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61) A year full of stories: 366 days of story and rhyme

Author

Adams, Georgie

Pub. Date

1997

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A collection of stories, poems, holiday tales, humor, fantasies, and retellings of best-loved classics, with one for each day of the year.

62) The Riverside Shakespeare

Author

Shakespeare, William

Pub. Date

[1997]

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The Second Edition of this complete collection of Shakespeare's plays and poems features two essays on recent criticism and productions, fully updated textual notes, a photographic insert of recent productions, and two works recently attributed to Shakespeare. The authors of the essays on recent criticism and productions are Heather DuBrow, University of Wisconsin at Madison, and William Liston, Ball State University, respectively.

63) Instant English literature: the nineteenth century

Author

Gelshenen, Rosemary

Pub. Date

c1994

64) The Roald Dahl treasury

Author

Dahl, Roald

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Presents selections from the writings of English author Roald Dahl, with over fifty stories, rhymes, memoirs, letters, and poems arranged by theme.

65) Prentice Hall guide to English literature: the new authority on English literature

Pub. Date

1990.

66) Masterpieces of women's literature

Pub. Date

c1996

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Features critical summaries and descriptions of the greatest works of literature by women authors.

67) The Norton book of sports

Pub. Date

c1992

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A collection of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry about various sports.

68) A Halloween reader: poems, stories, and plays from Halloweens past

Pub. Date

2004

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This sourcebook of Halloween spans British, Irish, Scottish, French, Canadian, and American literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Each of the poems, stories, and plays in this anthology provides a link to Halloween celebrations of the past.

69) Booked: literature in the soul of me

Author

Prior, Karen Swallow

Pub. Date

[2012]

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"Ever wished you'd had a teacher who made you want to read the classics? Your wish has come true in this beautifully-told book. Karen Swallow Prior movingly and honestly tells a compelling story of self-discovery and coming to faith through some of the greatest books ever written"--P.4 of cover.

70) Between men: English literature and male homosocial desire

Author

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky

Series

Gender and Culture

Pub. Date

1985

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At the time of its first appearance in 1985 Between Men was viewed as an important intervention into Feminist as well as Gay and Lesbian studies. It was an important book because it argued that "sexuality" and "desire" were not a historical phenomenon but carefully managed social constructs. This insight (that actually originated with Michael Foucault) is often viewed as anti-humanist or post-humanist because it argues that men and women are simply...

71) A hovering of vultures

Author

Barnard, Robert

Series

Charlie Peace mysteries volume 3

Pub. Date

c1993

72) The romantics: English literature in its historical, cultural and social contexts

Author

King, Neil

Series

Backgrounds to English literature volume 2

Pub. Date

c2003

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Provides historical, cultural, and social contexts for the study of English literature, looking at the literary genres and highlighting key writers and works from the Romantic period, and includes a time line, glossaries, and resources for further study.

73) Journalistas: 100 years of the best writing and reporting by women journalists

Pub. Date

2005.

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Since their emergence as a journalistic force after the world wars, women have continued to break new ground in newspapers and magazines, redefining the world as we see it as well as the craft as it is applied. Many of these pieces feel almost unsettlingly relevant today--the conclusions Emma Goldman drew in her 1916 article on birth control, Maddy Vegtel's 1930s article about becoming pregnant at forty, and Eleanor Roosevelt's call for greater tolerance...

74) As you like it

Pub. Date

c2007

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The plot, characters, and historical background of the Shakespeare play.

75) A literary history of England

Author

Baugh, Albert C

Pub. Date

[1967]

76) Prime suspect 6: the last witness

Pub. Date

2003.

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Ripe for retirement in the eyes of some, Tennison is still up for a fight, and she'll need all the energy she can muster when she takes on the darker forces of British government in search of a sadistic killer with a guilty past.