In the little world of gold standard advocacy in the English language, most of the books date from the 1960s and 1970s.
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This is one of the best books in English to come out of the Bosnian conflict so far.
Most of the books on Worldreader Mobile are in English, with a few in local languages like Swahili, French and Spanish, though the number of books overall is increasing.
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Johnny Weissmuller, though, was hardly the Tarzan of the books, described as an English lord fluent in six languages.
His school, Christ's Hospital, had banned books in English about the classics, which were privileged territory, not for the masses.
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This is good news for writers from the anglophone countries: 103, 000 of all the 132, 000 books translated in the last ten years into the seven major tongues were from English.
Cheng, naturally, is a serial visitor to the cooking section, snapping up books in both English and Chinese.
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With hundreds of thousands of books being published in English every year, the variety and granularity is staggering.
Blyton, who wrote more than 700 books and died in 1968, was the best-selling English-language author of the 20th Century.
With this in mind, I do not see how The English Roses, and the four books to follow, can possibly fail.
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Most of the major publishers today are owned by international conglomerates who, at some point, will awaken to the realization that English majors in their employ are spending millions of dollars on books that no one wants to read.
Of all the translations of books done in a year, a staggering 75% are from English.
Some readers will be willing to make that trade-off, especially if Irex is able to add specialized stores in the future that offer, say, a large selection of non-English-language books.
Christie held his first auction in 1766, some 22 years after an English bookseller named Samuel Baker auctioned off the 457 books that had previously belonged to Sir John Stanley, founding what we know today as Sotheby's.
Canadian independent authors and publishers can utilize the English- or French-language KDP website to make their books available in Canada and more than 175 countries worldwide.
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Bethan Marshall, a senior lecturer in English education at King's College London told the magazine the literary merit of picture books was often underestimated, comparing The Very Hungry Caterpillar favourably with another literary hit, Yann Martel's Life of Pi.
Founded in 1975 by the American poet Ambar Past, the profit sharing collective prints Mayan language books and accompanying Spanish and English translations.
The tablet will come pre-loaded with 200 apps (100 in English and 100 in Spanish) and 200 books (also 100 English, 100 Spanish), including selections from content partners like Sesame Street and Oxford University Press.
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