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A safe learning environment which includes research information, articles, current events, pictures and videos.
Good research tool for elementary and middle school students of all levels. Also includes early learning resources for preschool children and useful resources for homeschooling.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In this book on shaping a meaningful and ethical life, the renowned, Pulitzer Prize–winning author explores how character, courage, and human and moral understanding can be fostered by reflecting on the lives of others, through stories. Based on Robert Coles’ legendary course at Harvard, this provocative book addresses such questions as, “Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?” It calls on us to become stronger...
23) Macbeth
Author
Language
English
Description
Presents Shakespeare's drama about a man who kills the king of Scotland in order to claim the throne for himself, and includes explanatory notes, plot summaries, a key to notable lines and phrases, and other reference information.
25) Jonathan Swift
Language
English
Description
A collection of critical essays on Swift and his work. Also includes a chronology of events in his life.
26) Beowulf
Language
English
Description
Includes information about the author of "Beowulf, " thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.
Author
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
Edmund Wilson's last collection of criticism, The Devils & Canon Barham, contains ten essays on Poets, Novelists, and Monsters.
Previously published in the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, Wilson's writing featured in this volume sees the critic returning to his roots and youth, with essays on his childhood love for The Ingoldsby Legends, the works of Hemingway, Eliot's The Waste Land, and ends with a piece on The Monsters of Bomarzo...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1984.
Edition
First Harvest edition, 1984.
Language
English
Description
"There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure." 'The Common Reader' is a collection of essays that, as the title suggests, is for the common reader — the one who reads for pleasure's sake. Shedding academic language and the high brow style, Virginia Woolf explores authors like Jane Austen...
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