Adventures in English

Piano – Four Levels | Adventures in English Vol I

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Piano | Four Levels | Adventures In English Vol I | BBA Notes

Author: David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930)
Unit One: Introduction
Subject: Adventures in English Volume I

Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic, and painter. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. Some of the issues Lawrence explores are emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct.

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The Lady With The Dog – Four Levels | Adventures in English Vol II (Two)

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The Lady With The Dog

The Lady With The Dog

Unit : Six (Love)
Written By : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29,January 1860 – 15,July1904) was a Russian playwright and short story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics.”The Lady with the Dog” is a short story by Anton Chekhov first published in 1899. It tells the story of an adulterous affair between a Russian banker and a young lady he meets while vacationing in Yalta.

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To His Coy Mistress Analysis – Four Levels | Adventures In English Vol II (Two)

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To His Coy Mistress Analysis 

 

 To His Coy Mistress Analysis 

 

Unit : Six ( Love )
Written By : Andrew Marvell (31 March 1621 – 16 August 1678) was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678.”To His Coy Mistress” is a metaphysical poem written by him either during or just before the English Interregnum (1649–60).This poem is considered one of Marvell’s finest and is possibly the best recognized carpe diem poem in English. Although the date of its composition is not known, it may have been written in the early 1650s. At that time, Marvell was serving as a tutor to the daughter of the retired commander of the New Model Army, Sir Thomas Fairfax.

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The Tiny Closet – Four Levels | Adventures In English Vol II (Two)

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The Tiny Closet

The Tiny Closet

Unit : Five ( Drama )

The Tiny Closet

Written By : William Motter Inge (May 3, 1913 – June 10,1973) was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations. In the early 1950s, he had a string of memorable Broadway productions, and one of these, Picnic, earned him a Pulitzer Prize. With his portraits of small-town life and settings rooted in the American heartland, Inge became known as the “Playwright of the Midwest.”

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Who was to Blame? – Four Levels | Adventures In English Vol II

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Who was to Blame?

Who was to Blame?

Unit: Three ( Humor and Satire )
Written By: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. Chekhov practiced as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: “Medicine is my lawful wife”, he once said, “and literature is my mistress.”

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