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Follow acclaimed theatre directors Matthew Dunster and Natalie Abrahami throughout preparation and rehearsals for their respective Shakespeare productions: Dunster’s ‘intelligent production’ (Guardian) of Troilus and Cressida at Shakespeare’s Globe, and Abrahami’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream...

This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!

Why do we continue to experience many of Shakespeare's dramatic characters as real people with personal histories, individual personalities, and psychological depth? What is it that makes Falstaff seem to jump off the page, and what gives Hamlet his complexity? Shakespearean Character: Language in...

“Flossie! Flossie! Look at me! I’m having a steamboat ride! Oh, look!” “I am looking, Freddie Bobbsey!” “No, you’re not! You’re playing with your doll! Look at me splash, Flossie!” A little boy with blue eyes and light, curling hair was standing on a raft...

Led by their brave leader the Bold Tin Soldier, a battalion of toy soldiers put on a parade of fancy drills for all of their friends in the toy shop where they live (after the store has closed down for the day, of course). But just as the exhibition gets underway, the soldiers find out that one of their chums is in need of rescue.

Applying psychoanalytic and gender theory to selected Biblical narratives from Genesis to the Book of Ruth, Lefkovitz interprets the Bible's stories as foundation texts in the development of sexual identities. In Scripture is an exploration of the Biblical origins of a series of unstable ideas about...

The plot of this 1894 novel is aptly conveyed by its subtitle, “Being a Story Concerning Two Ladies, a Nobleman, and a Necklace.”  When Gilbert Aycon travels to his estate in Normandy, he encounters a beautiful young singer, Marie Delhasse, and the adventure of a lifetime.

This eBook edition of "The Abyss Trilogy: The Boats of the Glen Carrig, The House on the Borderland & The Ghost Pirates" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "The Boats of the Glen Carrig" – The ship "Glen Carrig"...

Every Moment Is a Holy Gift Pause with the intention of paying attention to God's presence as you step into your day. Transform your life into a prayer and awaken to the conversations, relationships, and times of stillness that shape your journey. In this devotional, you'll be refreshed as you...deepen...

This little book consists of two lectures delivered on August 19th and 20th, 1902, to students of the University Extension at Cambridge. In deference to the kindly expressed wish of many in my audience, and in view of the non-existence (so far as I know) of anything in English giving a purely popular...

The essentials of teaching carbohydrate counting are presented in this revised and much expanded edition. This resource provides clear and practical approaches that will allow you to help your patients achieve glycemic control with Basic or Advanced Carbohydrate Counting. Includes: reasons for teaching...

"Non pensare, Scarlett" le disse compiendo l'ultimo passo per colmare la distanza tra di loro. Attese un istante, probabilmente per vedere se si sarebbe allontanata da lui, ma lei rimase immobile al suo posto. Pensava che non sarebbe riuscita a far muovere le sue gambe neppure se la sua vita fosse dipesa...

Retold for Learners of English by Diane Mowat'We must leave for Zenda at once, to find the King!' cried Sapt. 'If we're caught, we'll all be killed!'So Rudolf Rassendyll and Sapt gallop through the night to find the King of Ruritania. But the King is now a prisoner in the Castle of Zenda. Who will...

"A Man of Mark" is, like "The Prisoner of Zenda," a story of adventure and intrigue, its scene laid in an imaginary South American republic, and told in a manner strongly suggestive of opera bouffe. The writer gives his fancy the freest of play, and his characters, despite their...