«The Shadow Line — a short novel based at sea — was first published in 1916. It depicts the development of a young man upon taking a captaincy in the Orient, with the shadow line of the title representing the threshold of this development. Conrad also extensively uses irony by comparison in the work, with characters such as Captain Giles and the ship's «factotum» Ransome used to emphasise strengths and weaknesses of the protagonist
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When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea prison. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr Panks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the tipsily garrulous Flora Finching, to Merdle, an unscrupulous financier, and the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity
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Let's climb a mountain! Or fix a hole in an airplane! Or maybe we could journey to the center of the Earth? • This activity book contains 63 interesting and exciting mazes. Your child will get acquainted with the concept of the maze and develop attention, patience, and the ability to concentrate on tasks. Each task has a plot, so your child can easily understand where and why they need to draw a line and why they cannot go off the path • This book will help you teach your child how to properly hold a pencil, draw lines accurately and precisely, and prepare their hand for writing. Working with mazes helps develop fine mo-tor skills, which is important for developing language skills. The tasks in this book are organized from simple to more complex
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