Here's the trailer for the 1969 Oscar winning film of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, starring Maggie Smith. See what you think:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmNQVo1qpD8
Fingers crossed I may have a copy to look at and compare with for the class... We'll see...
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Welcome to the Learning English Through Literature Blog!
This is a space for you to exchange ideas, opinions and feelings about the books we are looking at and the ones you have chosen to present, perhaps even recommend some new ones.
As we only have bi-weekly classes this is an ideal place to meet and to relate your reading experiences between classes. Hopefully the posts here will also add to the richness of the discussions in class and provide a jumping off point for areas of discussion we might otherwise have overlooked.
Basically, the more you post, the more useful the blog.
So get writing!
Oliver
As we only have bi-weekly classes this is an ideal place to meet and to relate your reading experiences between classes. Hopefully the posts here will also add to the richness of the discussions in class and provide a jumping off point for areas of discussion we might otherwise have overlooked.
Basically, the more you post, the more useful the blog.
So get writing!
Oliver
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BOOKS THIS FAR III
- No Love Lost
- Selected Short Stories
- A Staggering Work of Heartbreaking Genuis
- End Game
- Tyrannosaurus Rex Vs The Corduroy Kid
- The Bloody Chamber
- The Crucible
- Ariel
- The Famished Road
- The Birthday Party
- The Iron Man
- Surfacing
- Talking Heads
- The Whitsun Weddings
Books Thus Far (II)
- Heart of Darkness
- Devil in a Blue Dress
- Leviathan
- The Wild Palms
- The Heart of the Matter
- The Remains of the Day
- Franney and Zooey
Books Thus Far
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- The Reluctant Fundamentalist
- Great Expectations
- The Accidental Tourist
- The Woman in Black
- The Turn of the Screw
- Disgrace
- The Road
Hi everyone! Here's the trailer of North and South series based on Elisabeth Gaskell's book which I shall present next session.I hope you enjoy it!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0E6YQnd3AE
I’m including as well an excerpt of the book so you can get familiar with the story.
When her father leaves the Church, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the North of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. In "North and South", Gaskell skillfully fused individual feeling with social concern and in Margaret Hale created one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature.
Hello to all! Thanks Mat, I liked so much the trailer that I bought the book and I am reading it. It is wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI am only sorry that I cannot find "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" anywhere. I tried through Amazon but has not arrived yet.
I read the Mark Haddon interviews and thought it very appropiate how M.H. claims on his imagination and of him being a writer and a novelist. Aren't novels about imagining other people's lives and situations? and of conveying the feelings of others although you might not agree with the author or the hero?
I thought he was very brilliant.
See you on Friday.
Have a nice reading week,
Julia