This complete study edition of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations includes information about life in Victorian England, questions, writing ideas, projects, and everything students need to explore one of the greatest novels of unrequited love, social status, and coming of age.
- Friendly reading support ensures understanding and enjoyment - Guided Reading Questions guide students through the work by raising important issues in key passages - Footnotes explain obscure references, unusual usages, and terms - Words for Everyday Use entries define and give pronunciations for difficult terms Reading Level: High School (challenging)
This complete study edition of Willa Cather's My Ántonia includes illustrations of nineteenth-century prairie life, historical information, questions, writing ideas, and projects to help students delve into this novel of friendship, memory, and change. Related readings by Willa Cather, Naomi Shihab Nye, Walt Whitman, and others illustrate and expand on themes from the novel.
- Friendly reading support ensures understanding and enjoyment - Guided Reading Questions guide students through the work - Footnotes explain obscure references, unusual usages, and terms
This complete study edition of Mark Twain's classic novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn includes historical information on nineteenth-century America, illustrations, questions, writing ideas, and projects to help students explore Huck and Jim's world, address attitudes towards race, and examine their own ideas about humanity.
- Friendly reading support ensures understanding and enjoyment - Guided Reading Questions guide students through the work by raising important issues in key passages. - Footnotes explain obscure references, unusual usages, and terms
Shakespeare and Montaigne are the English and French writers of the sixteenth century who have the most to say to modern readers. Shakespeare certainly drew on Montaigne's essay 'On Cannibals' in writing The Tempest and debates have raged amongst scholars about the playwright's obligations to Montaigne in passages from earlier plays including Hamlet, King Lear and Measure for Measure.
This book examines the ways in which Montaigne and Shakespeare used their reading and argued with it to create something new. It is the most sustained account available of the similarities and differences between these two great writers.
In Burning the Page, digital pioneer Jason Merkoski charts the ebook revolution's striking impact on the ways in which we create, discover, and share ideas. From the sleek halls of Silicon Valley to the jungles of Southeast Asia, Merkoski explores how ebooks came to be and predicts innovative and interactive ways digital content will shape our lives. Throughout, you are invited to continue the conversation online and help shape this exciting new world of "Reading 2.0."
For those who love books, collect books, own an e-reader, vow never to own one, or simply want to know where books are headed, this is a crucial guide to both the future of reading and to our digital culture as a whole.
