London

Titolo: London

By :John Escott

Subgenre: Novel

Setting :2011

Plot:At the beginnig there was one village, that village named London that was one of the most important city of England.After a lot of years there were some different people and this book speaks about different important places of London's city for example the Globe theater or the London eye.

Characters:The differences of the London's city.

Narrator: Jhon Escott

Point of view: General 

Style: detailed and realistic description

Personal comment: I think that this book is  really interesting and exciting. It speaks about some different things that are very important fot London's city. For example  at the beginning book speaks about Roman's population that invaded this place, after it speaks about the first queen,Elizabethan and much more.


ANNAPIA ALBANESE.

Dancing with  Strangers - by Clare West

Subgenre: stories
Setting: 21st century
Plot: this book deals with 4 stories from Africa. First, a man talks to a Greek girl flying to South Africa about marriage. Effectively the girl will marry a man that she has never seen. In the second story an Asian girl and an African boy meet at a university dance. The boy asks her to dance, but what will the girl's mother say? In the third story  strangers  are hiding from rebels in a war. In the last story there's a man worried for everything: for money, for his wife...
Characters:Ekaterina, Neil, Daniel, Yasmin...
Narrator: third person
Point of view: of the narrator

Dancing with Stranger- by Clare Wes

Studio Five

Studio Five by Anthony Manning 

SUBGENRE: novel 
SETTING: indefinitely
PLOT: Fay is a girl that works for a radio show, called 'Studio Five' and her boss often gets angry with her. One day, a boy phones at this show; his name is Simon Jones and he wants to tell the truth about his story and finds her mum. So, Fay wants to try a way to help this young boy and put in touch him with his mother because she'is still trying to do the same, but in this situation Fay's best friend doesn't want her to do this and he stop helping her. At the end of the story mum and son finally meet eachother instead Fay and Wing fall in love.
CHARACTERS: Fay, her boss, Wing, Simon and his mum
NARRATOR: first person
POINT OF VIEW: Fay's
STYLE: emotional language
THEMES: love between a little family, solidarity,
PERSONAL COMMENT: I liked this book because the story has an happy endingand also because the protagonist are two youn, for this reason it's a lot interesting.

                                                                          
                                                                          
                                                                                          Ludovica Mega

"Wuthering Heights" written by Emilily Brontë

• Subgenre: novel.
• Setting: XIX century-England.
• Plot: Heathcliff, a black child, changed the life of Earnshows' family. Everyone there detested him because of his rudeness, excepted Cathy. She was a girl who became fond of him. Every night they escaped their relatives to go to the moors. One night they met Edgar and Isabella Linton who lived at Thrushcross Grange. They became Cathy's friends and they hated Heathcliff too. When Cathy's father died, Edgar decided to merry Cathy, but there was a problem, she didn't care him, she loved Heathcliff. Despite that she accepted his proposal. After their wedding Catherine became ill, she and Heathcliff couldn't meet each other again, so Catherine died for her heartache giving birth Cathy. Cathy was Catherine and Edgar's daughter. In the same time Isabella and Edgar got married too. They also had a son, Linton. He lived with his mother, but when she died he went to Thrushcross Grange with Edgar and Cathy, while Heathcliff lived in Wuthering Heights. The latter wanted his son, but Linton was very ill and he treated him badly. His uncle, Edgar was ill too and died before him. Linton and Cathy got married because Heathcliff wanted to inherit Lintons' property. Finally Linton and Heathcliff died and Cathy married Hareton, her cousin and they lived in Wuthering Heights.
• Characters: Heathcliff, the protagonist; Catherine Earnshow, Heathcliff's stepsister; Edgar Linton, Catherine's friend; Isabella Linton, Edgar's sister; Hindley Earnshow, Catherine's older brother; Linton, Isabella and Heathcliff's son; Catherine, Catherine and Edgar's daughter; Hareton, Hindley's son. 
• Narrator: 1st person- Mr Lookwood and Ellen Dean.
• Point of view: narrator's.
• Style: detailed and realistic descriptions.
• Personal comment: I liked this book because it's a very interesting story with suspense. It is very easy to understand, but there are also important themes: love and death. The love is the anxiety that controls the characters and the death is their freedom, the end of their anguishes.     

-Scandiffio Arianna.

As the Inspector said

"As the Inspector said" by John Escott.

SUBGENERE: Crime and mistery
SETTING: 1900-London
PLOT: In this book there are five stories about criminals that think they are cleverer than other people, also than detective. But in these stories the criminals aren't successfull and have some difficulties. The stories are: As the inspector said, The man who cut off my hair, The railway crossing, The blue cross, Cash on delivery.
CHARACTERS: 1)Sonia, his husband, Charles Darrell, policemen. 2)Judith Lee, Mrs Dickson, Myrtle Cottage, policemen. 3)Dunstan Thwaite, John Dunn, Miss Lorraine, policemen. 4)Valentine, Flambeau. 5)Max Lister, Mr Elliston, Josephine Demiessieux.
NARRATOR: External, 3rd person


-Chiara De Ninno

"ARIADNE'S STORY" by Joyce Hannam
Subgenre: Legend