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William Mowat
The 30 years following The Revolutionary War in North America had ushered in relative peace and prosperity across the continent. In the year 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte and his conquest of…
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In the picturesque town of Banff, nestled amidst the towering Rocky Mountains, two teenage sisters travel into the surrounding national park filled with excitement and curiosity. "Lucky To Say Goodbye"…
William Thackeray
Word count 32,940 Read at a comfortable level with word count and CEFR level on every cover Illustrations, photos, and diagrams support comprehension Activities build language skills and check understanding…
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William Shakespeare
Newly revised, this edition of The Tempest features a new Overview by Sylvan Barnett, former chairman of the English Department of Tufts University, an updated bibliography, suggested references, and stage…
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Part of the Graphic Shakespeare series, this title is an ideal introduction to Shakespeare’s plays. It also includes a portrait gallery of key characters.
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These updated editions of classic plays feature new cover art along with the complete text of each work, full explanatory notes, scene-by-scene plot summaries, a key to famous lines and…
With detailed notes from the world’s leading center for Shakespeare studies. –Cover.
The full text of Shakespeare’s classic play.
With detailed notes from the world’s leading center for Shakespeare studies –Cover.
This edition of one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies features a freshly edited text of the play, scene-by-scene explanatory notes, a key to famous lines and phrases, and much more…
Includes detailed explanatory notes –Spine.
Frequently reprinted with these same ISBNs but with slightly differing bibliographical details.
This edition includes freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play, with full explanatory notes, scene-by-scene plot summaries, and a key to famous lines and…
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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The authoritative edition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, and Twelfth Night from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students…
Henry IV, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597. It is the second of Shakespeare’s tetralogy that deals with…
Titus, a model Roman, has led twenty-one of his twenty-five sons to death in Rome’s wars; he stabs another son to death for what he views as disloyalty to Rome…
Coriolanus is the playwright’s last tragedy, telling of Caius Marcius, a proud Roman general who gains the name Coriolanus when he captures the town of Corioli in battle against the…
At head of title: Folger Shakespeare Library
A revised edition of this play.
This newly revised edition of Shakespeare’s vision of the Trojan War–which reveals the love between Troilus, a prince of Troy, and Cressida, the daughter of a Trojan traitor–includes a special…
The portrait of a monarchy in crisis, this historical drama concerns the ruler’s efforts to secure a divorce in order to marry an enchanting courtesan and produce a male heir.
The classic play about an aging king who leans on war hero Sir John Falstaff rather than his unreliable son and heir when rebels threaten the crown is accompanied by…
First Washington Square Press New Folger Library Trade Paperback ed. July 2006 –T.p. verso.
These mass market editions of six of Shakespeare’s plays feature freshly edited text based on the best early printed versions of each play, full explanatory notes, scene-by-scene plot summaries, a…
Previous edition: 2009. First published in 1995 by Washington Square Press. Previous editions titled The life of Henry V.
With detailed notes from the World’s Leading Center for Shakespeare Studies –Cover.
Talks about the rotund hero-villain, Sir John Falstaff. This is a play written, history tells us, for Queen Elizabeth I, who had enjoyed the character in Henry IV .
This translation dives deep into the joy of the madcap bawdiness, love at first sight, reunions, and happily-ever-afters of this slapstick play; reinterpreting the metaphor, antiquated slang, and double and…
Set in ancient Britain, the story of a king (Cymbeline), his daughter Imogen and his two lost sons Guiderius and Arviragus.
At head of title: Folger Shakespeare Library.
Features a duke who is so anxious about the decline in the moral quality of his subjects’ lives that he temporarily removes himself from the government of his city-state and…
Adapted stories with contemporary illustrations to introduce classical literature to a wider audience.
One of Shakespeare’s most thought-provoking comedies in which highborn Lord Bertram learns humility and the true worth of his wife, is now newly revised with a special Introduction by Sylvan…
An encounter between the contemporary and the iconic, this translation brings the play to life, illuminating Shakespeare’s text, untangling syntax, and bringing forth the poetry of the verse as audiences…
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