Chris Tribble Books

At convent school, a girl acquires romantic notions of a lover who will live for her alone. She marries a kind but dull country doctor and discovers that "This life of hers was as cold as an attic that looks north; and boredom, quiet as the spider, was spinning its web in the shadowy places of her heart." Emma Bovary's quest for escape from the emptiness of her bourgeois existence leads to infidelity and financial extravagance, and Gustave Flaubert's powerful and deeply moving examination of her moral degeneration is universally regarded as a landmark of nineteenth-century fiction. Flaubert was brought to trial by the French government on the grounds of this novel's alleged immorality but narrowly escaped conviction. Madame Bovary remains a touchstone for literary discussions of provincial life and adultery as well as a summit of prose art, a pioneering work of realism that forever changed the way novels are written. This complete and unabridged edition features the classic translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling.

Focusing on classroom practice, this book offers practical guidance for language teachers eager to integrate concordance data into their teaching. It addresses the growing interest in using computers and text corpora to enhance educational materials and improve language instruction. Authors Chris Tribble and Glyn Jones provide numerous classroom-tested examples that demonstrate the application of concordances in areas such as grammar, vocabulary, literature, and English for Special Purposes, making it a valuable resource for educators.

Published 1997. Writing introduces both traditional and more recent approaches to the teaching of this skill and shows how current teaching materials put these approaches into practice. The reader is encouraged to think about the reasons for teaching writing, and to see how many different types of writing - factual or creative, public or personal, business or academic - can be brought into the language classroom.