Vše co student potřebuje vědět
1. CRThe Czech Republic has other traditions than the UK or the USA, so some festivals are different or they are not celebrated, but nowadays some American traditional feast are celebrated in our country....
1. USAHabits in the USA came from the UK so they are similar, but most people in the USA celebrate all festivals in private in their homes. In America, each of the holidays is...
Charles Dickens Charles Dickens was born in 1812. He became the main leader of English realism. He grew up in a very poor family. His parents had problems with the police, because they owed...
UK1.1 New Year’s Eve & New Year’s Day· New Year’s Eve is the evening before New Year’s Day· People traditionally take a shower in the fountains on Trafalgar Square· in Scotland called Hogmanay1.2 Valentine’s...
George OrwellGeorge Orwell (1903 – 1950) was an important prosaist, journalist and essayist. His real name was Eric Blair but from 1930 he used the pseudonym Orwell (a name of an English river). He...
Aldous HuxleyThe best representative of the intellectual stream in the English novel is Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963). A. Huxley was a grandson of the great natural historian Thomas Huxley. He brought analytical scientific...
b) František Běhounek From the 1930s František Běhounek propagated science in literature. He wrote adventurous prose, science – fiction novels and science works from the field of radiology and atomic physics. František Běhounek was...
Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Illinois on July 21st, 1899. He was a writer and during the 20th century he created a mythological hero of himself that captivated and confounded not...
a) Jaroslav Hašek Jaroslav Hašek is a Czech writer who is known as a rebel in our literature because of his life style. He was born on the 30th March 1883 in Prague as...
Joseph Heller Joseph Heller is a famous American post-war writer, author of the successful novel Catch-22[1].He was born on the 1st May 1923 in Brooklyn. He comes from a Jewish- American family but, as...
