him with his friends. Mandorlino "comes out of his shell" and challenging Eric begins to assert himself. (Erica)
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— The Picture of Dorian Gray
— Bremen Town Musicians
— The Headless Horseman
— Rip Van Winkle
— The Missing Coins
— Look up!
— The Little Prince
— The Treasure Island
— Between You and me
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II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Dorian is an extremely handsome, impressionable, and wealthy young gentleman. Under the influence of Lord Henry
Dorian becomes extremely concerned with the transience of his beauty and begins to pursue his own pleasure above all else.
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