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The Last of the Mohicans
€3,90di J. F. Cooper
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Death and honour are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.’Set in frontier America in the midst of the French-Indian war, as the French are attempting to overthrow an English fort, Cooper’s story follows Alice and Cora Munro, pioneer sisters who are trying to find their way back to their father, an English commander. Guided by an army major and Magua, an Indian from the Huron tribe, they soon meet Hawk-eye, a frontier scout and his Mohican Indian companions Chingachgook and Uncas.Magua is not all that he seems and the sisters are kidnapped. In The Last of the Mohicans, Cooper sets Indian tribe against Indian tribe and lays bare the brutality of the white man against the Mohicans.
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The Scarlet Letter
€4,50by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and will not reveal her lover’s identity. The scarlet letter A (for adultery) she has to wear on her clothes, along with her public shaming, is her punishment for her sin and her secrecy. She struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.
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The Translator
€12,00di Leila Aboulela
Sammar is a young Sudanese widow, working as an Arabic translator at a British university. Following the sudden death of her husband, and estranged from her young son, she drifts, grieving and isolated. Life takes a positive turn when she finds herself falling in love with Rae, a Scottish academic. To Sammar, he seems to come from another world and another culture, yet they are drawn to each other. ‘The Translator’ is a story about love, both human and divine. Leila Aboulela’s first novel, first published in 1999, was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the IMPAC Dublin Award, and was shortlisted for the Saltire Prize. It has subsequently appeared in editions worldwide.
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Theoretical Description and Practical Applications of Linguistic Corpora
€14,70by Roberta Facchinetti
This book is intended primarily as an introduction to linguistic corpora for any scholar, teacher or student who approaches them for the first time. To this aim, the author has provided an overview of their most typical features and contexts of exploitation, both in theoretical and in applied linguistics, together with a discussion on key issues pertaining to corpus design, compilation, and annotation. In so doing, an attempt has been made to clarify and systematize a few still foggy areas in this field, particularly from the terminological point of view. The book also includes three appendices, listing respectively all the corpora cited in the volume in alphabetical order, the software discussed and the other computerised resources quoted in the book. Every effort has been made to present the data and material in a clear, straightforward way, so as to enable the readers to glean information, to deepen their knowledge, and most of all to boost their desire for learning, which is the core of all theoretical knowledge and practical competence.
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Ti racconto una magia
€12,00a cura di Paola Tonussi
«E solo con l’altro sguardo, con lo sguardo dell’anima, che si può vedere veramente tutto» (Silvio Raffo)
«La scrittura non è magia ma, indubbiamente, può diventare la porta d’ingresso per quel mondo che sta nascosto dentro di noi. La parola scritta ha la forza di accendere la fantasia e illuminare l’interiorità» (Aharon Appelfeld)
Come nasce un Concorso letterario per le Scuole
Il Rotary è un’organizzazione internazionale il cui operato si definisce tramite diverse “vie di azione”, che ne orientano l’attività di servizio, o service.
La quinta via d’azione, l’Azione giovani, si prefigge di dar voce alle nuove generazioni con programmi pensati appositamente per loro.
Sempre, infatti, rimane un’impronta positiva nella vita di quei giovani i quali hanno condiviso progetti locali o internazionali che promuovono la pace e la comprensione tra culture, o hanno partecipato a scambi studi e iniziative volte a mettere in luce il loro potenziale.
Compito di ogni rotariano è dunque accompagnare i giovani verso il futuro, aiutarli a sviluppare le loro doti individuali, riconoscendone la diversità delle varie inclinazioni ed esigenze.
Con questo intento è stato promosso dal Rotary Club Verona il «Concorso Rotary Verona Ti racconto una magia», dedicato agli studenti delle Scuole Medie e Superiori. Il titolo è desunto dal motto della Presidente Internazionale 2024-2025 Stephanie Urchick, The Magic of Rotary, che caratterizza la volontà rotariana di «creare cambiamenti in se stessi, nelle comunità e nel mondo».
