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by Jodi Clark (Author)"It's cardiomyopathy, and you need a heart transplant." The doctor's diagnosis stabbed her like a dagger. It seemed impossible for 26-year-old Jessica, who was healthy and athletic, to have been diagnosed with such a severe disease and having her health take a steep decline because of it. So bittersweet, she thought, to have been granted such an incredible, selfless gift but at the expense of her father. After twenty-six years of being estranged, they had finally formed ...

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by A. E. Housman (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, repro...

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by Oscar Wilde (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reprodu...

An Old Man's Museum Under Construction - Paperback

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by Richard Leonard (Author)There's no available information at this time. Author will provide once information is available. Number of Pages: 156 Dimensions: 0.36 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 25, 2022

Winter: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau - Paperback

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by Henry David Thoreau (Author), Harrison Gray Otis Blake (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work i...

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by Eugene O'Neill (Author), Stewart Kidd (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important e...

Le Claperman; L'Âne d'or. By Alexis Piron - Paperback

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by Derek Connon (Editor)Alexis Piron was a significant figure in France in the first part of the eighteenth century and his twenty or so opéras-comiques include some of the finest works in the genre. The two plays included in this edition are among Piron's best, and have in common the fact that they make use of pre-existing sources, although these are very different in kind, being, on the one hand, a short and obscure text made available by a group of writers working in the Netherlands but wr...

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by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (Author), Georg Witkowski (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is ...

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by Gaetano Donizetti (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, r...

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by Richard Wagner (Author), Alfred Forman (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enou...

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by Mark Twain (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduc...

Las Paginas Sueltas de Aida Figuereo - Paperback

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by Aida Figuereo (Author)Las Paguinas sueltas de Aida Figuereo es una historia de redencion, donde podemos ver la historia de como en las mas dificiles cituaciones se puede salir adelante y se puede llegar a ser feliz. una historia donde la razon tiene diferentes puntos de vista y la verdad canbia todos los dias. Number of Pages: 264 Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: October 24, 2022

Twice upon a Salisbury Stage: the story of Salisbury Playhouse and its two theatres, 1945-2000 - Paperback

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by Arthur Millie (Author)This is the story of Salisbury Playhouse and its two theatres. In 1869 the Primitive Methodists built a new chapel in Fisherton Street which eventually became the Playhouse, and in 1976 a new Playhouse was built in Malthouse Lane. However, this story is not just about worshippers and theatrical people, it is also about soldiers and cinema audiences, of committees and councils, of theatregoers and critics, of fundraisers and builders, of success and failure, of laughte...

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by Meanna Williams (Author)Sasha Ann Taylor is a fifteen-year-old, Black girl living the opposite life of that of any normal kid-especially, after witnessing countless, undeserving deaths in Georgia, two of them having been committed by her own brother. After moving to Florida, Sasha is forced to navigate around the roots of her elongated two-year trauma, all while trying to grapple with the disappearance of her estranged brother. However, with the help of her new and unconventional friendshi...

Six Plays of the Yiddish Theatre - Paperback

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by Sholem Asch Peretz Hirschbein Pinski (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough...

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Misanthropy in the Age of Reason - Hardcover

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by Joseph Harris (Author)Ever since Timon of Athens shunned his fellow-countrymen and went to live out in the wilderness, the misanthrope has proved to be a fascinating but troubling figure for writers and thinkers. This comparative study brings together a range of material from various genres, periods, and countries to explore the developing status of misanthropy in the European literary and intellectual imagination from the late Renaissance to the dawn of Romanticism. During this period, th...

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by Jeffery Battle (Author)Who am I, Forrest Gump? The Aerospace Professor's autobiography is provocative and a compilation of dramatic, emotional, and riveting journeys from the author's early childhood through maturity. With a small amount of imagination, the autobiography resembles the life of a Tom Hanks movie character like Forrest Gump. Find out more. Despite the severity of any particular experience, The Aerospace Professor's direct and indirect associations served as sources of strengt...

Songs of the Glens of Antrim - Paperback

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by Moira O'Neill (Author)The poems in "Songs of The Glens of Antrim" by Moiré O'Neill, were, in her own words, written 'by a Glens woman in the dialect of the Glens, and chiefly for the pleasure of other Glens-people'. They conjure up a world now gone and also places that have remained, and are now enriched by the memories of by-gone people and times. Number of Pages: 74 Dimensions: 0.15 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN Publication Date: June 25, 2013

La Calprenede's Romances and the Restoration Drama - Hardcover

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by Herbert Wynford Hill (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved...

Queering Translation History: Shakespeare's Sonnets in Czech and Slovak Transformations - Paperback

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by Eva Spisiaková (Author)This innovative work challenges normative binaries in contemporary translation studies and applies frameworks from queer historiography to the discipline in order to explore shifting perceptions of same-sex love and desire in translations and retranslations of William Shakespeare's Sonnets.The book brings together perspectives from poststructuralism, queer theory, and translation history to set the stage for an in-depth exploration of a series of retranslations of th...

Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos: Person, Audience, Language - Paperback

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by Jonathan P. a. Sell (Author)Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos: Person, Audience, Language breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for answers to basic questions regarding the creation, experience, aesthetics and philosophy of Shakespearean sublimity. More specifically, it explores how Shakespeare generates experiences of sublime pathos, for which audiences have been prepared by the sublime ethos described in the companion volume, Shakespeare...

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by Molière (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced,...

Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies - Paperback

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by Pamela M. King (Author), Alexandra F. Johnston (Editor)This volume brings together nineteen important articles by Pamela M. King, one of the foremost British scholars working on Early English Drama. Unique to this collection are five articles on the 'living' traditions of performances in Spain, discussing their origins and the modes of production that are used. Several articles use modern literary theory on aspects of early drama, whilst others consider drama in the context of late medieva...

Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire: Volume II: Poetry, Philosophy and Politics - Paperback

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by Jonathan Locke Hart (Author)Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire: 　 Poetry, Philosophy and Politics is the second volume of this study and builds on the first, which concentrated on related matters, including geography and language. In both volumes, a key focus is close analysis of the text and an attention to Shakespeare's use of signs, verbal and visual, to represent the world in poetry and prose, in dramatic and non-dramatic work as well as some of the contexts before, during and aft...

The Complete Opera Book: The Stories Of The Operas, Together With 400 Of The Leading Airs And Motives In Musical Notation - Hardcover

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by Gustav Kobbé (Author), Katharine Wright (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important eno...

The Garden of Eloquence, Etc. - Scholar's Choice Edition - Paperback

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by Henry Peacham (Author) This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public do...

The Works of John Collier-Tim Bobbin-In Prose and Verse. Edited, with a Life of the Author, by Lieut.-Colonel Henry Fishwick. - Scholar's Choice Editi - Paperback

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by John Collier (Author), Henry Fishwick (Author) This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This ...

Agnes de Castro, a Tragedy ... Written by a Young Lady [i.E. Catherine Trotter, Afterwards Cockburn]. - Scholar's Choice Edition - Paperback

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by Inez De Castro (Author), Catharine Trotter (Author) This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. ...

The Treasure Ship and other Full-Length Plays: The Glen is Mine, The Treasure Ship, The Lifting, The Inn of Adventure, and Heather Gentry - Paperback

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by John Brandane (Author)1923 saw the performance of what is probably his most important full length play, The Glen is Mine. This work has good characterisation and a strong theme, the future of the Highlands: are industry and progress preferable to the destruction of the old Highland way of life? The ending, however, shies away from a bold resolution and opts for a safer, more sentimental conclusion. The romantic comedy The Treasure Ship (1924) with its background of the salvaging of treasur...

Rory Aforesaid and other One-Act Plays: Glenforsa, The Change-House, Rory Aforesaid, The Happy War, The Spanish Galleon, and Man of Uz - Paperback

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by John Brandane (Author), Alec Wilson Yuill (With)John Brandane (the pen name for Dr John MacIntyre) was arguably Scotland's best known resident dramatist in the 1920s before the emergence of that other great doctor/dramatist James Bridie (O.H. Mavor).When he returned to live in Glasgow he was to become deeply involved in the city's theatrical life. He renewed his acquaintance with A. W. Yuill and together they pushed the cause for a native Scottish drama and began writing for the Scottish N...

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by Tanya Denise (Author), Tanya DeFreitas (Author)"How do you keep two souls apart when they felt so familiar from the very start?" You can't. They'll find their way back to one another. She thought it was over; he knew that it wasn't. When two lovers reconnect after years apart, the connection that seemed to end is only reignited. She ran from him, uncertain and unsure of his intentions and afraid of her own feelings, only to find herself right back where she started...in his arms. The seque...