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For readers of Melissa Bank or Jhumpa Lahiri: witty, seductive stories of expatriate women, their loves and losses.“Interesting women – are we ever going to be free of them? I meet them everywhere these days, now that there is no longer such a thing as an interesting man…” So drawls the narrator of one of Andrea Lee’s jewel-like stories, herself, undeniably, an Interesting Woman. These gleaming, sensual stories bend a wit worthy of Colette’s on a demimonde of expatriates, teenage ‘pocket divas’, girlfriends, wives, mistresses and daughters. Each focuses on a moment of seduction, of self-discovery, where the mocking detachment of the outsider is briefly pulled aside. An American, chained by her Italian husband’s belief in her conventional wholesomeness, surprises him with two costly call girls for his birthday; but her pleasure in her own daring remains wistfully private. A New England beauty has a brief love affair, alternately lyrical and perverse, with a European prince more than twice her age. A woman, having earlier left her husband ‘in a moment of epic distraction’, has his new ex to stay, changing forever their understanding of the man they both married.‘Interesting Women’ teases the reader with ironic glimpses of the charged games of sexual power between men and women, and women with each other. It is that delicious rarity: a summer read of sophisticated intelligence, whose gorgeous images will linger long.

Полный вариант заголовка: «Interesting facts relating to the fall and death of Joachim Murat, king of Naples; the capitulation of Paris in 1815; and the second restoration of the Bourbons : Original letters from king Joachim to the author, with some account of the author, and of his persecution by the French government / By Francis Macirone».

Полный вариант заголовка: «Poems on interesting events in the reign of king Edward III : with preface, dissertations, notes, and a glossary / written, in the year 1352 by Laurence Minot».

Полный вариант заголовка: «Interesting account of the early voyages : made by the Portuguese, Spaniards, &. : to Affrica, East and West-Indies : the discovery of numerous Islands : with particulars of the Lives of those eminent navigators : including the life and voyages of Columbus : to which is perpixed the life of that great circumnavigator Captain Cook : with particulars of his death / extracted from Dr. Kipps's».

Состоит из десяти разделов, каждый из которых посвящен определенной тематике и содержит по два текста, носящих характер изучающего и ознакомительного чтения. При отборе текстов учитывалась их познавательность и информативность. Тексты снабжены лексическими и коммуникативными предтекстовыми и послетекстовыми упражнениями, направленными на развитие навыков устной речи. Отдельно представлены фонетические упражнения, предназначенные для устной тренировки отдельных слов и выражений, представляющих трудность в произношении. Весь материал пособия основан на аутентичном, частично адаптированном материале. Соответствует действующему Федеральному государственному образовательному стандарту высшего образования нового поколения. Для широкого круга студентов университетов, институтов, колледжей и школьников старших классов.