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Henry VIII

Sat, 18 May 2013 0:33:37 PST

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The world's leading center for Shakespeare studiesEach edition includes: Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play Scene-by-scene plot summaries A key to famous lines and phrases An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language An essay by a leading Shakespeare sc ...

The Salmon of Doubt

Wed, 15 May 2013 2:42:24 PST

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Notes from Underground, The Double and Other Stories (Barnes and Noble Classic Series)

Wed, 15 May 2013 2:39:41 PST

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Notes from Underground, The Double and Other Stories, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at ...

The Shack

Wed, 15 May 2013 2:09:37 PST

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Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he ar ...

Mother Night

Tue, 14 May 2013 2:34:28 PST

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Kisses from Katie

Mon, 6 May 2013 4:17:19 PST

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Recounts the story of a young woman's moving to Uganda and founding Amazima ministries, a nonprofit organization to feed and educate children.

Les Miserables

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 23:24:47 PST

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One of the most widely read novels of all time, Les Misérables was the crowning literary achievement of Victor Hugo’s stunning career. Though he was considered the greatest French writer of his day, Hugo was forced to flee the country because of his opposition to Napoleon III. While in exile he completed Les Misérables, an enormous melodrama set against the background of political upheaval in Fra ...

Henry VI Part 3

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 11:02:40 PST

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Each edition includes: Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the playFull explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the playScene-by-scene plot summariesA key to famous lines and phrasesAn introduction to reading Shakespeare's languageAn essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the playIllustrations from the Folger Shakespe ...

Henry VI, Part 2

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:44:04 PST

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Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play Scene-by-scene plot summaries A key to famous lines and phrases An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vas ...

The Idiot

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 1:50:40 PST

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Prince Myshkin is an epileptic. The self-important, self-serving members of society easily cast him aside. But by portraying these famous and shallow dignitaries of the upper classes in all their odium. Dostoevsky, himself a sufferer of epilepsy, gives Myshkin a high relief. Myshkin's honesty and piety stand him apart from his fellow human beings indeed, he is a modern Christ among them. Written ...

Henry VI Part I

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 1:59:21 PST

The Iliad

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:02:34 PST

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Homer's "Iliad" is the greatest and most influential epic poem ever written, telling of the tragic and bloody climax to the ten-year siege of Troy. This "Penguin Classics" edition was originally translated by E.V. Rieu, revised and updated with an introduction and notes by Peter Jones and D.C.H. Rieu. One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's "Iliad" tells the story of the d ...

The Prose Edda

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 14:36:56 PST

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The stirring, bloody, and tragic saga that inspired such artists as Wagner, Borges, and Tolkien Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, The Prose Edda is the source of most of what we know of Norse mythology. Its tales are peopled by giants, dwarves, and elves, superhuman heroes and indomitable warrior queens. Its gods live with the tragic knowledge of their own impendi ...

To a God Unknown

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 14:28:44 PST

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As his father lies dying, Joseph Wayne decides to trade his Vermont farm for a new life in California. Once established on his ranch, he comes to revere a huge tree as the embodiment of his father's spirit. Joseph's brothers and their wives join him, and their farms prosper. Then one of the brothers, repelled by Joseph's reverence for the tree, cuts it down. Consequences follow -- harsh and seve ...

John Keats

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:42:23 PST

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Escape from Camp 14

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:35:49 PST

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But Shin Donghyuk did. In Escape from Camp 14, acclaimed journalist Blaine Harden tells the story of Shin Dong-hyuk and through the lens of Shin's life unlocks the secrets of the world's most repressive totalitarian state.

Much Ado About Nothing

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:32:39 PST

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Folger Shakespeare LibraryThe world's leading center for Shakespeare studiesEach edition includes: Freshly edited text based on the best earlyprinted version of the play Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play Scene-by-scene plot summaries A key to famous lines and phrases An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language An essay by an outstanding sc ...

Welcome to the Monkey House

Mon, 3 Sep 2012 10:24:53 PST

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This collection of Vonnegut's short masterpieces share his audacious sense of humor and extraordinary creative vision.

A Moon for the Misbegotten

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 5:41:13 PST

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Eugene O’Neill’s last completed play, A Moon for the Misbegotten is a sequel to his autobiographical Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Moon picks up eleven years after the events described in Long Day’s Journey Into Night, as Jim Tyrone (based on O’Neill’s older brother Jamie) grasps at a last chance at love under the full moonlight. This paperback edition features an insightful introduction by Step ...

Strange Pilgrims

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 3:27:30 PST

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A Clockwork Orange

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 3:36:47 PST

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A brilliant reading from the novel by one of the wittiest commentators and literary figures of this century. "Antony Burgess reads chapters of his novel A Clockwork Orange" with hair-raising drive and energy. Although it is a fantasy set in an Orwellian future, this is anything but a bedtime story."-- "New York Times"

Sirens of Titan

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 23:21:00 PST

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In Vonnegut's tale of the near future, a cold and malevolent universe is all that humanity can ever know.

The Symposium

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 2:10:08 PST

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Unfolding in an informal setting, Plato's "The Symposium" is a powerful discussion on the nature of love, translated from the Greek with notes and an introduction by Christopher Gill in "Penguin Classics". In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerge a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex ...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 0:43:18 PST

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A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a ...

Candide

Thu, 9 Aug 2012 3:02:38 PST

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A flamboyant and controversial personality of enormous wit and intelligence, Voltaire remains one of the most influential figures of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Candide, his masterpiece, is a brilliant satire of the theory that our world is “the best of all possible worlds.” The book traces the picaresque adventures of the guileless Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwre ...

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch

Tue, 7 Aug 2012 5:28:07 PST

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From the icy blast of reveille through the sweet release of sleep, Ivan Denisovich endures. A common carpenter, he is one of millions viciously imprisoned for countless years on baseless charges, sentenced to the waking nightmares of the Soviet work camps in Siberia. Even in the face of degrading hatred, where life is reduced to a bowl of gruel and a rare cigarette, hope and dignity prevail. This ...

Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems

Thu, 2 Aug 2012 0:57:32 PST

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War and Peace

Wed, 1 Aug 2012 23:24:25 PST

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War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biograph ...

Macbeth

Wed, 1 Aug 2012 9:44:10 PST

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"Each edition includes: " - Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play - Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play - Scene-by-scene plot summaries - A key to famous lines and phrases - An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language - An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play - Illustrat ...

Troilus and Cressida

Wed, 1 Aug 2012 2:38:03 PST

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The Tempest

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 0:49:08 PST

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Each edition includes: Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play Scene-by-scene plot summaries A key to famous lines and phrases An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play Illustrat ...

Wading Home

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 12:46:29 PST

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" --"Kirkus Reviews" "Story weaves this tale of family ties and secrets back and forth between past and present, using finely drawn characters, jazz settings, ...

A Game of Thrones

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 7:39:43 PST

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Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin's magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already ha ...

The Four Loves

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 4:32:03 PST

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A candid, wise, and warmly personal book in which Lewis explores the possibilities and problems of the four basic kinds of human love- affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God.

Surprised by Joy

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 6:36:44 PST

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In this book Lewis tells of his search for joy, a spiritual journey that led him from the Christianity of his early youth into atheism and then back to Christianity.

The Count of Monte Cristo

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 4:15:16 PST

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Dashing young Edmond Dantès has everything. He is engaged to a beautiful woman, is about to become the captain of a ship, and is well liked by almost everyone. But his perfect life is shattered when he is framed by a jealous rival and thrown into a dark prison cell for 14 years. The greatest tale of betrayal, adventure, and revenge ever written, The Count of Monte Cristo continues to dazzle rea ...

The Problem of Pain

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 3:22:15 PST

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Beutifully repackaged as part of the C.S. Lewis Signature Classic Range, Lewis addresses the question which tortures every generation -- Why must we suffer? For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all -- 'If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?' And what of the suffering of animals, who neither deserve pain nor can be improved by it ...

Weight of Glory

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 3:15:19 PST

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Selected from sermons delivered by C. S. Lewis during World War II, these nine addresses offer guidance and inspiration in a time of great doubt. These are ardent and lucid sermons that provide a compassionate vision of Christianity.

Kingdom of Earth

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 2:45:59 PST

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The Return of the King

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 2:29:22 PST

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THE GREATEST FANTASY EPIC OF OUR TIME While the evil might of the Dark Lord Sauron swarmed out to conquer all Middle-earth, Frodo and Sam struggled deep into Mordor, seat of Sauron’s power. To defeat the Dark Lord, the accursed Ring of Power had to be destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom. But the way was impossibly hard, and Frodo was weakening. Weighed down by the compulsion of the Ring he beg ...

Miracles

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 2:54:28 PST

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An impeccable inquiry into the proposition that supernatural events can happen in this world. C. S. Lewis uses his remarkable logic to build a solid argument for the existence of divine intervention.

Women Beware Women, and Other Plays

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 0:52:30 PST

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This volume contains the four plays by Thomas Middleton which have most impressed the modern world: "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside" is the most complex amd effective of the city comedies; "Women Beware Women" and "The Changeling" (with William Rowley) are two of the most powerful Jacobean tragedies outside of Shakespeare -- studies in lust, power, violence, and self-delusive psychology; "A Game at C ...

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 7:28:14 PST

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Gordon Comstock is a poor young man who works in a grubby London bookstore and spends his evenings shivering in a rented room, trying to write. He is determined to stay free of the “money world” of lucrative jobs, family responsibilities, and the kind of security symbolized by the homely aspidistra plant that sits in every middle-class British window.

The Two Towers

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:30:10 PST

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Frodo and his Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in a battle in the Mines of Moria. And Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. While Frodo and Sam made their escape, the rest of the comp ...

The Fellowship of the Ring

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 0:04:40 PST

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In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell into the hands of Bilbo Baggins, as told in THE HOBBIT. In a sleepy village in the ...

The Hobbit

Mon, 9 Jul 2012 10:11:18 PST

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J.R.R. Tolkien's own description for the original edition: If you care for journeys there and back, out of the comfortable Western world, over the edge of the Wild, and home again, and can take an interest in a humble hero (blessed with a little wisdom and a little courage and considerable good luck), here is a record of such a journey and such a traveler. The period is the ancient time between t ...

Down and Out in Paris and London

Sun, 8 Jul 2012 6:17:40 PST

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What was a nice Eton boy like Eric Blair doing in scummy slums instead of being upwardly mobile at Oxford or Cambridge? Living Down and Out in Paris and London, repudiating respectable imperialist society, and reinventing himself as George Orwell. His 1933 debut book (ostensibly a novel, but overwhelmingly autobiographical) was rejected by that elitist publisher T.S. Eliot, perhaps because its c ...

Cymbeline

Fri, 6 Jul 2012 12:14:29 PST

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FOLGER Shakespeare Library The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies. Each edition includes: Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play Scene-by-scene plot summaries A key to famous lines and phrases An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language An essa ...

Coming Up for Air

Thu, 5 Jul 2012 23:30:17 PST

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COMING UP FOR AIR is about coping. Orwell hooks a character from among the struggling middle class and, close-up, lets us watch him wiggle. George (Tubby) Bowling is a "fat, middle-aged bloke with false teeth and a red face." He sells insurance, a task at which he grimly excels. The father of two ingrates and husband to a slattern, he dutifully makes mortgage payments on their dreary home. As the ...

Emma

Thu, 5 Jul 2012 14:53:16 PST

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The definitive text of Jane Austen's penetrating and sparkling satire, "Emma", this "Penguin Classics Edition" includes an introduction by Fiona Stafford. Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, rich - and fiercely independent - is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when ...

Richard II

Tue, 3 Jul 2012 7:47:42 PST

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Each edition includes: - Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play - Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play - Scene-by-scene plot summaries - A key to famous lines and phrases - An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language - An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play - Illustratio ...

Mythology

Sun, 1 Jul 2012 5:04:30 PST

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MONSTERS, MORTALS, GODS, AND WARRIORS For over fifty years readers have chosen this book above all others to discover the thrilling, enchanting, and fascinating world of Western mythology. From Odysseus's adventure-filled journey to the Norse god Odin's effort to postpone the final day of doom, Edith Hamilton's classic collection not only retells these stories with brilliant clarity but shows u ...

The War of the Worlds (Barnes and Noble Classics Series)

Sun, 1 Jul 2012 4:52:16 PST

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The War of the Worlds, by HG Wells, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the ...

A Grief Observed

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 9:04:10 PST

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Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moments," "A grief observed" is C.S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss.

The Great Divorce

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 2:24:59 PST

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C. S. Lewis takes us on a profound journey through both heaven and hell in this engaging allegorical tale. Using his extraordinary descriptive powers, Lewis introduces us to supernatural beings who will change the way we think about good and evil.

Henry V

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:57:39 PST

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No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Henry V on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No Fear Shakespeare contains The complete text of the original playA line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday languageA complete list of characters with descriptionsPlenty of helpful commentary

The Brothers Karamazov

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 3:32:33 PST

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Burmese Days

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 3:29:14 PST

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Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, "Burmese Days" describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when 'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally only a 'subject' people, an inferior people with black faces'. Against the prevailing orthodoxy, Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Dr Veraswami, a black enthusiast for Empire. T ...

King Lear

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:47:27 PST

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No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of King Lear on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No Fear Shakespeare contains The complete text of the original playA line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday languageA complete list of characters with descriptionsPlenty of helpful commentary

True Grit

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 8:43:41 PST

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Meroff tells the inspiring true adventures of nine ordinary women both married and single who are making a difference in such places as Tajikistan India ...

Henry IV, part 2

Mon, 28 May 2012 6:04:46 PST

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This edition presents a new look at Henry IV Part 2 in accordance with the work of the Shakespeare and Schools Project, the national curriculum for English and developments at GCSE and A Level. Cambridge School Shakespeare considers the play as theatre and the text as script, enabling pupils to inhabit the imaginative world of the play in an accessible, meaningful and creative way.

Henry IV, Part 1

Mon, 28 May 2012 6:04:38 PST

Catch-22

Fri, 25 May 2012 0:15:56 PST

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Catch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term to the dictionary.At the heart of Catch-22 resides the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his skin from the horrible chances of war. His efforts are perfectly understandable because as he fu ...

Othello

Thu, 24 May 2012 5:57:15 PST

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An international team of scholars offers: - modernised, easily accessible texts - ample but unobtrusive academic guidance - attention to the theatrical qualities of each play and its stage history - informative illustations, including reconstructions of early performances

Slaughterhouse-Five

Wed, 23 May 2012 0:52:56 PST

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Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.

Screwtape Letters

Wed, 16 May 2012 3:26:56 PST

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The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Tue, 15 May 2012 23:11:24 PST

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The Abolition of Man

Fri, 11 May 2012 23:06:26 PST

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C. S. Lewis sets out to persuade his audience of the importance and relevance of universal values such as courage and honor in contemporary society.

The Great Gatsby

Fri, 11 May 2012 21:25:25 PST

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The Road to Wigan Pier

Mon, 7 May 2012 11:16:30 PST

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A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, "The Road to Wigan Pier" is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. His graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and gr ...

Fences

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 7:26:14 PST

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The Old Man and the Sea

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:04:32 PST

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Death of a Salesman

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:04:42 PST

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Crazy Love

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 7:15:19 PST

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God is love. Crazy, relentless, all-powerful love. This sounds crazy to some: There's a God, all-powerful and all-knowing, and He loves you. And not just any kind of love, this is the I-love-you-so-much-I'll-send-my- Son-to-die-on-a-cross-to-save-you kind of love. And maybe it is crazy. Crazy in all the right ways. Think about it. God, the Creator of everything -- from nitrogen to pine needles; ...

Blood Meridian

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 1:14:31 PST

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An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridianbrilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west." Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indi ...

A Farewell to Arms

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:06:31 PST

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In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A Farewell to Arms. In an unforgettable depiction of war, Hemingway recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteers and the men and women he encounters along the way with conviction and bru ...

All Quiet on the Western Front

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:23:13 PST

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The Plague

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:16:30 PST

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A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.

Homage to Catalonia

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 3:25:21 PST

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In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fascists. This famous account describes the war and Orwell’s experiences. Introduction by Lionel Trilling.

The Sun Also Rises

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 2:14:46 PST

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