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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas is the ultimate novel of retribution. Based on a true story, it recounts the story of Edouard Dantes, his betrayal and imprisonment in the sinister Chateau d'If. Years later, Paris is intrigued by the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, who bursts onto the Paris social scene with his millions. He encounters the three principal betrayers of Dantes who have prospered in the post-Napoleonic boom and, one by...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Features a newly edited text of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Shakespeare's comedy of love, magic, and transformation; and provides an introduction, commentary, detailed notes, an account of the play as it would be performed in Shakespeare's theaters, and an essay on how to read Shakespeare's language."--
3) The prince
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"The classic handbook of statecraft written by an Italian nobleman recommends guile and craftiness to attain and maintain political power." --
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English
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"I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed." - William Shakespeare Arm yourself with this volume from the Knickerbocker Classic series, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, including 16 comedies, 10 histories, 12 tragedies and all the poems and sonnets of the world's most influential writer. This collection includes poems and plays that were not included in Shakespeare's First Folio of 1623 to make one complete, authentic...
5) Candide
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English
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The story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent cosmic plan.
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"The following Tales are meant to be submitted to the young reader as an introduction to the study of Shakespeare, [so] that the true Plays of Shakespeare may prove to them in older years -- enrichers of the fancy, strengtheners of virtue, a withdrawing from all selfish and mercenary thoughts, a lesson of all sweet and honourable thoughts and actions." --
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English
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"The Importance of Being Earnest is an important play by Oscar Wilde, and is a comedy of manners that discusses the serious of society. Set in late Victorian England, the story is about the main charachter, John Worthing's, ficticious brother Ernest, which is the main source of the comedy in this work. This is an important play for those are fans of comedy plays and of course the works of Oscar Wilde." --
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Disorder in the court: Larry, Moe and Curly testify in a murder trial, but true to form, normal coutroom proceedings are interrupted by their outrageous antics.
The brideless groom: Shem must marry to inherit a half-a-million dollars, so he runs an ad in the paper and gets mobbed by angry ex-girlfriends all trying to get their mitts on Shemp and his money!
Malice in the palace: The Stooges disguise and sneak into the palace of a sheik who has stolen...
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English
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In Spoon River Anthology, the American poet Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950) created a series of compelling free-verse monologues in which former citizens of a mythical Midwestern town speak touchingly from the grave of the thwarted hopes and dream of their lives. First published in book form in 1915, the Anthology was the crowning achievement of Masters' career as a poet, and a work that would become a landmark of 20th-century American literature....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Love's Labours Lost - William Shakespeare - Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s for a performance at the Inns of Court before Queen Elizabeth I. It follows the King of Navarre and his three companions as they attempt to forswear the company of women for three years of study and fasting, and their subsequent infatuation with the Princess of Aquitaine and her ladies. In...
12) Aleph
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English
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Aleph marks a return to the author's beginnings. In a frank and surprising personal story, one of the world's most beloved authors embarks on a remarkable and transformative journey of self discovery. Facing a grave crisis of faith, and seeking a path of spiritual renewal and growth, he decides to start over: to travel, to experiment, to reconnect with people and the world. On this journey through Europe, Africa, and Asia, he will again meet Hilal,...
13) The poetics
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English
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Aristotle's Poetics is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. This has been the traditional view for centuries. However, recent work is now challenging whether Aristotle focuses on literary theory per se (given that not one poem exists in the treatise) or whether he focuses instead on dramatic musical theory that only has language as one of the elements.
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Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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Die hard: New York City detective John McClane is in Los Angeles to spend the holidays with his estranged wife Holly. While McClane waits for Holly's office party to end, terrorists take control of the building. As their sinister leader, Hans Gruber, and his savage henchman round up hostages, McClane gets ready to blast a few rounds of his own and launch a one-man war.
Die hard 2: John McClane is off-duty on Christmas Eve in the nation's capital...
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Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2006.
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English
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"Passionate. Show-stopping. Daringly over-the-top and impressively consistent in its delirious excess. The Clean House shines."—New Haven Advocate
"The Clean House is not, by any means, a traditional boy-meets-girl story. In fact disease, death, and dirt are among the subjects it addresses. This comedy is romantic, deeply so, but in the more arcane sense of the word: visionary, tinged with fantasy, extravagant in
...19) Bodas de sangre
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
Español
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Con Bodas de sangre, obra en tres actos, escrita en verso y en prosa en 1933, Federico García Lorca se propuso escribir una tragedia en el sentido clásico del término, un género que consideraba la verdadera raíz del teatro.
La obra está ambientada en la tradicional Andalucía -que Lorca convierte en un lugar tan mítico y universal como la Grecia clásica-. Allí una joven enamorada de Leonardo, con quien mantuvo en el pasado una relación,...
