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Great Expectations

5, November, 2020 0 Eutrapelia team

Charles Dickens’s bildungs-roman paints the life of an orphan boy, Pip, raised by his sister and her husband. Among other powerful and well built characters as Mrs Gargery, Joe, Miss Havisham, Estella, we find out that Pip is a shy…

Books

Wives and Daughters

23, September, 2020 0 Eutrapelia team

A novel about relationships, Wives and daughters, describes the lives of two families from the nineteen century, the family of doctor Gibson and squire Hamley. The story, embroidered with a touch of comedy and romance, portrays the young woman, Molly…

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The Betrothed (The Movie)

15, September, 2020 0 Eutrapelia team

The adaptation of Alessandro Manzoni’s novel, one of the most important pieces of Italian literature, pictures the piety and suffering of the people of Como in times of plague. The wedding between two peasants, Renzo and Lucia is foiled by…

Movies

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

10, September, 2020 0 Eutrapelia team

Powell and Pressburger were legendary British film producers of the mid 20th century, and all of their output is worth considering by those in search of wholesome entertainment. This is an example of a film both set in and released…

Cartoons

Song of the Sea

3, September, 2020 0 Eutrapelia team

Song of the Sea is a modern-day Irish fairy tale with a 20th-century setting and roots in Celtic and Irish mythology – the folklore of selkies, the seal-people who can shed their seal-skins and become human. Ten-year-old Ben and his…

Books

Old Shurehand

3, September, 2020 0 Eutrapelia team

Old Surehand I was written by Karl May a year after the publication of Winneotu I (1893). With the help of Old Wabble, the “King of the Cowboys”, Old Shatterhand wants to free the mysterious westerner Old Surehand from the…

Books

Winnetou

3, September, 2020 0 Eutrapelia team

Karl May wrote over 70 books, translated into over 30 languages. Among his best-known works is Winnetou, published in three volumes between 1876 and 1893. The story depicts the friendship of Old Shatterhand, an American pioneer of German descent, and…

Books

Treasure Island

3, September, 2020 0 Eutrapelia team

A young boy named Jim Hawkins got his hands on a map showing the location of a buried pirate treasure. A group of people is ready to go on a treasure hunt, but their plans are about to be destroyed…

Books

Around the World in Eighty Days

3, September, 2020 0 Eutrapelia team

The story sets itself in the middle of 19th century, in London, where Phileas Fogg and his loyal servant Passepartout set off on a race to round the world in eighty days on a wager of twenty thousand pounds. This…

Books

In Search of the Castaways

3, September, 2020 0 Eutrapelia team

A message in a bottle leads to an epic search around the globe for a lost sea captain and his crew. Savages, wild animals, hurricanes, wild sea storms, volcanoes, bandits and pirates are some of the adventures that the party…

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