This nuanced mostly reprint collection, the first in a decade from Nebula winner Kessel (Good News from Outer Space), plays on the theme of a hapless, down-on-his-luck man thrown into extraordinary circumstances. "The Juniper Tree," the Tiptree-winning "Stories for Men," "Sunlight or Rock" and "Under the Lunchbox Tree," all tied to Kessel's lunar colony sequence, explore the limits placed on a man's life in a beautiful, woman-dominated city on the barren moon. In "Powerless," the only story original to the volume, a hapless inventor finally perfects a strange new power generator, destroying his relationships along the way

Pronouncing Shakespeare: The Globe Experiment

How did Shakespeare's plays sound when they were originally performed? How can we know, and could the original pronunciation ever be recreated? For three days in June 2004 Shakespeare's Globe presented their production of Romeo and Juliet in original, Shakespearian pronunciation. In an unusual.......

 

Heartland 12 original songs appealing to adults and teenagers with content to give stimuli for discussions on emotion, ambition, and relationships both successful and unsuccessful.

Words from each song appear in full in book to aid understanding. Words also appear with 'cloze test' - vital words missing - to aid vocabulary building.
Content stimulates discussion. Imaginative language work sheets to aid comprehension

 

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Shakespeare wrote this romantic comedy to show that love hath no law but his own." The story of young lovers being toyed with by forest sprites is purely an entertaining fantasy, neither realistic nor tragic, and a popular drama the world over."

CliffsComplete combines the full original text of A Midsummer Night's Dream with a helpful glossary and CliffsNotes-quality commentary into one volume.

Now you can appreciate Julius Caesar in plain English. Political intrigue. Ambition. Envy. Conspiracy. Hypocrisy. Betrayal. Assassination. Pride. Suicide. The Ides of March. The tides of war. Julius Caesar makes today's political scene seem boring! If the original text seems Greek (or geek) to you, now you can read and enjoy it in a modern translation that's easy to understand.