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Essays: (Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson) - Paperback

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by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Author)Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882). -- Philosopher, was b. at Boston, Massachusetts. His f. was a minister there, who had become a Unitarian, and who d. in 1811, leaving a widow with six children, of whom Ralph, then aged 8, was the second. Mrs. E. was, however, a woman of energy, and by means of taking boarders managed to give all her sons a good education. E. entered Harvard in 1817 and, after passing through the usual course there, studied for the ministry, to ...

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by Aubrey Stewart (Translator), Plutarch (Author)This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them. Number of Pages: 192 Dimensions: 0.41 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: April 07, 2014

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by Roses (Author)This is a true story of how one small dog with a heart so pure; changed one small girls' life of self destruction to one filled with benevolent glory. Roses, born into a life of alcoholism and abuse, received a small dog which became her safe haven. In this dog she saw God's pure love. With the seed of God's love planted in her heart, Roses grows into a strong self assured woman who is able to share her story and her life with other lost souls through foster parenting and ado...

The Theatre Of The Greeks: A Treatise On The History And Exhibition Of The Greek Drama - Paperback

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by John William Donaldson (Author)This Is A New Release Of The Original 1849 Edition. Number of Pages: 450 Dimensions: 0.91 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: March 30, 2014

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by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (Author)This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition. Number of Pages: 612 Dimensions: 1.24 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: March 30, 2014

Reborn: Through the Innocence Eyes - Hardcover

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by Cartsand Chau (Author) Number of Pages: 214 Dimensions: 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 19, 2014

Reborn: Through the Innocence Eyes - Paperback

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by Cartsand Chau (Author) Number of Pages: 214 Dimensions: 0.49 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 19, 2014

Strange Times: Tales From American Strippers - Paperback

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by Elle Stanger (Author)Stories collected from a dozen women from across the country, Strange Times will open your eyes to a stripper's lives on the other side of the stage. For each thrill, there is shock. For each victory, there is shame. The unmatched adrenaline rush of thrilling a hundred strangers while dancing on stage has only been felt by those brave enough to risk their everything. I've opened my eyes, my mind and my legs. And we are proud. When my knees ache, when my back cracks, wh...

The Gay Slayer: The Life of Serial Killer Colin Ireland - Paperback

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by Fergus Mason (Author)When it comes to serial killers in England, there are few as brutal as Colin Ireland. Known as "The Gay Slayer," Ireland preyed on homosexual men who were into sadomasochism--so when he began to restrain them, they thought it was just a game. With page-turning suspense, this book examines the motives and tactics of the man some said was one of the most organized serial killers who ever lived. Number of Pages: 114 Dimensions: 0.24 x 7.99 x 5 IN Publication Date: July 09...

Tremaine: When A Man's Fed Up - Paperback

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by La'tonya D. West (Author)After all that has happened in his hometown of Boykins, VA. Tre is ready to move on and start fresh. He's had more than enough of the constant drama and chaos that Boykins seems to be filled with. So in an effort to change and become a better man he relocates to Jordan City, VA but his baby mama Kisha is not to thrill with the fact that she's been left behind. Feeling like he owes her for destroying their family, she will do everything in her power to insure that t...

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by Ruben Fresneda (Illustrator), Oscar Wilde (Author)The Critic as Artist is an essay by Oscar Wilde, containing the most extensive statements of his aesthetic philosophy. A dialogue in two parts, it is by far the longest one included in his collection of essays titled Intentions published in May 1891. The Critic as Artist is a significantly revised version of articles that first appeared in the July and September issues of The Nineteenth Century, originally entitled The True Function and Val...

The Servant of Two Masters: A Comedy - Paperback

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by B. K. De Fabris (Editor), Carlo Goldoni (Author)The Servant of Two Masters is one of Goldoni's earliest plays. At the center of this madcap comedy is Truffaldino, the scheming - and perpetually hungry - servant who concocts a zany scheme to double his wages and his meals by serving two masters at once. The play was written in 1743 at the request of the actor Sacchi, who suggested the subject and himself played the part of Truffaldino. The Italian theatre of that day was dominated by the im...

The History of Dentistry: Part Four: The Root Cause - Paperback

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by Art Mayers (Author)The play deals with life as seen through the eyes of an Austrian dentist who resorts to practicing ventriloquism on his patients having to deal with a complaining wife, an anxious teenage daughter and a patient only interested in nitrous oxide.Author BiographyArt Mayers is the author of a dozen plays including five musicals. He is an actor, bass player, videographer and soccer referee living in Maine and Mexico. Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions: 0.1 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Public...

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by Ben Johnson (Author)Play script, including biographical notes, textual details and information about the staging of the play.Author BiographyThe editor, Elizabeth Cook, is the author of the fiction "Achilles "(Methuen), editor of Dekker and Middleton's "The Roaring Girl "for the New Mermaids and of the Oxford Authors' "John Keats." She has lectured at the universities of Essex and Leeds. Number of Pages: 282 Dimensions: 0.59 x 9.69 x 7.44 IN Publication Date: September 13, 2014

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by Deirdre Bair (Author)In the first biography of Samuel Beckett, Deirdre Bair chronicles Beckett's tumultuous relationship with his family, the psychosomatic illnesses that often kept him from writing, and the autobiographical strains of his work. In a remarkable literary biography, Dierdre Bair sheds light on Nobel Prizewinning novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett in one of the most important and fascinating reads about his life. From his upper-middle-class Irish childhood, his early year...

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by Lope De Vega (Author)"Rimas", de Lope de Vega. Lope de Vega fue uno de los m s importantes poetas y dramaturgos del Siglo de Oro espa ol (1562-1635) Number of Pages: 120 Dimensions: 0.25 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: October 07, 2014

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by George Gordon Byron 1788- (Author), Vicente Wenceslao Querol (Translator)"Manfredo", de Lord Byron.Lord Byron fue un poeta ingl s considerado uno de los escritores m s vers tiles e importantes del Romanticismo (1788-1824) Number of Pages: 44 Dimensions: 0.09 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: October 07, 2014

Goethe's Faust: First Part of the Tragedy with 55 Illustrations by Famous Artists of the 19th Century - Paperback

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by Charles T. Brooks (Translator), Eug Delacroix (Illustrator), Tony Johannot (Illustrator)Translated text with 55 illustrations Buy the printed book and get the Amazon Kindle e-book for free.GoetheAuthor BiographyJohann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is a German poet genius who created a work of incomparable richness and diversity. He is one of the greatest European writers of all time. Goethe was characterized of both as a poet, as well as a playwright, short story writer, critic and as a ...

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by Ian Kellgren (Author), Pelham McMahon (Author)This is a musical biography of Vera Lynn, originally written for the 1995 50th anniversary of the end of WW2. Devised to be staged with an apparently real on-stage orchestra composed of the performers and with spoken sections enacted centre front stage. All or any additional music coming from the keyboard set discretely rear stage. The use of large scale rear screen Newsreel film would greatly add to the effect of the historical details. Re-iss...

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by Bryan Washington (Author)Ian James Foster sets out from the doldrums of Naptown to find fame and fortune in the Big Apple, but found himself singing The Roomie Do Me Blues instead. Number of Pages: 422 Dimensions: 0.86 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: September 26, 2014

7 días juntos.: Tu pareja agradecerá que lo leas. - Paperback

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by Irving Arreguin Enciso (Author)La naturaleza juega su papel, encerrando a dos completos extra os, alejados del bullicio y de toda distracci n. De una mala racha puedes aprovecharte, s lo es cuesti n de arriesgarte Puedes enamorarte de un extra o en 7 d as?Lujuria, pasi n, torrentes de sudor y explosiones er ticas correr n a trav s de cuatro paredes. Pero, Podr n regresar a sus vidas cotidianas? Y, si lo hacen Seguir n juntos? Susana y Roberto llevar n el sexo al m ximo, en s lo 7 d as.....

By Order Of The State: (Four Days In the Lives of...) - Paperback

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by Raymond Clark (Author)By Order of the State is a thriller set in Berlin in 1939. It involves the occupants of a small block of flats and shows how their lives are entwined by the happenings of the State. it will feature, in a period of four days, Hope, fear, death, Arrest, the Coming of Age of young people, the imagination of the old and the power of the State.Author BiographyRaymond Clark was born, one of eight children in a mining village in the North East of England in 1948. He enlisted...

The Script Crypt: Free Film and Tv Scripts for Amateur Producers - Paperback

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by Rod Fisher (Author)This collection will help the aspiring amateur TV or film producer to get past the dreaded task of writing a script. Just grab your camcorder and some friends, your kids or your grandchildren and go Hollywood. The 14 scripts range in difficulty from easy family projects to full length movies. All are free, with no royalties for non-commercial use.Author BiographyRod Fisher enjoys making amateur films and videos with his children, grand children and friends. He has produc...

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by Diana Van Eyk (Author)Follow the stories of Dagmar and Ross: middle aged, newly homeless, and with no apparent options. Invited into a house that appears from the outside to be abandoned, they learn the survival skills needed to live in a society that treats people as disposable. They discover how some have adapted to living in the margins. As they tune in to the voice of Anima Mundi, the soul of our planet, they weave a path through the fabric of their community, exploring themes of pip...

Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton - Paperback

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by John Lahr (Author)This mesmerizing story of playwright and author Joe Orton's brief and remarkable life was named book of the year by Truman Capote and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Patrick White Told with precision and extensive detail, Prick Up Your Ears is the engrossing biography of playwright and novelist Joe Orton. Orton's public career spanned only three years (1964-1967), but his work made a lasting mark on the international stage. From Entertaining Mr. Sloane to his career-making L...

R. U. R.: Rossum's Universal Robots: The Classic Sciene Fiction Play - Paperback

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by Karel Capek (Author)Originally produced on Broadway by The Theatre Guild, R. U. R. is now considered a classic of science fiction. Credited with introducing the word "robot" into the English language, the play is a dramatic and fascinating look into the lives of the scientists who invite and manufacture a working class of robots. Over time, the robots develop beyond the expectations of the scientists and acquire human feelings. They start a revolt, taking over the world, until every human,...

A mere passing shadow: The tragedy of Frederick III, German Emperor - Paperback

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by John Van Der Kiste (Author)A two-act drama based around the illness and death of Frederick III, son-in-law of Queen Victoria, who reigned as German Emperor for only three months in 1888. The other characters include his wife Victoria, German Empress; their son William, who succeeded him as Emperor; Queen Victoria, the Empress's mother; the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII; Prince Bismarck, German Chancellor; and Dr Morell Mackenzie, the British doctor in charge of the case. The title...

The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus - Paperback

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by F. Storr (Translator), Sophocles (Author)Theban plays The Theban plays consist of three plays: Oedipus the King (also called Oedipus Tyrannus or by its Latin title Oedipus Rex), Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone. All three plays concern the fate of Thebes during and after the reign of King Oedipus. They have often been published under a single cover. Sophocles, however, wrote the three plays for separate festival competitions, many years apart. Not only are the Theban plays not a true trilo...

Great Expectations: The 1871 Dramatic Adaptation - Paperback

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by Charles Dickens (Author), W. S. Gilbert (Author)From the master dramatist, W. S. Gilbert, comes the only 19th century dramatic adaptation of Charles Dickens celebrated novel "Great Expectations." Original produced in 1871, the London Times praised Gilbert's effort by claiming the playwright had brought the novel to life with "considerable skill." Today Gilbert's adaptation of the now classic coming-of-age tale is a fascinating look into the era of Victorian theatre with all its melodramati...

Alice in Wonderland: The 1897 American Theatrical Adaptation - Paperback

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by Lewis Carroll (Author), Emily Prime Delafield (Author)Originally written in 1897, Emily Prime Delafield's theatrical version of the Alice stories was the first adaptation to be published by a major publishing house, Dodd Mead and Company. It is also the first adaptation to use a vast majority of Carroll's characters. Written especially to be performed by children, this classic play has stood the test of time and is as appealing and innovative as when it was first written. Number of Pages: ...

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by The Perfect Library (Editor), Leonid Andreyev (Author)"The Seven who were Hanged" from Leonid Andreyev. Russian playwright (1871-1919). Number of Pages: 92 Dimensions: 0.19 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: March 11, 2015

Othello. Shakespeare: Englisch-Deutsch / English-German: Zweisprachig / Bilingual - Paperback

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by Wolf Heinrich Von Baudissin (Translator), William Shakespeare (Author)Shakespeares Trag die Othello zweisprachig im Original und in der deutschen Fassung - Seite f r Seite im Parallelsatz William Shakespeares Othello z hlt zu den bedeutendsten Dramen der Weltliteratur. Seite f r Seite stellt unsere zweisprachige Ausgabe den originalen Text in englischer Sprache mit der textgenauen deutschen bersetzung von Schlegel-Tieck gegen ber. Diese bersetzung gilt nach wie vor als ein deutschsprachi...