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The Four Just Men (1905) is a political thriller by Edgar Wallace. The book that launched Wallace's career as one of England's leading popular fiction writers, The Four Just Men was released in conjunction with a newspaper competition allowing readers to guess the truth behind the unsolved mystery at the end of the novel. Like many of Wallace's stories and novels, The Four Just Men was adapted into a silent film in 1921 before being made into a popular...
2) Suddenly
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Proceeding a presidential visit, a trio of impersonating FBI agents enter a home where John Baron (Frank Sinatra) reveals himself as an assassin. He kidnaps the family in order to use their house as his vantage point in his plot to kill the president.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Shakespeare may have written Julius Caesar as the first of his plays to be performed at the Globe, in 1599. For it, he turned to a key event in Roman history: Caesar's death at the hands of friends and fellow politicians. Renaissance writers disagreed over the assassination, seeing Brutus, a leading conspirator, as either hero or villain. Shakespeare's play keeps this debate alive.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 6
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GN 470L
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English
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Completely re-edited, the New Folger Library edition of Shakespeare's plays puts readers in touch with current ways of thinking about Shakespeare. Each freshly edited text is based directly on what the editors consider the best early printed version of the play.
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