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Frank McCourt

    August 19, 1930 – July 19, 2009

    This author explores the complexities of childhood and adolescence through autobiographical works. His writing is known for its raw realism and sharp insight into social and economic hardships. Through his prose, he captures the vulnerability and resilience of the human spirit when faced with adversity. His narratives serve as a powerful reflection on immigrant experiences and the challenges faced by those striving for a better life.

    Frank McCourt
    Level 4: Teacher Man Book/CD Pack
    Angela and the Baby Jesus
    Level 4: Teacher Man Book and MP3 Pack
    Angela's Ashes
    Angela's Ashes : The Story of an Irish Childhood
    Frank McCourt: 'Tis, Teacher man, Angela's ashes (box, 3 svazky)
    • 2014

      Reader im preisgünstigen Klassensatz zu einer Mindestbestellmenge von 10 Exemplaren Der kleine Frank erzählt die Geschichte seiner irisch-katholischen Familie, die dem tristen Leben im New York der 1930er entflieht und in der jungen Republik Irland einen Neustart wagt. Limerick wird ihre neue Heimat, doch das Leben dort gestaltet sich äußerst schwierig. Es gibt kaum Arbeit und zu allem Überdruss vertrinkt Franks Vater das Geld, das die Familie so dringend zum Leben braucht.

      Angela's Ashes, Class Set
    • 2014

      Der kleine Frank erzählt die Geschichte seiner irisch-katholischen Familie, die dem tristen Leben im New York der 1930er entflieht und in der jungen Republik Irland einen Neustart wagt. Limerick wird ihre neue Heimat, doch das Leben dort gestaltet sich äußerst schwierig. Es gibt kaum Arbeit und zu allem Überdruss vertrinkt Franks Vater das Geld, das die Familie so dringend zum Leben braucht.

      Angela's Ashes, m. 2 Audio-CD
    • 2011

      Level 4: Teacher Man Book and MP3 Pack

      • 78 pages
      • 3 hours of reading
      3.9(18)Add rating

      Contemporary / American EnglishWhen Frank McCourt becomes a teacher in New York, he finds himself standing in front of bored, confused, angry students. Will he fail as a teacher? Or can he use his miserable Irish childhood to help his students? This is the true story of one man’s surprising, upsetting, but sometimes very funny experiences in the classroom.This Pack contains a Book and MP3

      Level 4: Teacher Man Book and MP3 Pack
    • 2008

      Contemporary / American English When Frank McCourt becomes a teacher in New York, he finds himself standing in front of bored, confused, angry students. Will he fail as a teacher? Or can he use his miserable Irish childhood to help his students? This is the true story of one man's surprising, upsetting, but sometimes very funny experiences in the classroom.

      Level 4: Teacher Man Book/CD Pack
    • 2007

      "When my mother, Angela, was six years old, she felt sorry for the Baby Jesus in the Christmas crib at St. Joseph's Church near School House Lane where she lived...."* * * *Frank McCourt's Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir "Angela's Ashes" is a modern classic. Now he has written a captivating Christmas story about Angela as a child -- often cold and hungry herself -- compelled to rescue the Baby Jesus and take him home. This story is pure McCourt -- genuine, irreverent and moving.It is elegantly illustrated by two-time Golden Kite Award winner Loren Long and is the perfect Christmas story for all ages.

      Angela and the Baby Jesus
    • 2006

      El profesor

      Una novela sobre la vida de un ingenioso profesor en Nueva York, una auténtica lección de humanidad.

      • 296 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      El relato empieza cuando McCourt tiene 27 años e, instalado en Nueva York, inicia una actividad académica para la cual sus estudios universitarios no han acabado de formarle. En efecto, las realidades sociales en un entorno tan duro como el neoyorquino resultan difíciles de digerir por parte de este inmigrante irlandés. Haciendo más caso a su intuición y a lo que le dicta su conciencia que a las directrices académicas, consigue despertar el interés de sus alumnos. Para ello, decide bajarse del pedestal en el que viven instalados la mayoría de profesores y se dedica a escuchar a sus alumnos y a aprender de ellos, poniéndose a su altura para conocer sus inquietudes, sus gustos y su forma de ver el mundo.

      El profesor
    • 2006

      Eats Shoots & Leaves

      • 209 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      3.9(98613)Add rating

      'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' adopts a militant approach to punctuation and attempts to recruit an army of vigilantes who will send letters back with the punctuation corrected, not accept sloppy emails, and climb ladders with pots of paint to remove redundant apostrophes from signs.

      Eats Shoots & Leaves
    • 2005

      From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, mega-bestselling author who wore his celebrity with extraordinary grace comes a magnificently appealing book about teaching and about how one great storyteller found his voice. Nearly a decade ago Frank McCourt became an unlikely star when, at the age of sixty-six, he burst onto the literary scene with Angela's Ashes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir of his childhood in Limerick, Ireland. Then came 'Tis, his glorious account of his early years in New York. Now, here at last is McCourt's long-awaited book about how his thirty-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer. Teacher Man is also an urgent tribute to teachers everywhere. In bold and spirited prose featuring his irreverent wit and compelling honesty, McCourt records the trials, triumphs and surprises he faced in the classroom. Teacher Man shows McCourt developing his unparalleled ability to tell a great story as, five days a week, five periods per day, he worked to gain the attention and respect of unruly, hormonally charged or indifferent adolescents. For McCourt, storytelling itself is the source of salvation, and in Teacher Man the journey to redemption -- and literary fame -- is an exhilarating adventure.

      Teacher man