Educational: First / native language: School editions of literature texts
B Jain Publishers Pvt Ltd Tempest
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Gulliver Books Many Troubles of Andy Russell
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Random House USA Inc The Cat in the Hat Cooking with the Cat Dr. Seuss
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Random House USA Inc The Cay
Book SynopsisFor fans of Hatchet and Island of the Blue Dolphins comes Theodore Taylor’s classic bestseller and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner, The Cay. Phillip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of Curaçao. War has always been a game to him, and he’s eager to glimpse it firsthand–until the freighter he and his mother are traveling to the United States on is torpedoed. When Phillip comes to, he is on a small raft in the middle of the sea. Besides Stew Cat, his only companion is an old West Indian, Timothy. Phillip remembers his mother’s warning about black people: “They are different, and they live differently.” But by the time the castaways arrive on a small island, Phillip’s head injury has made him blind and dependent on Timothy.“Mr. Taylor has provided an exciting story…The idea that all humanity would benefit from this spec
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Houghton Mifflin Jack Tales Folk Tales from the Southern
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Putnam Publishing Group,U.S. 26 Fairmount Avenue
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Candlewick Press,U.S. Owl Babies
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Candlewick Press,U.S. Owl Babies
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African Books Collective Coming of the Dry Season Zph Writers
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Kiwi Publications Romeo Juliet 2 Easy Read Shakespeare
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CreateSpace Romeo and Juliet In Plain and Simple English A Modern Translation and the Original Version
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Golden Books Publishing Company, Inc. Richard Scarrys a Day at the Fire Station
Book SynopsisDrippy and Sticky the house painters have come to paint the Busytown Fire Station. But with Smokey and the other brave firefighters rushing in and out to rescue people, there are quite a few wet paint mishaps! Filled with information about firefighters and Scarry's sense of fun, this book is sure to delight young readers everywhere.
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Heinemann Educational Books Harriets Daughter Caribbean Writers Series
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Hodder Education Miguel Street Caribbean Writers Series
Book SynopsisLife in Trinidad is described through the eyes of a "street rab" in Miguel Street. The happy-go-lucky community abounds in eccentric characters.
£16.50
Pearson Education Limited Im the King of the Castle
Book Synopsis"Hooper had known, from the very first moment he had looked into Kingshaw’s face, that it would all be easy, that he would always be able to make him afraid.” This tragic tale of two isolated children explores the nature of cruelty and the power of evil.
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Pearson Education Limited The Tulip Touch ne
Book SynopsisNobody wants to be around Tulip but her outlandish behaviour doesn't matter to Natalie. At first she finds Tulip exciting and she doesn't care that other people are upset by her pranks. But then Natalie realises that Tulip is going too far.
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Simon & Schuster Ltd Hilda Must Be Dancing
Book SynopsisNone of her jungle friends can find Hilda Hippo a quieter, less disruptive replacement for dancing, her favorite hobby, until Water Buffalo suggests an activity that allows Hilda to express her dance creativity in a new way.
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SteinerBooks, Inc Winter Awake
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The American Clock
Book SynopsisIt is Mr. Miller''s notion, potentially a great one, that the Baums'' story can help tell the story of America itself during that traumatic era.'NEW YORK TIMESWhen the stock market crashes, the once-financially comfortable Baum family lose everything and are forced to leave their lofty home in Manhattan to live with relatives in Brooklyn: how can their pride, purpose and artistic endeavours survive such a sudden and shocking reversal of fortune?A sweeping, hard-hitting look at the Great Depression of the 1930s, The American Clock is a vaudevillian celebration of American resilience and optimism in the face of national crisis, and was performed on Broadway in 1980.This Methuen Drama Student Edition is edited by Jane K. Dominik, with commentary and notes that explore the play''s production history (including excerpts from interviews with designers of the 1980 Broadway production) as well as the dramatic, thematic and academic debates that surround it.Trade ReviewThis panoramic 1980 play about America during the Great Depression [is] described as “a vaudeville” [and] it shows how the nation’s built-in optimism came up against economic reality ... The play, which combines the texture of despair with a residual hope epitomised in the line “a country can’t just die”, shows just how much the 30s shaped Miller’s artistic imagination. ... It shows [Miller's] enduring capacity to capture the state of a troubled nation. -- Michael Billington * Guardian *The piece serves as a warning from history ... but there’s nothing dusty or dutifully clock-watching about it ... [Miller] billed the show as a “vaudeville”, likened it to a mural – and that gives him a means of pushing out across the nation, giving voice to a chorus of bewilderment, as the banks fail, the bailiffs call, the crops rot, and the air hangs heavy with resentment and revolutionary fervour. Yet swimming amid the tide of acrimony, there’s stoical humour, resilient American optimism and even young romantic love ... [The play feels] eerily up to-the-moment and [serves] as an invaluable reminder of how an economic shock can change a country forever. -- Dominic Cavendish * Daily Telegraph *No 20th-century playwright was more gifted at depicting the downsides of the American dream than Arthur Miller -- Dominic Maxwell * The Times *Frequently magnificent and ... also ... nauseatingly prescient. [The play's] kaleidoscopic vision of an advanced society sleepwalking into an essentially self-inflicted disaster is certainly painfully relevant to Britain’s current interests. ...It’s a powerful, poignant and frequently enlightening journey ... This strange, flawed forgotten play is the most relevant piece of political theatre in town. -- Andrzej Lukowski * Time Out *Table of ContentsCHRONOLOGY COMMENTARY Historical, social and cultural contexts Genre and themes Play as performance Production history Academic debate Behind the scenes Further study PLAY TEXT NOTES
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Hodder Education Plays for Today: With CSEC Study Guide
Book SynopsisTi-Jean and his Brothers was Derek Walcott's first venture into musical plays and is still his most popular work. A lilting St Lucian folk-tale, it tells the story of a poor family who dwell on the edge of a magical forest haunted by the devil's spirits. The brilliance of Walcott's writing draws us into the realms of fantasy where the actual and the miraculous collide.Dennis Scott's An Echo in the Bone is set during a traditional Nine-Night Ceremony held to honour the spirit of the dead. Shattering sequential time in a series of dreamlike episodes the play takes us back to the time of plantations and slavery - and the savage murder of the white estate owner. Who killed Mr. Charles? The answers lie deep in the racial memory, they 'echo in the bone'.The giddy atmosphere of carnival is the setting for Errol Hill's Man Better Man, a rumbustious, colourful comedy musical about stickfighters. With dance and song the battling troubadours and the calypsonian weave a tale of braver, superstition and fraudulence. When first performed the Times described it as 'a blazing electrifying feast of rhythm and colour'.
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The Gresham Publishing Co. Ltd Othello - The Student's Shakespeare
Book SynopsisOthello is one of the most powerful of Shakespeare's tragedies. It is a thrilling drama about love and hate, trust and betrayal, jealousy and revenge. With its complex themes, and compelling language, it speaks directly to today's audiences and sparks vigorous debate. This new edition includes the complete text with explanatory notes and a full introduction that describes the setting, summarises the plot and profiles the main characters. It discusses Shakespeare's language and the play's themes, and it gives typical essay and test questions to help students prepare for exams. Angela Sheehan, who introduces the play, is a Shakespeare enthusiast. She has had a distinguished career editing encyclopedias, educational texts and reference books for children, and published The Best-Loved Plays of Shakespeare and the Shakespeare for Everyone series.Table of ContentsIntroduction The republic of Venice The people of Venice Venice at War The Story of Othello and plot outline The play's characters : Othello; Desdemona; Iago; Emilia; Cassio; Roderigo; Brabantia Themes and Language: Jealousy; Racism and Sexism; Wives and daughters; Shakespeare's Language EXAMINING THE PLAY
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Zero to Ten Julius Caesar: Shakespeare for Everyone
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Gordon and Breach The Simpleton
Book SynopsisFirst Published in 2000. The Simpleton, which was written in 1968 and could not be performed for political reasons, saw the light of day only in 1994. Its complex games of power and identity, played out among a group of actors, remain entirely contemporary today. Set in a theatre, The Simpleton, in the age-old tradition of Russian drama, tackles the timeless problems of personal freedom and inner independence. It is anything but a simple play with its complicated chameleon-like nature new levels of reality continually moving in to push their predecessors out of the way. The mystification begins at the outset with the future arsonist, the Fop, prowling through the gall grumbling about the presence of spectators... The Simpleton is unlike anything else that was being written in the Soviet Union at the time and aside from its searing thematic content, it is astonishingly inventive in its theatricality.
£120.00
Gordon and Breach Your Murderer
Book SynopsisFrom Russia comes this ironic, satirical, multi-layered, modern pop-art parable by Vassily Aksyonov. Your Murderer is a richly grotesque hodgepodge of different linguistic levels that defies all rules and mixes a powerful cocktail out of traditional slogans, invented obscentities, foreign words and phrases, terminology from sports and heavy drinking, and pure nonsense. Daniel Gerould is Lucille Lortel Distinguished Professor of Theater and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York. He is the Editor of Slavic and East European Performance and of harwood academic publishers's Polish and East European Theater Archive series. Your Murderer comes from Russia and is an ironic, satirical, multi-layered, modern pop-art parable - richly grotesque and on different linguistic levels. that defies all rules, mixing a powerful cocktail out of traditional slogans, invented obscentities, foreign words and phrases, terminology from sports and heavy drinking, and pure nonsense.
£102.00
Facts On File Inc Critical Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Book SynopsisOffers critical entries on Hawthorne's novels, short stories, travel writing, criticism, and other works, as well as portraits of characters, including Hester Prynne and Roger Chillingworth. This reference also provides entries on Hawthorne's family, friends - ranging from Herman Melville to President Franklin Pierce - publishers, and critics.
£60.00
Chelsea House Publishers F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: New Edition
Book SynopsisSelf-made millionaire Jay Gatsby epitomizes the decadence of the 1920s Jazz Age in this tale of mobility and decline, told with detached curiosity by his neighbor and confidant Nick Carraway. This new edition offers a selection of contemporary critical commentary on this classic American novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Also in this volume is an introductory essay by Yale literature professor Harold Bloom, a bibliography, a chronology of Fitzgerald's life, and an index for quick reference.
£38.21
Taylor & Francis Short Plays with Great Roles for Women
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Equestrian Drama
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Equestrian Drama
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Taylor & Francis Application of the Michael Chekhov Technique to Shakespeares Sonnets Soliloquies and Monologues
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Taylor & Francis The SelfCentred Art
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The SelfCentred Art
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Staging Detection
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Staging Detection
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Taylor & Francis Brecht Sourcebook A Critical Anthology Worlds of Performance
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Taylor & Francis A Dream An Excursion to the Museum Routledge Harwood Polish East European Theatre Archive 11 Routledge Harwood Polish East European Theatre Archive S
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Taylor & Francis Award Monologues for Men
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Taylor & Francis Award Monologues for Men
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Taylor & Francis Shakespeares Dramatic Heritage Collected Studies in Mediaeval Tudor and Shakespearean Drama Routledge Library Editions
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Drama Anthology
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Taylor & Francis Jacobean Public Theatre
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Taylor & Francis A Dream
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Baby Beebee Bird
Book Synopsis ''Hooray for the return of the baby beebee bird'' – Kirkus Reviews. It''s night time at the zoo, and all the animals are wide awake. The new baby beebee bird is keeping everyone up with his happy night song. Will they ever get some sleep? In this newly enlarged and full–colour edition, Diane Redfield Massie''s classic story has been lovingly re–illustrated by the award–winning Steven Kellogg, creating a captivating bedtime story that is just as much fun as a visit to the zoo! Ages 3–6
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HarperCollins Fire Truck
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Magic Toyshop
Book SynopsisFrom the master of the literary supernatural and author of The Bloody Chamber, a startling tale of the redemptive power of physical and emotional love One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered. Forced to leave the comfortable home of her childhood, she is sent to London to live with relatives she has never met: Aunt Margaret, beautiful and speechless, and her brothers, Francie, whose graceful music belies his clumsy nature, and the volatile Finn, who kisses Melanie in the ruins of the pleasure gardens. And brooding Uncle Philip loves only the life-sized wooden puppets he creates in his toyshop. This classic gothic novel established Angela Carter as one of our most imaginative writers and augurs the themes of her later creative work.
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Penguin Random House Children's UK The Well Davids Story Logan Family Saga
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Penguin Young Readers Group The Westing Game Revised Edition
Book SynopsisA Newbery Medal WinnerFor over thirty-five years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite. This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are invited to the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. They could become millionaires-it all depends on how they play the tricky and dangerous Westing game, a game involving blizzards, burglaries, and bombings! Ellen Raskin has created a remarkable cast of characters in a puzzle-knotted, word-twisting plot filled with humor, intrigue, and suspense. Winner of the Newbery Medal Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award An ALA Notable Book A School Library Journal One Hundred Books That Shaped the CenturyA supersharp mystery...confoundingly clever, and very funny. —Booklist, starred review Great fun for those who enjoy illusion, word play, or sleight of hand.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Dirty Beasts
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