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"The Art of War" Sun Tsu

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

"The Madding of Daniel O'Hooligan" by Peter Weir

If you can find a copy I'll double your money!

E. B. White author of

"Charlotte's Web"

FOURTH WALL: Sometimes referred to as the "third wall," depending upon how a stagebuilder numbers the sides of the stage, the fourth wall is an imaginary wall that separates the events on stage from the audience. The idea is that the stage is constructed with a cutaway view of the house, so that the people sitting on the audience can look through this invisible "fourth wall" and look directly into the events inside. Such stages preclude theater in the round (see below), and they require a modified apron stage set up in with an expensive reproduction of an entire house or building, often complete with stairs, wallpaper, furniture, and other bits to add verisimilitude. This type of stage became increasingly common within the last two centuries, but the money involved in constructing such stages often precludes their use in drama, leaving arena stages fairly popular.

Gary Jennings author of Aztec and Aztec Blood. When I read these I was having to sneak cause my mom told me I wasn't allowed to read them, which made me HAVE to read them then!

Harry Potter and the Chamber of secrets

IDEOGRAPH: Also called a logograph or ideogram, this is a written symbol system in which a single marking or collection of markings represents not a phonetic sound but rather an entire word or idea. Classical Egyptian, Cuneiform, Mandarin Chinese, and Japanese are ideographic languages. This term is contrasted with a phonetic language, in which a single marking or collection of markings represents a single sound. For instance, contrast the two markings below.

Above, we see the Mandarin symbol for tao, a term meaning "the way" or "the path." The entire marking represents in the abstract a pilgrim or traveller moving along the road. We cannot break down the symbol so that one part represents the consonant /t/ sound and another part represents the /aU/ dipthong. On the other hand, when we examine Greek, we might see a marking like this one:
Here, we see the Greek word ethos, meaning "character, authority, or charisma." However, the word is spelled out phonetically, with the first marking indicating the /e/ sound, the second marking representing the [th] sound, the next representing an /o/ sound, and the final marking representing the /s/ sound. Similarly, the Latin term for path is via, and it is written out phonetically as three letters, v, i, and a. The markings represent sounds rather than images or ideas. You can find out more about pictographic ideographs by downloading this handout. Keep in mind, modern English is a language with only delusions of being phonetic. In actual point of fact, English contains many silent letters and variations of spelling that no longer represent sounds with the same consistency as a purely phonetic language. To see how far Modern English is from being truly phonetic, read this poem.

"I, Claudius" by Robert Graves

Jules Verne: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Kipling, Rudyard

Litotes: A not unuseful form of expression that, we being the opposite of without, allows us a non-restricted counter-enslavement of our anti-unemployment of contra-negated disreversal of negatives.

Mark Haddon
Author of "The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-time".

Nader, Ralph

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.