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The playboy of the western world and riders to the sea
(ROUTLEDGE, 2003)The Playboy of the Western World, John Millington Synge's most famous play, is sweetly funny and ironic as it follows its young hero's progress, in the eyes of others, from timid weakling to paragon of bravery.The shorter ... -
The Preface to his Dictionary
(The College of DuPage, 2003)We are pleased to present the first volume of ESSAI the Preface to his Dictionary, The College of DuPage Anthology of Academic Writing Across the Curriculum. ESSAI celebrates and honors the skill, scholarship, and ... -
Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons": A Study Guide from Gale's "Novels for Students" (Volume 16, Chapter 4)
(Gale, 2003)The generation gap between the fathers and sons in the story neatly symbolized the current political debates between the older reactionaries and the younger radicals. Bazarov is a nihilist who scorns the purposelessness ... -
Advanced language practice with key (English grammar and vocabulary)
(Macmillan Education, 2003)This text is designed to revise and consolidate grammar points at the level of CAE and Proficiency exams, and this edition has been revised to include proficiency material in the format of the 2002 exam. It is available ... -
The Second Jungle Book
(An Electronic Classics Series Publication, 2003)The tales in The Second Jungle Book includes five further stories about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. "How Fear Came": This story takes place before Mowgli fights ... -
Poetry
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)John Donne was an English poet, satirist, lawyer and priest. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, ... -
Romeo and juliet
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays ... -
The divine comedy
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)The Divine Comedy is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri between c. 1308 and his death in 1321. It is widely considered the per-eminent work of Italian literature, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world ... -
The iliad
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)The Iliad (sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of ... -
The tragedy of hamlet, prince of denmark
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)The protagonist of Hamlet is Prince Hamlet of Denmark, son of the recently deceased King Hamlet, and nephew of King Claudius, his father's brother and successor. Claudius hastily married King Hamlet's widow, Gertrude, ... -
Animal farm
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)Old Major, the old boar on the Manor Farm, summons the animals on the farm together for a meeting, during which he refers to humans as parasites and teaches the animals a revolutionary song called Beasts of England. When ... -
Lyrical ballads
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1798 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic ... -
Paradise regained
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)Paradise Regained is the idea of reversals. As implied by its title, Milton sets out to reverse the "loss" of Paradise. Thus, antonyms are often found next to each other, reinforcing the idea that everything that was lost ... -
Julius caesar
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)Marcus Brutus is Caesar's close friend and a Roman praetor. Brutus allows himself to be cajoled into joining a group of conspiring senators because of a growing suspicion—implanted by Caius Cassius—that Caesar intends to ... -
Selected poems
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into a brilliant poetic maturity. By the end of his brief career, he had written poems of such beauty, imagination and generosity of spirit, that ... -
King lear
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. The ... -
Beowulf
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)Beowulf (/ˈbeɪ.ɵwʊlf/; in Old English [ˈbeːo̯wʊlf] or [ˈbeːəwʊlf]) is the conventional title of an Old English epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most ... -
Kim
(An Electronic Classics Series Publication, 2004)Nobel Prize-winning author Rudyard Kipling set his final and most famous novel in the complex, mystery-shrouded India of the mid-19th century where an exotic landscape teems with natives living under British colonial ... -
Twelfth night
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)Twelfth Night; or, What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–02 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centers on the twins Viola ... -
A doll’s house
(thewritedirection.net, 2004)The play is significant for its critical attitude toward 19th century marriage norms. It aroused great controversy at the time, as it concludes with the protagonist, Nora, leaving her husband and children because she wants ...
