The Moon - The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers: impara l'inglese con Philip Pullman

by Philip Pullman, Marta Cai

Overview

The MoonC'è un regno che ogni notte si spegne completamente: al tramonto non resta più nessuna luce in cielo, neanche un vago chiarore di stelle. Finché una notte, durante un viaggio in un paese straniero, quattro giovanotti scoprono la meravigliosa luce della Luna, e cercano di rubarla...The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the ShiversC'è un ragazzo in un villaggio della Transilvania che invidia i suoi superstiziosi compaesani, che rabbrividiscono di paura per un sacco di cose (storie di fantasmi, cimiteri, forche con impiccati che penzolano...), mentre per lui la paura è un'emozione sconosciuta. Un bel giorno parte per il mondo, alla ricerca di qualcosa in grado di spaventarlo.Il testo è arricchito da:• Glossari con le parole più interessanti o difficili• Note su strutture della lingua, forme idiomatiche o famigliari, registri espressivi...• Reading Comprehension Exercises

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788867317929
Publisher:	Vallardi
Publication date:	02/26/2015
Sold by:	GeMS
Format:	eBook
File size:	298 KB
Language:	Italian

About the Author

Born in Norwich in 1946, Philip Pullman attended Exeter College at Oxford. He was a teacher for 12 years (and a teacher of teachers for an additional six!), and to this day he retains an avid interest in education.

Pullman wrote two adult novels in the 1970s before turning to juvenilia. The first of his children's books, Count Karlstein, is a funny-scary, gothic-tinged fairy tale published in 1982. The second was The Ruby in the Smoke (1986), a rip-roaring adventure story featuring a young Victorian girl named Sally Lockhart. Sally went on to star in a quartet of historical thrillers that helped forge Pullman's reputation.

Without question, Pullman's magnum opus is His Dark Materials, an ambitious, world-spanning trio of fantasy/adventures that offers a startling perspective on childhood, innocence, and evil. Published between 1995 and 2000, the multi-award-winning trilogy includes Northern Lights, published in the U.S. as The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; and The Amber Spyglass.

His Dark Materials incorporates iconoclastic ideas from the worlds of science, theology, and philosophy; but it is Pullman's religious views that have been placed under the most intense scrutiny. He has been accused of actively promoting an anti-Christian agenda in his books, and some critics have gone so far as to say His Dark Materials is a direct rebuttal to C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. Here is what Pullman has to say on the subject:

"The religious impulse -- which includes the sense of awe and mystery we feel when we look at the universe, the urge to find a meaning and a purpose in our lives, a sense of moral kinship with other human beings ¿ is part of being human, and I value it. I'd be a damn fool not to. But organized religion is quite another thing. The trouble is that all too often in human history, churches and priesthoods have set themselves up to rule people's lives in the name of some invisible god (and they're all invisible, because they don't exist) and done terrible damage."

Although he is often asked about the messages behind his sometimes inscrutable stories, Pullman refuses to elucidate. "I'm not in the message business," he has said. "I'm in the 'Once upon a time' business." For millions of enthralled readers, young and old alike, that's more than sufficient.

Hometown:

Oxford, England

Date of Birth:

October 19, 1946

Place of Birth:

Norwich, England

Education:

Exeter College, Oxford University

Website:

http://www.philip-pullman.com/