Newland Archer, gentleman and

lawyer, is from New York. He has to marry May Welland. Yet he finds reason to doubt his choice of bride after the appearance of Countess Ellen Olenska . Newland desperately seeks a way to leave May and be with Ellen. Despairing of ever making Ellen his wife, he urges her to become his mistress.

Newland makes up his mind to abandon May and follow Ellen to Europe when May announces that she and Newland are throwing a farewell party for Ellen. That night Newland resolves to tell May he is leaving her for Ellen. She interrupts him to tell him that she learned that she is pregnant.

Chiara

I AM ROSA PARKSThe story is set in Alabama and talks about a woman, Rosa Parks, who, with the help of her husband and Marthin Luther King, started to fight aganist the segregation of black people. Beatrice

tom jones

Author: Henry FieldingGenre: comedy/novel

Mr Allworthy returns home to find a baby boy in his bed. He adopts the foundling, giving him the name Tom Jones. Tom grows up together with Master Blifil, Mr Allworthy’s nephew. While Tom grows into a wild but honest young man, Blifil becomes a scheming hypocrite. But when Tom falls in love with the neighbour’s daughter, Sophia,he is sent away. What will happen to the young gentleman?

This book talks about Zorro’ s adventures, also called “the Curse of Capistrano”. Zorro helps the poor and the weak, and he fights against his enemies, like Sergents Gonales and Captain Ramon. He always escapes and rides away on his horse. By night he wears a black mask and black clothes, but by day is a normal man, Don Diego. He is in love for Lolita, a beautiful girl. In the end of the story, Zorro kills Captain Ramon. So he takes off his mask and he marries Lolita.

Federica

Written by: Johnston

McCulley

It’s a fantastic story, in third person narrator -Scrooge is an old rich man who hate feast days

-The ghost of his business partner visits him 0n Christmas Eve

-Three ghosts visit him to change his life and everyone shows him something

-Scrooge becomes happy and everyone loves him

Chiara e Angelica

The Hound of the Baskervilles

This book tells the story of the Baskerville This book tells the story of the Baskerville family, pursued by an ancient legend of a family, pursued by an ancient legend of a Hound who has killed all of the male heirs. Hound who has killed all of the male heirs. Sherlock Holmes and Watson go to Sherlock Holmes and Watson go to investigate, and find out that the owner of investigate, and find out that the owner of the Hound is a man who Watson knew on his the Hound is a man who Watson knew on his first day in Devonshire. That man killed first day in Devonshire. That man killed because he wanted to inherit all the because he wanted to inherit all the Baskervilles' properties. Baskervilles' properties.

GiorgioGiorgio

Three friends decide to take a holiday on the Thames and to visit England’s country. During the trip they suffer lots of misfortunes but they amuse themselves telling comic stories. They are three friends with different characters, three friends who quarrel every day but in the end they have a nice trip and sadly return home. Silvia

The novel tells about an old treasure map found by the brave Jim Hawkins,

that will travel towards an island to look for Flint’s treasure before that the

pirates can find it.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

The novel tells about an old treasure map found by the brave Jim Hawkins. He will travel towards an island to find Captain Flint’s treasure before the Pirates find it…. Angelo

TREASURE ISLAND

SHORT REWIEW:The Geat warrior Beowulf offers to help the king of danes in a quest to kill two monsters and free his people from terror. When he comes back in his country he became the king and, after fifty years, he has to fight against another monster and both die

CHARACTERS:BEOWULFHORATGARGRENDEL GRENDEL`S MUMTHE DRAGON

TREASURE ISLAND

Author :Robert Louis StevensonWritten in: 1883

This book speaks about the adventure of Jim Hawkins that finds a map in a chest and use it to take Flint’s treasure. This book is very interesting , it isn’t boring because there aren’t a lot of pauses and there is more action than you could imagine. I suggest to all to read this book. Gianmarco

«Little women», written by Louisa May Alcott, is the first romance for girls. It talks about a poor family composed by four sisters and their mum. They live their life in a boring way untill they know the new rich neighboors: a boy called Laurence, his tutor and his grandfather. Since that moment they’ll become best friends. Claudia

The monster is like an enormous baby who needs

love. But nobody gives him love, and soon he learns to hate. And because he is so strong, the next thing he

learns is how to kill…

Matteo e Luca

MARY SHELLEY

This book was written by Sim Hasking and is set in the XX century in Alabama. It talk about the story of Rosa Park a black woman born during the apartheid. During this period black people didn’t have the same rights of white people. She did not accept this condition so one day when she was on the bus she refuse to live the seat to a white man. She went to prison but her husband Raymond paid the fine. After this day Rosa organized a revolution with Martin Luther King against racial segregation. Alessandro e Luca