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1) Oliver Twist
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Lexile measure
320L
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"First published in 1838, ‘Oliver Twist' is one of the most admired novels by Charles Dickens, an English writer, and social critic. It is the story of a young orphan who dares to say, ""Please, sir, I want some more."" After escaping from the dark and dismal workhouse where he was born, Oliver finds himself on the mean streets of Victorian-era London and is unwittingly recruited into a scabrous gang of scheming urchins. In this band of petty thieves,...
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“Familiar Studies of Men and Books” is a collection of essays by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The essays reflect Stevenson's opinions and observations on various aspects of literature and the human condition. They showcase his wit, wisdom, and style and demonstrate why he was one of the most popular writers of his time. In the essays, Stevenson discusses authors and works he admired, reflects on his own writing process, and offers insights...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
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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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
NC 1120L
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English
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"Readers and audiences have long greeted As You Like It with delight. Its characters are brilliant conversationalists, including the princesses Rosalind and Celia and their Fool, Touchstone. Soon after Rosalind and Orlando meet and fall in love, the princesses and Touchstone go into exile in the Forest of Arden, where they find new conversational partners. Duke Frederick, younger brother to Duke Senior, has overthrown his brother and forced him to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 450L
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English
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Completely red-edited,the New Folger Library edition of Shakespear'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. Each volume contains full explanatory notes on pages facing the text of the play, as well as a helpful introduction to Shakespeare's language.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design The Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A.R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read...
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Although one of his lesser known plays, Shakespeare's considerable abilities as a playwright are readily apparent in "Troilus and Cressida." This historical and tragic 'problem play', thought to be inspired by Chaucer, Homer, and some of Shakespeare's history-recording contemporaries, is initially a tale of a man and woman in love during the Trojan War. When Cressida is given to the Greeks in exchange for a prisoner of war, Troilus is determined to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
AD 600L
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English
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Mischief is in the air when the King and Queen of the Fairies quarrel and Puck is left in charge of the love potion. Four young people are lost in the woods on midsummer's night. Will they find each other and true love, or will Puck's meddling leave them broken-hearted and alone? A band of players prepares to entertain the Duke of Athens. But now that the fairies have made a donkey out of their leading man, will Quince and the others ever get to play...
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Heinrich Zimmer (1890–1943) was a historian of South Asian art. He was the author of Philosophies of India. Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) was the author of many books on comparative mythology, including The Hero with a Thousand Faces and The Masks of God.
A landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly from...
10) King Richard II
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"Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm off from an anointed king," declares the soon-to-be deposed ruler of this historical drama. Confident in his divine right, Richard II is an ineffective and unpopular king who abuses his power and sows the seeds of his own downfall. Toppled from the throne by Henry, his ambitious cousin, Richard only learns to value kingship after he loses it, achieving a tragic dignity only with his downfall....
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"A repackaged edition of the revered author's collection of essays on writing fiction. C.S. Lewis--the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved classics--was a professor of literature at Oxford University, where he was known for his insightful and often witty presentations on...
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This is the story of the books punks read and why they read them. The Year's Work in the Punk Bookshelf challenges the stereotype that punk rock is a bastion of violent, drug-addicted, uneducated drop outs. Brian James Schill explores how, for decades, punk and postpunk subculture has absorbed, debated, and reintroduced into popular culture, philosophy, classic literature, poetry, and avant-garde theatre. Connecting punk to not only Hegel, Nietzsche,...
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A substantial part of the core of H.D.'s classicism is undeniably Euripidean. In Hellenism, Gregory calls Euripides "architectonic" for H.D.'s writing and career. Despite H.D.'s fascination with Sappho and her experiments with other lyric poets, such as Meleager, her "flirtations" with Theocritus, Pausanias and Plato, it is Euripides' work she extensively reads, interprets, comments on, embeds, translates, and cites. Where her contemporaries, like...
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The Modernist quest for the renewal of poetry does not cease with World War Two. As Pound, Eliot, Williams and Crane conceive it, the new epic, provides the generic cradle for the inception of a new form. Hélène Aji summarizes certain theoretical precepts Pound received from Robert Browning's long poems. In his early Cantos, Pound adheres to Browning's dicta though later on his writing he begins to change as he starts questioning tradition and poetic...
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This analysis attempts to present the theoretical discussions of Plath's poetry within the general context of feminist criticism and writing by women and the problems faced by women as authors and poets. The book deals with the representation of the female body in Plath's poetry, by examining the views of such critics as Alicia Suskin Ostriker and Simone de Beauvoir, and specifically, how the body is represented in particular poems, like "Tulips"...
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In recent decades, Heliodora has received greater attention since it contains H.D.'s translation and poetic expansion of four Sapphic fragments. Along with her investigation of the Sapphic and lyric poems, H.D. is gradually creating her own archive, the unpublished Notes on Euripides, Pausanias and Greek Lyric Poets. H.D. has produced a range of poems, translation exercises from the Greek Anthology and poems that work palimpsestically within the context...
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In the very first sentence of "Spiegel, das Kätzchen" (1855), Gottfried Keller delineates what this story is about: economy, language, and psychology. The artistic tradition has endowed mirrors with the power to speak the truth and to reveal what otherwise falls in the blind spot of reason. Cats, on the other hand, with their experience as witches' sidekicks, decorated with boots and golden chains, are dressed to narrate and to represent obscure...
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As a modernist woman writer, H.D. could best be described as an advocate of experimentation and change. F. S. Flint, an early representative member of the movement of Imagism, discusses the ideological core of this generation that does not endorse a single form but demonstrates "a free spirit". Flint's remarks reveal that the aim of this new generation is to discover new forms of artistic expression. His views match equally well with H.D.'s heretic...
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The tale's emphasized novelty is manifold. Its action takes place not in a faraway land or mythical past but in Dresden, where Hoffmann moved in March 1813 to work as musical director for Joseph Seconda's opera company. He repopulates the Saxon capital with all kinds of fantastic personages who had been personae non grata during the Age of Enlightenment, rehabilitating fairies, witches and elemental spirits as voices of nature and poetry, and thereby...
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The question of whether Sylvia Plath was a confessional poet or not, has dominated and been at the centre of most critical studies of her work, ever since the publication of her final collection of poems. In this book, I will try to do more than show how similar her poetry is to that of other confessional poets, like Robert Lowell, Theodore Roethke and Anne Sexton.
To achieve this purpose, I will present a very brief comparison of "Daddy", one of...
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