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by Voltaire (Author), Fran Ois-Marie Arouet (Author)In his preface to this play Voltaire says: "The learned will not here meet with a faithful narrative of Catiline's conspiracy: a tragedy they very well know is not a history but they will see a true picture of the manners of those times: all that Cicero Catiline Cato and C sar do in this piece is not true but their genius and character are faithfully represented: if we do not there discover the eloquence of Cicero we shall at least find disp...

Soiled Diamond: The Story Continues - Paperback

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by Patricia W. Brower (Author)My struggles are real. My story began with a unique awareness of my own existence in this world. Specifically, when I was reflecting after one of many horrific encounters with my adoptive father, Ralph Repost. Or should I say "Mr. Man" as I was commanded to address him (of course, only in private). I am heartbroken but strengthened when revisiting my journal entries. I am thankful because I'm still here. Unfortunately, most entries record years of pain, anguish, ...

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by Voltaire (Author)This tragedy was produced in 1730. It marks Voltaire's spirit of daring in treating a subject from which Shakespeare shrank as perhaps too painful for representation. When revived during the Revolution it was enthusiastically applauded.Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing our impact on the environment. Number of Pages: 46 Dimensions: 0.25 x 9 x 6 IN Publicatio...

Characters Of Shakespeare'S Plays - Paperback

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by William Hazlitt (Author)"Characters of Shakespeare's Plays" is a collection of essays written by the English literary critic and essayist, William Hazlitt. The book is a critical analysis of the characters in the plays of William Shakespeare, one of the most celebrated playwrights of all time. In the book, Hazlitt explores the psychology and motivations of Shakespeare's characters, examining their personalities, strengths, and flaws. He delves into the complexities of the relationships bet...

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by Mert McMichael (Author)This book is a series of short stories and thought-stirring rhyme and verse. Hopefully, these innermost thoughts will lead you to new and exciting knowledge of unseen love in your life. Love that was always there with no strings attached, just pure love, but you were sightless. You never turned around to see love reaching out to you. Your eyes closed, never open to take a chance on love. Maybe this book will inspire you to look back, even anticipate learning about th...

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by Lenny Williams (Author)This is author Lenny Williams' first book of contemporary romance, and it's done superbly! You'll enjoy lots of banter, impossible situations, and spice! A Rose for Rose is a novel that pulls you into a whirlwind of life's challenges, and it also captures your heart, accompanying you on a journey through timeless love.When a friend challenges a whoremongering playboy to introduce himself to an alluring woman at the mall, the encounter blows him away. Meeting Rose Mor...

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by Autores Varios (Author), Antonio Mediz Bolio (Editor)El Chilam Balam de Chumayel (o el libro del adivino de las cosas ocultas) es una colección de libros escritos en lengua maya, por personajes anónimos, durante los siglos XVI y XVII, en la península de Yucatán.Los libros del Chilam Balam relatan hechos y circunstancias históricas de la civilización maya antes de la conquista española.Durante la época colonial, los misioneros católicos españoles destruyeron la mayor parte de los escritos d...

Economies of Early Modern Drama: Shakespeare, Jonson, and Middleton - Hardcover

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by Anne Enderwitz (Author)This book provides new insights into how theatre responded to changing economic practices and structures. It reviews discourses on household management and commerce to create a rich context for the discussion of socio-economic actions and transactions in Macbeth, Othello, and Timon of Athens, as well as in city comedies by Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton. By approaching discourses on economy and commerce as complementary, the book opens up a diverse field of socio-ec...

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by David Campton (Author)This bewitching little play centers on the animosity between two siblings and Mrs. Meadowsweet's solution to their constant quarrelling and bickering. Mrs. Meadowsweet and her homely guest house, Respite, seem to mellow garrulous Alice, much to sister Fleur's suspicion. All of the guests seem particularly amiable and pleasant - in fact, without a care in the world. Fleur's suspicions are further aroused by their inability to remember even the slightest occurrence from...

BATTERED!!! Inside and Out....But God - Paperback

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by Janice Lammons (Author)BATTERED Inside and Out.....BUT GOD, is not just the title of this book, but it is a collective group of words that can speak to any man, woman, boy or girl who encounter trails in their life. Take a journey with Shine and her friends through growing stages that will teach them some valuable lessons about life. They will make you laugh and you will fall in love with their characters, but most of all you will learn how to approach relationships with caution. Shine m...

Graveyard Society: Book 3 This Was Your Life - Paperback

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by Everett D. Sr. Wair (Author)Graveyard Society 3: This Was Your Life is a story about an African American man who dies and his soul returns back into the real world to confront his stepsister who was rude to his mother and attempted to murder her. This is based on a real-life situation. Number of Pages: 86 Dimensions: 0.18 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: April 11, 2024

Mujeres que Cambiaron al Mundo: Conoce a las Mujeres que Han Dejado una Huella muy Importante en Nuestra Historia - Paperback

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by Hadwin Hartley (Author) Te has preguntado alguna vez quiénes fueron las mentes brillantes detrás de los descubrimientos científicos que han transformado nuestra realidad? Te gustaría conocer las historias de mujeres valientes que desafiaron las barreras de género y revolucionaron el campo de la ciencia? Entonces sigue leyendo..."Era como si se me abriera un mundo nuevo, el mundo de la ciencia, que por fin se me permitía conocer con toda libertad." - Marie CurieLa incorporación de las muje...

The Andromache of Euripides: University of Nebraska Studies No. 25 - Hardcover

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by Keith Morgan Aldrich (Editor)The Andromache of Euripides is a play that tells the story of Andromache, the wife of Hector, who is taken as a slave by Neoptolemus after the fall of Troy. The play explores themes of love, loyalty, and revenge as Andromache struggles to protect her son and maintain her dignity in her new life as a captive. This edition of the play is part of the University of Nebraska Studies series and is edited by Keith Morgan Aldrich. It includes a critical introduction, n...

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by Anton Chekhov (Author), Bernard Lawrence (Adapted by)Glasgow, 1890. Andrew Baird calls upon Flora McNeil to settle a debt owed by her late husband. It is a bank holiday, however: no money Baird is determined and refuses to leave; Flora has to resort to violence. Pistols are brought out for a duel; but first, Baird must teach her to shoot...1 woman, 2 men Number of Pages: 26 Dimensions: 0.05 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: June 09, 2015

Folk Stories From Southern Nigeria, West Africa (1910) - Paperback

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by Elphinstone Dayrell (Author), Andrew Lang (Introduction by)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Page...

Christopher Marlowe - Plays & Poems - Hardcover

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by Christopher Marlowe (Author)Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Number of Pages: 508 Dimensions: 1.25 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 04, 2008

Diary of a Taxi Driver: True Stories From Singapore's Most Educated Cabdriver - Paperback

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by Cai Mingjie Phd (Author)When Dr. Cai Mingjie, a lifelong scientist and university professor, lost his job at a leading research institute in Singapore, his world collapsed around him. Despite having published numerous papers and a Stanford PhD, he could not find a suitable job. Disheartened by the global financial crisis, he became a taxi driver, the Singaporean job of last resort. While driving a cab he jotted down notes about his experiences and posted them on his blog, quickly becoming ...

Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies - Hardcover

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by Kate Hext (Author)Hollywood is haunted by the ghost of playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde. This is the story of his haunting, told for the first time. Set within the rich evolving context of how the American entertainment industry became cinema, and how cinema become the movies, it reveals how Wilde helped to shape Hollywood in the early twentieth century. It begins with his 1882 American tour, and traces the ongoing popularity of his plays and novel in the early twentieth century, after ...

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by Jean Anouilh (Author), Louis Kronenberger (Author)A youth encounters a girl who is delivering flowers to his celebrated diva mother. They fall in love. The youth leaves for war and the diva brings the young wife into the theatre where she is dazzled by the lustre and social gaiety. She embraces it with all her love. Her husband is advised she has been unfaithful. He comes home to find her as merry as ever, and unembarrassed by her new life; she has passed him by and will go on to new glory...

Oh, but He That Endures: Challenges Keeps on Coming - Paperback

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by John S. Morris (Author)This story is about an illusion of a young fellow who happens to be me, who thought that he was the only one who had a mind-boggling problem that was not like his. As it was during my childhood, I had to contend with the reality of being very nearsighted. During that time, I used to think that I was the little Casanova that lived on my street whose ambition was to impress my peers and friends. But when the optometrist prescribed some thick-lens glasses to me to corre...

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by Ruthie Stevens (Author)Award-winning novel that has earned acclaim as a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards and the National Indie Excellence Awards and a semi-finalist in the Chanticleer International Book Awards for Contemporary and Literary Fiction!Introverted young attorney Lilyanna Rivers knew one day she would return to Whimser-the mysterious mansion in the middle-of-nowhere, Texas, where flowers don't grow. She didn't know her return would be with a select group of her...

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by Arthur Miller (Author)Now a Broadway play starring Mark Ruffalo, Tony Shalhoub, Danny DeVito, and Jessica Hecht, Miller's riveting story about family, sacrifice, and the struggle to make peace with the past. Years after an angry breakup, Victor and Walter Franz are reunited by the death of their father. As they sort through his possessions in an old brownstone attic, the memories evoked by his belongings stir up old hostilities. The Price was nominated for two Tony Awards, including best p...

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by Aeschylus Aeschylus (Author)Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides. He is often described as the father of tragedy: our knowledge of the genre begins with his work and our understanding of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences from his surviving plays. Only seven of his estimated seventy to ninety plays have survived into modern times. Fragments of some other plays have su...

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by Aphra Behn (Author)Aphra Behn was a prolific and well established writer but facts about her remain scant and difficult to confirm. What can safely be said though is that Aphra Behn is now regarded as a key English playwright and a major figure in Restoration theatre. Aphra was born into the rising tensions to the English Civil War. Obviously a time of much division and difficulty as the King and Parliament, and their respective forces, came ever closer to conflict. There are claims she wa...

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by Billie Dureyea Shell (Author)Something's never change and for Tylor they always get worse before they get better. Taylor and her girls are back, a year older and still on some bullshit, from fighting her neighbor's 17 year old Daughter, to finding out she had sex with her son. Taylor's knee deep in it and loving every minute of it. But what happens when one of her friend's plan to cross her up is put into effect? Will Taylor find out and stop it in time? Or will she find herself becoming t...

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by Alicia King (Author)So this book is about me and my life. Some parts may be difficult to read; but just remember, you may be going through something that Tia goes through in this book and you may find that hard to read, but I've gone through it too and have come out the other side. So you can too.I've split this book into three parts: (1) drugs because, well, my whole life used to revolve around drugs; (2) fall because I fell; and (3) salvation because I'm now mentally good. Number of Page...

Staring Into the Eyes of a Devastated Woman - Paperback

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by Sharell Gonzales (Author)This story is about a young girl who thought life was so beautiful until the mirror broke, then she actually saw the truth of horrific events that started taking place in her life. She had nowhere to run or hide, so she went to the streets where her life took her on a journey of no return!She had to figure out all these obstacles on her own, which was really sad for the most part. Some events were life-threatening, but somehow, she managed to stand on solid ground ...

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by Sam Shepard (Author)When Roscoe, a 65-year-old Cervantes scholar, runs off with a young woman named Sally, he decides to stay a while in her family home. Soon he discovers that Sally's house--once inhabited by James Dean; perched precariously over the San Fernando valley--is filled with secrets, sadness, and haunted women who cannot leave themselves or anyone else in peace. From Lucy, Sally's suspicious sister, to Mable, their Shakespeare-quoting invalid mother, to Elizabeth, Mable's lovel...

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by Ronald Millar (Author), Rudolph Besier (Based on a Book by)The year 1845 finds the Moulton Barrett family of London tight in the grip of a tyrannical father. His invalid daughter Elizabeth is gaining a brilliant reputation as a writer. Her verses reach Robert Browning who falls in love with her before they have ever met. Browning sweeps into Elizabeth's life with the invigorating force of a sea breeze and her father senses that his absolute authority is in danger. Tension mounts as Edward ...

Aria Da Capo: A Play in One Act - Paperback

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by Edna St Vincent Millay (Author), Carl Van Doren (Contribution by)"Aria Da Capo" is a 1920 play in one act by American poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950). Divided into three parts, it is a expressionist morality play featuring the young shepherds Thyrsis and Corydon, artist Pierrot, a young woman called Columbine, and stage manager and the Masque of Tragedy, Cothurnus. A thought-provoking play not to be missed by fans and collectors of Millay's seminal work. Vincent Mil...

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by J. Cohen (Author), Dan Elish (Author)After receiving an invitation to his ex-fianc?e's wedding Henry Mann and his roommate embark on a quest to find his soulmate his perfect date."A great date musical for an audience that might not want the typical musical theater experience [...] any adult could relate to the heart of the show. It's a witty how-to for establishing lasting relationships." / Broadway World"A little gem!" /- Theater Pizazz"A sweet lighthearted look at one millennial navigati...

Riquezas, Migajas y Barrotes - Paperback

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by Gabriel Hern?ndez L?pez (Author)El autor denuncia, a traves de su novela, eventos que muchos observamos, o tal vez vivimos, pero no lo denunciamos por indiferencia, temor o conveniencia. Tambien como se produce el perdon, la sanacion y que tiempo toma. ?Como se olvidan esas heridas del alma y por que se dice "el que no olvida no ha perdonado? ?Se olvida totalmente? Las narrativas las tomo de eventos que ocurrieron, pero los nombres fueron cambiados. Tambien desarrollo ficcion de esos event...