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Title of the novel	The Golden Bowl
Write an introduction	This novel is one of the great novel by Henry James. The story revolves around a beautiful, but cracked, golden bowl and the secrets this bowl allows to surface.
What is the novel about?	The novel tells about Maggie Verver who saves her marriage although her husband has affair with is ex girlfriend. And actually that girl is her best friend and her father’s wife.
How many characters are in that novel?	There are ten characters in this novel. There are Prince Amerigo, Maggie Verver, Charlotte Stant, Adam Verver, Fanny Assingham, Colonel Robert 'Bob' Assignham, Mrs. Rance, The Principino, Lady Castledean.
What was your favourite part or character?	My favourite character is Maggie Verver, because she can save her marriage with her own way. At beginning she is innocent child but when she has a problem she can stands as a woman and saves her marriage. It makes her husband realizes awith Maggie and regret with what he has done.
How is the plot?	Prince Amerigo, an impoverished but charismatic Italian nobleman, is in London for his marriage to Maggie Verver, only child of the widower Adam Verver, the fabulously wealthy American financier and art collector. While there, he re-encounters Charlotte Stant, another young American and a former mistress from his days in Rome; they met in Mrs. Assingham's drawing room. Charlotte is not wealthy, which is one reason they did not marry. Maggie and Charlotte have been dear friends since childhood, although Maggie doesn't know of Charlotte and Amerigo's past relationship. Charlotte and Amerigo go shopping together for a wedding present for Maggie. They find a curiosity shop where the shopkeeper offers them an antique gilded crystal bowl. The Prince declines to purchase it, as he suspects it contains a hidden flaw. After Maggie's marriage, she is afraid that her father has become lonely, as they had been close for years. She persuades him to propose to Charlotte, who accepts Adam's proposal. Soon after their wedding, Charlotte and Amerigo are thrown together because their respective spouses seem more interested in their father-daughter relationship than in their marriages. Amerigo and Charlotte finally consummate an adulterous affair. Maggie begins to suspect the pair. She happens to go to the same shop and buys the golden bowl they had rejected. Regretting the high price he charged her, the shopkeeper visits Maggie and confesses to overcharging. At her home, he sees photographs of Amerigo and Charlotte. He tells Maggie of the pair's shopping trip on the eve of her marriage and their intimate conversation in his shop. (They had spoken Italian, but he understands the language.) Maggie confronts Amerigo. She begins a secret campaign to separate him and Charlotte while never revealing their affair to her father. Also concealing her knowledge from Charlotte and denying any change to their friendship, she gradually persuades her father to return to America with his wife. After previously regarding Maggie as a naïve, immature American, the Prince seems impressed by his wife's delicate diplomacy. The novel ends with Adam and Charlotte Verver about to depart for the United States. Amerigo says he can "see nothing but" Maggie and embraces her.
Who would you recommend the book to?	The book or the novel recommend to everyone who like read novels or the students who do research in literature, this book can be one of the reference.

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Introduction	Title of the book	Dialectology
	Author’s name	J.K. Chambers and Peter Trudgill
	Publisher	Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge
	City	Cambridge
	Year of publication	1980
Summary of content	Proportional summary weight of the important points of each section (Chapter/unit)	1.      Dialect and Language Dialectology is the study of dialect and dialects. But in exactly dialect. Dialect is also a term which is often applied to forms of language, particularly those spoken in more isolated parts of the words, which have no written form. 2.      Dialect geography Among the most commonplace observations that human beings make from day to day are dialect differences. 3.      Dialectology and Linguistics In this chapter Dialectology divided into 3.1  Dialectology and philology 3.2     Structural dialectology 3.3  Generative dialectology 3.4  Polylectical grammars 4.      Urban dialectology In this chapter we note improvements and developments of other types. 5.      Social differentiation and languange In this chapter we examine some of relationships between language and social features. 6.      Sosiolinguistics structure and linguistic innovation 7.      Boundaries In this chapter we will take closer at same isoglosses in order to determine their function and their usefulness in dialectology. 8.      Transitions 9.      Variability This chapter outlines some of the main thrusts in the attempt to integrate the analysis of variability into linguistic theory 10.  Diffusion : sociolinguistic and lexical Innovations spread geographically and develop a geolinguistic model to account for it. 11.  Diffusion : geographical
	Correlation between the overall structure and content (Book structure and organization)	In chapter 2, 3, and 4 there are correlation because in that chapter give explaining
Analysis of the text	Author’s writing style	Using a fomal languange, give picture like maps in order the readers can understand easily
	Author’s points of view	The author as the source
	Author’s major hypothesis	The author give explaining about dialect and languange
Evaluation of the text	A brief summary of all the weakness and strengths	Weakness : too much sentences and explaining so the readers can not understand easily. Strengths : there are pictures or maps and table, so we can understand easily
	Usefulness to the audience	This book usefulness to the audience because the audience can know about dialect and they can do research about linguistic.
	Reasons why you like/dislike the book	I like this book although this book makes me bored. But we can study about dialect easily.

Reviewer’s name        : Maulidya Andriani

Reviewer’s code          : 2211412030