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Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Endgame, & other plays Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Endgame, & other plays Jeffery Fisher A true innovation for the stage, Waiting for Godot is one of the greatest successes of the Theater of the Absurd. Although the subject and play is bleak in appearance, a semblance of nobility emerges… OL10367794W
The color purple The color purple Gloria Rose The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. In CliffsNotes on The Color Purple, you follow the bea… OL10369269W
The changeling The changeling Thomas Middleton,Trevor R. Griffiths,William Rowley Considered by critics to be one of the best tragedies of the English Renaissance, The Changeling was written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley and first published in book form in 1653. Beatrice-… OL1339729W
Understanding genre and medieval romance Understanding genre and medieval romance K. S. Whetter "Unique in combining a comprehensive and comparative study of genre with a study of romance, this book constitutes a significant contribution to ongoing critical debates over the definition of romanc… OL13608230W
Bleak House Bleak House Charles Dickens As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually be… OL14868510W
Vanity fair Vanity fair Mildred R. Bennett This satirical novel of manners will fascinate the careful reader. The story of the various fortunes of two women in 19th-century England is filled with sly irony and tongue-in-cheek humor, yet it of… OL15155328W
CliffsNotes on Lawrence's Sons and Lovers CliffsNotes on Lawrence's Sons and Lovers Rita Granger Shaw Paul Morel is a sensitive son of an English miner. He is devoted to his mother and torn between his love for Miriam and his bond with his mother. He rejects Miriam and turns to an older, married woma… OL15174355W
CliffsNotes on Fielding's Joseph Andrews CliffsNotes on Fielding's Joseph Andrews Michael B Mavor Ordinarily a moralist writer, in this novel Fielding creates a comedy of romance, by superimposing the positive act of the imagination on the raw material of the real world. It is ultimately both ins… OL15191883W
Women's poetry and popular culture Women's poetry and popular culture Marsha Bryant "Women's Poetry and Popular Culture brings a fresh approach to the field by showing that poems by women do not always subvert the mainstream, the media, and the marketplace. Bridging feminist and cul… OL15933338W
Literary authors, parliamentary reporters Literary authors, parliamentary reporters Nikki Hessell "Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt and Charles Dickens all worked as parliamentary reporters, but their experiences in the press gallery have not received much scrutiny. Nikki … OL16014490W
The mountain of gold The mountain of gold J. D. Davies Beset by pirates, Knights of Malta, and saboteurs, Captain Matthew Quinton sails to Africa in pursuit of a mountain of gold. When a captured Barbary pirate saves his neck with a tall tale of a fabled… OL16442599W
English literature from the 19th century through today English literature from the 19th century through today J. E. Luebering As the British empire expanded ever outward, English writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries such as Charles Dickens, T.S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf turned their gaze inward to matters of ethica… OL16958854W
Sunlight on the lawn Sunlight on the lawn Nichols, Beverley Sunlight on the Lawn brings to a close Beverley Nichols's delightful Merry Hall trilogy describing the renovation of his rundown Georgian mansion and its garden. In his entertaining and inimitable ma… OL1824923W
Parallax Parallax Sinéad Morrissey "A T.S. Eliot Prize-winning collection from one of Ireland's major contemporary poets PARALLAX: (Astron.) Apparent displacement, or difference in the apparent position, of an object, caused by actual… OL19755438W
De straatfilosoof De straatfilosoof Matthew Plampin Een Engelse correspondent bericht vanaf het Britse front in Rusland tijdens de Krimoorlog in 1854. OL19841528W
Sea of stone Sea of stone Michael Ridpath Oli and Magnus Jonson have spent years trying to escape from the shadows of their past. Raised by their grandparents in Bjarnarhöfn, a remote farmstead in Iceland, the brothers had to endure brutal v… OL20828626W
How and Why We Teach Shakespeare How and Why We Teach Shakespeare Sidney Homan In How and Why We Teach Shakespeare, 19 distinguished college teachers and directors draw from their personal experiences and share their methods and the reasons why they teach Shakespeare. The colle… OL23499224W
To Greet the Sun To Greet the Sun Claus Von Bohlen ONE LIFE. TWO HEROIC ACTS, HALF A CENTURY APART. Otto Eisinger, an elderly German émigré living alone in Brazil, attempts to thwart a pair of armed robbers and is savagely beaten. While he is convale… OL24426992W
The Guga Stone The Guga Stone Donald S. Murray In 1930, the last inhabitants of the isle of St Kilda were evacuated to the mainland. Shortly afterwards, following several acts of vandalism by local fishermen, Calum MacKinnon was sent back to the … OL26377167W
While No One Was Watching While No One Was Watching Debz Hobbs-Wyatt Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 p.m., U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade hits town, watched by crowds of spectators and the world's media. Watching … OL27702530W
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