John Byrne explain us in the book "The Story of Pop" how before The Beatles, pop music had been dominated by America. The blues was the music of American black people and the country'n western belonged to the poorer white farmers. In the 1950's the rhythms of blues were...
John Steinbeck wrote some of the best and most famous American stories ever. Jody Tiflin is often alone and he knows little of the world. But one day he gets “The red pony”. He learns how to love and his whole life changes.
“The Moon Is Down”, written by John Steinbeck, takes place in an unnamed town in an unnamed country that has been capture by an unnamed enemy that is at war with England and Russia. Since the book was first published in 1942, it is clear that the enemy is...
John Milne write this exciting adventure called "The Long Tunnel". Frank and his men were in the tunnel. The train alowed down and stopped. Frank quickly climbed up, opened the door of the guard's van. he threw down the bags of money.
'Move quickly', he said to his men. 'We...
It was the custom for lads to gather at the street corner on summer evenings and discuss trolleying. Spit Nolan was the champion trolley-rider. He had very good balance, sharp wits and he was very brave.
The dramatic story of Spit Nolan is one of thirteen in this collection of...
The story of “The Creative Impulse” book is easy to understand. The main character is a writer that earned to write The Achilles Statue. Actually she was not famous before she wrote the book. But she decided to write by one accident. The accident was that her husband went...
Ivan runs along the street. Ivan runs fast. Everybody is looking at Ivan. Why is he running alon the street? Where is he going? Do belonge to him "The Briefcase" that is carrying?
Salahadin is an inspector in the Egyptian police. His job is to protect Egyptian antiquitions. An antiquition is something which is very old, and archeologists studies them. One day, Salahadin's friend who is an archeolohgist was going to visit him. Salahadin waited him, but he is murdered. In his...
Rebecca and Sue like skiing. The suns’s shinning. There’s lots of snow. They are good skiers.
But Mark and David are godos skiers too. And there is going to be a race. Who is going to win?
Adam’s money order was for 100 pounds. Sudenly he was a rich man!
‘Go to the post-office,’ sdaid the school teacher. ‘They will give you the money.’
Adam went to the post-office. But the oficial did not give him the money. Adam felt old and he felt poor again. He was...
