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• "In Memoriam to William Makepeace Thackeray" - by Charles Dickens

  4 October 2015 by Charles Dickens

  William Thackeray (1811-1863), author of the immortal Vanity Fair, wrote a number of other highly-regarded and well-selling novels during his very successful career, notably the well-known historical blockbuster novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, Catherine (whose central character is a rather (...)

• Marcel Proust and the 4th Dimension

  10 October 2013 by Marcel Proust

  While the concept of a fourth dimension of "space-time" is generally associated with the theory of General Relativity developed by Albert Einstein between 1907 and 1915 and published in 1916, we would like to point out in ths anniversary year of the publication of the first volume of Marcel (...)

• How to Improve Your English (tips for French speakers)

  29 August 2010 by Ray

  06.08.2012: updated with the following word lists necessary and essentially sufficient to be able to start reading and enjoying books at the Grade 2-3 level (CE1-CE2): - Grade 2 regular and irregular verbs - Grade 2 nouns and adjectives - Grade 3 regular and irregular verbs Here you will (...)

• Good Words

  27 March 2008 by Ray

  These are some useful words that I have come across fairly recently (since my previous Good Words Register was last seen going north in a Montreal taxi in the wee hours of a morning, never to be seen again, some 4 years or so ago) that have been used to good effect by the rather top-notch (...)

• Shakespeare on Football

  1 October 2007 by William Shakespeare

  In King Lear, Act I, Scene IV, 76-84, there is the following dialogue: Lear: "O! you sir, you, come you hither, sir. Who am I, sir? Oswald: My Lady’s father. Lear: ’My Lady’s Father!’ my Lord’s knave: you whore-son dog! you slave! you cur! Oswald: I am none of these, my Lord; I beseech your pardon. (...)