what are you reading

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Hi everybody
In this topic we are going to recommend
some great books for reading
reading for information , enjoyment and pleasure ...etc
you can share different kind of books such as
Science Fiction, drama, Action , Adventure, Romance,
mystery, horror, diaries,
biographies, and fantasy.
Please share any book you read , have read , are reading
do not forget the following
essential information about the book
title , author
a short description of the book and
a picture of the book and an amazon link if possible
thanks to you all
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I will start with this book
which I read a long time ago


Educating Rita
by
Willy Russell

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Educating Rita is about a working-class Liverpool girl's hunger for education, is 'simply a marvellous play, painfully funny and passionately serious; a hilarious social documentary; a fairy-tale

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information about the play


https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75856.Educating_Rita

picture and price

https://www.amazon.com/Educating-Longman-Literature-Willy-Russell/dp/0582060133

summary of the book

https://www.gradesaver.com/educating-rita/study-guide/summary

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Good topic, well done
I hope people will share and read

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thanks.

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the second book I would like to recommend is

The Sound of Music
Maria Von Trapp

the true story of a young Austrian who
brought love and music to a widower
and his large family

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the book is about a hundred pages
and it was made into a film

here is the book cover and an amazon link

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=The+Sound+of+Music+book+cover&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjB8f-zycfoAhXS0-AKHQceCuIQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=The+Sound+of+Music+book+cover&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzoECAAQQzoCCAA6BAgAEB46BAgAEBhQt4M CWJHAAmDjxgJoAXAAeAKAAYgOiAHmQZIBDzItMS4zLjAuMS4zL jIuMZgBAKABAaoBC2d3cy13aXotaW1n&sclient=img&ei=VreEXsHuD9KngweHvKiQDg&bih=606&biw=1152&hl=en


https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Music-Alpha-Books/dp/0194241572

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a summary of the story

in English and Arabic

https://www.gradesaver.com/the-sound-of-music/study-guide/summary

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Good topic, well done
I hope people will share and read

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thanks.


thank you very much
I hope too

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the next book will be

Goodbye Mr. Chips
by
James Hilton

Goodbye Mr. Chips is the endearing and enduring story of
a slightly comical schoolmaster's career that illuminates
the story of Britain through two tragic world wars .

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye,_Mr._Chips


http://www.supersummary.com/goodbye-mr-chips/summary/


https://www.amazon.com/Goodbye-Mr-Chips-James-Hilton/dp/1504058879/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

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The Birds and Other Stories
by
Daphne du Maurier

a collection of short stories



https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=the+birds+and+other+stories&newwindow=1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjw07bC0NXoAhUDXpoKHU4mDU0Q_AUoAXoECCAQA w&biw=1152&bih=606#imgrc=T2t2Qr0RvZ44pM



https://www.amazon.com/Birds-Other-Stories-Daphne-Maurier/dp/1844080870


https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18869985-the-birds-and-other-stories


https://www.gradesaver.com/the-birds-and-other-stories/study-guide/summary


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Two brief , well written articles entitled

It takes more than a slap to teach right from wrong

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The day my daughter hit me
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see the attachment below

enjoy reading
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cheers

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Cry, the Beloved Country
by
Alan Paton

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information about this novel


https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%83+%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%87%D8% A7+%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%AF+%D8%A7%D9%84%D8% AD%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A8&newwindow=1&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj6jsjfy-PoAhUGrxoKHd65Cc4Q_AUoAnoECCAQBA&biw=1152&bih=606


https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cry+the+beloved+country&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiV7N710ePoAhXT44UKHbkOAi0Q2-cCegQIABAA&oq=cry+the+b&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQARgBMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAgg AMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADoFCAAQgwFQ3skKWKb6CmDziQtoA XAAeACAAdsFiAHLH5IBCzItNC4yLjIuMS4xmAEAoAEBqgELZ3d zLXdpei1pbWc&sclient=img&ei=XG6TXpXOEdPHlwS5nYjoAg&bih=606&biw=1152&hl=en


https://www.amazon.com/Cry-Beloved-Country-Alan-Paton/dp/0743262174

https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D8%A8%D9%83_(%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%AF _%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A8)

https://www.gradesaver.com/cry-the-beloved-country/study-guide/summary


https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6150.Cry_the_Beloved_Country


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry,_the_Beloved_Country#Characters

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Fever 1793
by
Laurie Halse Anderson


It's late summer 1793, and the streets of Philadelphia are abuzz with mosquitoes and rumors of fever. Down near the docks, many have taken ill, and the fatalities are mounting. Now they include Polly, the serving girl at the Cook Coffeehouse. But fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook doesn't get a moment to mourn the passing of her childhood playmate. New customers have overrun her family's coffee shop, located far from the mosquito-infested river, and Mattie's concerns of fever are all but overshadowed by dreams of growing her family's small business into a thriving enterprise. But when the fever begins to strike closer to home, Mattie's struggle to build a new life must give way to a new fight—the fight to stay alive.

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historical background in Arabic

https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A1_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%85% D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A1_% D9%81%D9%8A_%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A%D 9%84%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85_1793

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book cover


https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=fever+1793+book&newwindow=1&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiL9rSF4eToAhWMyaQKHYAMBqcQ_AUoAXoECCIQA w&biw=1024&bih=705


summary


https://www.gradesaver.com/fever-1793/study-guide/summary


amazon link


https://www.amazon.com/Fever-1793-Laurie-Halse-Anderson/dp/0689848919

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Sharifan

by

SAADAT HASAN MANTO

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It is the story of violent reaction, almost inhuman rage
and revenge of Qasim when he and his family is
attacked by enemies. He finds himself injured with
a bullet, finds his wife dead and discovers his
daughter, Sharifan, naked and dead.

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The journeys of Marco Polo


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Marco Polo (c. 1254-1324) was a Venetian merchant and adventurer who made an extended, twenty-four year (1271-95), journey with his father Niccolò and his uncle Maffeo into central Asia, including seventeen years spent in Mongol-controlled China.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=the+travels+of+marco+polo+book&newwindow=1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiwjqukzPPoAhVjqHEKHXUhBBwQ_AUoAXoECCEQA w&biw=1152&bih=606

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THE POETS AND THE HOUSEWIFE

Martin Armstrong

Once upon a time, on a summer's day, two poets having shut up shop, went out into the country to collect copy, for their stock of this commodity was exhausted. And they were careful to dress themselves carelessly : and one put on a black collar and black-and-white checked trousers, and the other a cravat of raging scarlet, " for " they thought (though they did not say so) " we must dress the part/' And their hats were wide and reckless and the hair beneath their hats was as the thatch upon a broad-eaved barn. And as they journeyed, poking about with their walking-sticks after the precious substance of their quest, there gathered over their heads the devil of a storm. And at the proper moment the storm burst and the rain came down and the poets left off seeking for copy and huddled under a hawthorntree. And they appeared as two proud exotic birds, lighted down from the Iyord knows where. And there was a lodge near the hawthorn-tree, and the lodgekeeper's wife looked out and, seeing the two, she exclaimed : — " lyord, look what the wet brings out! " And the rain increased fearfully. And when, after a while, she looked out again the poets were changed, for their bloom was impaired, the rain had clotted their hair, and the scarlet cravat of the one had become crimson from saturation. And rain dripped from all their extremities. And the lodgekeeper's wife was grieved for them and called out : — " Young men, will you not come in ? Why play the heron who stands lugubrious with his feet in cold water when it is open to you to become as sparrows twittering with gladness beneath the eaves ? " But they bowed politely and replied: — " Thanks awfully, ma'am, but we are poets and we like it. " And the lodgekeeper's wife was riled and sneered at them, saying :— " They have had a drop too much. " But they, smiling deprecatingly upon her, responded :— " Madam, you are pleased to be dry. "

" And you, " quoth she, " are pleased to be wet. " And she clapped-to the window, casting up her eyes and enquiring rhetorically " Did you ever ? " and " What next ? And the rain came down like hell, leaping a foot high from the road and sousing all things. And after another while the lodgekeeper's wife looked out again, and the two had gathered closer about the trunk of the hawthorntree, and they were as two old crows, for their shoulders were up and their beaks were down and they were unbelievably dishevelled. And, being a charitable woman, she shouted to them again :— " Miserable gentlemen, in the name of civilization and commonsense, come inside. " But they dared not turn their faces to her for fear that the water should run down their necks ; so, revolving themselves all of a piece, they replied : — " Renewed thanks, ma'am, but we are very well for we are acquiring copy. " But the lodgekeeper's wife did not understand the wood copy, so that she was amazed beyond measure and the power of comment was taken from her. And the storm, having stormed itself out, abated: and the place was filled with delicious smells of breathing leaves, and the warm sweetness of hawthorn perfumed the air. And the lodgekeeper's wife looked out from the window a fourth and last time, and the poets were departing. And the tragedy of their appearance was beyond all computing. For the scarlet from the cravat of the one had run down into the bosom of his shirt, so that he was as it were a robin-redbreast. And both were soaked to the uttermost. And when those poets were returned home, the one found that he had lost a shirt and the other that he had gained a cold. Therefore the one went out and bought a new shirt at seven and six and dear at that, and the other got himself a shilling bottle of Ammoniated Quinine which was tolerably cheap considering. And the one wrote an ode called Midsummer Storm for which he

obtained five guineas, so that (deducting fourpence for stamps and seven and six for the shirt) his net profit was four pounds seventeen and twopence. But the other could only manage a one-guinea sonnet called Rain Among Leaves, so that (deducting fourpence for stamps and a shilling for the Quinine) his net profit was but nineteen and eight. Thus the two acquired great store of copy (more indeed than they bargained for) and the sum of five pounds sixteen shillings and tenpence thrown in. But the wife of the lodgekeeper knew nothing of this : therefore she still believes, like many other ill-informed persons, that poets are but unpractical dreamers.

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the following play is one of my best
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A Streetcar Named Desire

by

Tennessee Williams

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more information about the book

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Streetcar_Named_Desire

https://www.gradesaver.com/a-streetcar-named-desire/study-guide/summary

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=a+streetcar+named+desire+book&newwindow=1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiSidmLz_PoAhWlURUIHaOuAjUQ_AUoAXoECCEQA w&biw=1152&bih=606

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https://www.amazon.com/Streetcar-Desire-Modern-Classics-Penguin/dp/0141190272

in Arabic


https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%87% D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%BA%D8%A8%D8%A9_(%D9%85 %D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%AD%D9%8A%D8%A9)

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last but not least

The Pearl
by the American author
John Steinbeck

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more information about this beautiful novel


https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=the+pearl+by+john+steinbeck&newwindow=1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj_x-na0PPoAhUHRxUIHSrTAOcQ_AUoAXoECCIQAw&biw=1152&bih=606

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pearl_(novel)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5308.The_Pearl

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https://www.amazon.com/Pearl-John-Steinbeck/dp/014017737X


https://www.gradesaver.com/the-pearl/study-guide/summary


in Arabic

https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D8%A4%D9%84%D8%A4%D8%A9_(%D8%B1 %D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A9)

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I hope this collection of books , stories and
articles will suit all tastes and be of great benefit
to you all . I wish you all the best .

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Mr. Rapidshare

you have a great taste
what an amazing collection you brought here
thank you soooo much

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the following play is one of my best
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A Streetcar Named Desire

by

Tennessee Williams


thank you very much
a good recommendation
I strongly agree with you
I did enjoy reading it some time ago
everything about the play was great
the time . the setting and characters
especially the English Language teacher
Blanche DuBois
I like it
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I am going to read this book

https://www.google.com.sa/search?q=trouble+with+lichen+john+wyndham&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjtgb332fbpAhVV6uAKHY46BnsQ_AUoAXoECB8QA w&biw=1280&bih=881

I hope I find it interesting

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Trouble with Lichen (published 1960) is a
science fiction novel by British writer John Wyndham

The plot concerns a young female biochemist who discovers that a chemical extracted from an unusual strain of lichen can be used to slow down the ageing process, enabling people to live to around 200–300 years. Wyndham speculates how society would deal with this prospect