This work tells the story of three women who conspire against one. The three women are Philamine, her daughter Armande and her daughter-in-law Belise. They pretend to be precious and learned women, but they are fooled by a false scholar, Trissotin, who in reality only wants the money of this rich family. For a long time a man named Clitandre has courted Armande, who has always rejected him, preferring “the beautiful fires of philosophy’’. So he turned to Henriette, Armande’s younger sister, and fell madly in love. Now Clitandre and Henriette want to get married. However, all three women are ..read more

Zola is the founder of naturalism, a movement that stems from realism. It advocates social determinism and expresses things as they are, as realism already did.  Thérèse Raquin tells the story of a girl born of a relationship between an Algerian woman and a French soldier during the Algerian war who has been entrusted to her aunt who lives in the French countryside. Zola describes Thérèse as a girl who has always had a feisty character and has kept her wild side in check throughout her childhood because she had to behave like an exemplary girl as her aunt taught her. She is destined from ..read more

On february 23rd 2023, in “Don Sturzo” school, in Grottaglie (province of Taranto), a reading lab took place with the students and teachers of basic Italian classes, middle school and secondary school. Main guest: prof. Mario Guadagnolo, former Mayor of the city of Taranto, writer of several books. More info: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Guadagnolo Pasquale Nesca started presenting the Euread&art Erasmus project, showing on the dashboard the online project site and some of the work already done. Everybody showed entusiasm about the project and also prof. Mario Guadagnolo said i ..read more

”Le dernier jour d’un condamné” (The Last Day of a Condemned Man), published in 1829, takes the form of a diary written by a condemned man during the last 24 hours before his sentence, which goes into an inner monologue. He expresses his thoughts and memories from before. He tells us about the visits he received, in particular that of the priest. One can read the hope of a death row inmate not to be executed. He tells us about the conditions of prison life, detailing his day, his last request before being executed and describes how he will be executed in the public square, serving as an exa ..read more

Balzac is one of the fathers of the literary movement of realism. In his book ”le père Goriot”, the father Goriot, there is a lot of description of the places and environment in which the characters grow up. There is also a lot of description of the characters and their ways of being. This allows us to dive into the story and to know what is going on. If you want to know what Paris was like in the 19th century, Balzac takes you on a journey through time and describes every street corner the characters took. The story begins with Rastignac, a young man from the French gentry, who arrives in Pa ..read more

Molière was a 17th century playwright and actor who left his mark on the French language. He wrote Le médecin malgré Lui or ”the doctor in spite of himself”. It is one of his hilarious and satirical literary works. He is one of the few writers of his time who was not censored or executed despite his works criticizing the mores of society and especially of high society. He was able to criticize the king and his court as well as the bourgeoisie without forgetting the scientists who, according to him, were useless. Indeed, his mother died when she was ill and he was very angry at the doctors who ..read more

The story is set after World War II in the still rural Roman suburbs. Clelia is a young teacher who teaches the children of Italian emigrants who every day, to escape the misery of a difficult post-war period, leave their countries of the South and Central Italy in search of a better future. The school, courageously founded by an old priest, is the only sign of civilization in a closed world made of superstitions and resignation. The courageous teacher will try to stir consciences even if she will be faced with a hostile environment. Even her mother will disapprove of her behaviour. Only Oli ..read more

Atonement is a 2001 British metafictional novel written by Ian McEwan. Set in three time periods, 1935 England, Second World War England and France, and present-day England, it covers an upper-class girl’s half-innocent mistake that ruins lives, her adulthood in the shadow of that mistake, and a reflection on the nature of writing. In the heat wave that hits England in August 1935, the young Briony has found her vocation: she will be a novelist. At the age of thirteen, she sees the novel as a way to decipher the world. But when she surprises her older sister Cecilia with Robbie, a servant’s ..read more

“MITI E LEGGENDE DELL’ETA’ CLASSICA” is an excellent book to discover the tales of the past. It is specially designed for a young audience. Myths were born and spread by ancient peoples, to explain natural phenomena (the origin of the universe, fire, constellations, wind, rain…). Even if they seem unlikely stories to us, ancient peoples, lacking scientific knowledge and instruments, believed that they were true stories. Mythological tales, as we know, are characterized by incredible adventures, prodigious creatures and fascinating situations, with men and gods as protagonists. The latter ..read more

  John Patrick McEnroe is doubtlessly the man who changed the tennis world tradition. What once was the self-restrained and elitist game of the upper classes was then doomed to become an amazing TV show a mass audience would pay for. But beyond his endless and legendary quarrel with the referee on duty, McEnroe put in the play his impressive and surprising talent. Every shot was a coup de théâtre and every ball too close to the line, a show within the show. And there were his counterparts too. His matches against Björn Borg, Jimmy Connors, Andre Agassi, Pat Cash and last but not least I ..read more