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Long Day's Journey Into Night

Eugene O'neill

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Total reviews: 65 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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Here on Compact Disc - a full-cast recording starring Robert Ryan, Stacy Keach, and Geraldine Fitzgerald - Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night.

O'Neill's painful view of his own life forms the core of Long Day's Journey Into Night, one of the greatest of all American plays. The Tyrone family (father James, mother Mary, and sons Edmund and Jamie) of the play is a surrogate for O'Neill's own family and, through them, the playwright wrestles with his past demons.

Covering a single day and night, O'Neill's play traces the impact on the family relapse into a drug addiction and younger son Edmund's being institutionalized for consumption. These events reopen old wounds and resentments and initiate a harrowing series of accusations and recriminations that threaten to tear apart the family.

At turns haunting, riveting, and emotionally lacerating, Long Day's Journey Into Night is one of O'Neill's greatest plays.

Directed by Arvin Brown, starring Robert Ryan, Stacy Keach, Geraldine Fitzgerald with James Naughton and Paddy Croft

Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound and Sense (Eighth Edition)

Thomas R. Arp, Greg Johnson

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Total reviews: 18 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Rich Literature. A great collection of American writings! 4 out of 5 stars.
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I had to buy this book for a class and have been impressed with how many writings it contains. It also discusses different styles and provides in-depth descriptions to make the poetry and stories more understandable to the average reader. I would recommend this book for someone interested in reading fine literature. It also comes in handy for writers as well.

Good condition-- bad timing. 3 out of 5 stars.
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it was a good book with everything looking brand new.. but it took FOREVER to get to me & i even spent more money to get it shipped sooner and i got it later then what i was supposed to... i didnt get my money back or anything for that.. so i probably will not use that company again.

Great Prices for Textbooks! 4 out of 5 stars.
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I was looking online for better prices on my textbooks and I found that Amazon.com's price was like $40 cheaper. I will say that I was a little disappointed at how long it took to get the book as my class began before I had the book. We have quizzes every class so it was hard to do my readings for the quizzes. Fortunately, most of these stories are in the public domain so I was able to find them online. Anyway, I love the book; it has great stories and the price was worth the wait!

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The classic text, PERRINE'S LITERATURE: STRUCTURE, SOUND, and SENSE, Eighth Edition, continues to provide students with a comprehensive study into the principal forms of fiction, poetry, and drama.

Tempest

William Shakespeare

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Total reviews: 38 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Excellent activity based edition 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

The Tempest is rightly regarded as being one of the Bard's greatest works, containing some of his deepest thoughts on the nature of power and the relationship between rational man as controller of nature, and the animal man always to be at the mercy of the passions both of himself, others, and the world around him. In fact, this play could be thought of as representing Shakespeare's final and definitive statement on topics that he had explored throughout his cannon. But profound as the philosophy is, and despite the beauty of the poetry and the many magical elements contained within the play, the fact is that as far as the average attention lacking teenager is concerned, not a lot happens. This is why this Cambridge schools edition scores over most others. It is almost entirely activity focused, the expressed aim being to 'bring the play to life'. With at least one suggested activity beside each page of Shakespeare's text (as well as a decent amount of background notes and interpretation), every teacher armed with this book should be able to enthuse his charges with the very real relevance of this play to the world which we have bequeathed them.

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O brave new world that has such people in't! - Miranda

A Shakespeare Society Production.

The complete play in five acts.

Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics)

Ovid

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Hobbled by bad book design 2 out of 5 stars.
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It's not like designers at Penguin Classics are lacking
the knowledge
Of how to handle hexameters. Why then their failure
to use it
In Raeburn's recent translation of Metamorphoses?
On an average page, there's barely three verses that's
typeset within
A single line, with all others continued with vast
indent--
And most roving over a single word. The pages are
ugly,
Everything awkward to read. The font size is generous,
though,
So why not reduce it a point and gather more verses
together?
Nor does it help that the poem is written in thumping
sub-Longfellow,
With all of the beats but now with just one third the
sonority--
Dietetically versed. Avoid this volume. Feh, and more
feh.

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Ovid’s sensuous and witty poem brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation—often as a result of love or lust—where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Erudite but light-hearted, dramatic and yet playful, the Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists throughout the centuries from Shakespeare and Titian to Picasso and Ted Hughes.

The Poet

Michael Connelly

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With his four Harry Bosch novels, Michael Connelly joined "the top rank of a new generation of crime writers" (Los Angeles Times). Connelly returns with his most searing thriller yet - a major departure that recalls the best work of Thomas Harris ("Red Dragon," "Silence of the Lambs") and James Patterson ("Along Came a Spider").

Our hero is Jack McEvoy, a Rocky Mountain News crime-beat reporter. As the novel opens, Jack's twin brother, a Denver homicide detective, has just killed himself. Or so it seems. But when Jack begins to investigate the phenomenon of police suicides, a disturbing pattern emerges, and soon suspects that a serial murderer is at work - a devious cop killer who's left a coast-to-coast trail of "suicide notes" drawn from the poems of Edgar Allan Poe. It's the story of a lifetime - except that "the Poet" already seems to know that Jack is trailing him. . .

Here is definitive proof that Michael Connelly is among the best suspense novelists working today.

The Works of Josephus: Complete and Unabridged

Josephus

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Total reviews: 31 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Fascinating View into the Ancient Past 5 out of 5 stars.
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Josephus is an important proof for the Biblical Account, and an important read for scholars interested in the Jewish wars with Rome, the Destruction of Jerusalem, and other events of the age from an eyewitness.

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This renowned reference book has served scholars, pastors, students, and those interested in the background of the New Testament for years. The insight given into the Essene community, the destruction of Jerusalem and the interpretations and traditions of the Old Testament in first century Judaism is invaluable. The outlook of Josephus, a late first century Pharisee and historian, on Jesus and the New Testament documents is enlightening and provocative. As an original reference, The Works of Josephus is essential to a full understanding of the first century, the time of Christ and the New Testament.

Complete and unabridged, this is the best one-volume edition of the classic translation of JosephusÂ’ works. The entire text has been reset in modern, easy-to-read type; numbering corresponding to that used in the Loeb edition has been added to the text; and citations and cross-references have been updated from Roman numerals to Arabic numbers.

Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed

Eileen Christelow

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Total reviews: 46 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

absolute favorite night time book for my kids.. 5 out of 5 stars.
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my little girl will ask me, long story or short story? depending on what time it is and how tired I am is how we decide. When it's late, we always go for a short story, and she always picks this one. My girl and my son gather on the bed and read our favorite book. We've read it so often, they'll recite the words as we read. Always puts us in a good mood and gets us ready for bed. What a joy!.

Great bedtime book. 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is such a great classic book. I would read this to my 2 year old and ask her "what does the doctor say?" and she would mumble "doctor waid no mo moonkey jupin on bed". So cute...

great book 4 out of 5 stars.
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my daughter is 2 1/2 yr old and this book doesn't keep her happy very long.

Kids love it. 5 out of 5 stars.
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My 17 month old son loves this book. Today when I went to pick him up from day care, he was holding this book, sat down and started "reading" it. He shook his finger in the air and said "no no monkey bed." All the other kids in the class saw what he was doing and they too (other 17 month olds) started shaking their fingers in the air saying "no no" and tapping their heads (for "bumped his head"). My feeling is that any book that encourages a kid that young to "read" is a great book! It is a classic song made into an enjoyable but catchy story! Enjoy!

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As soon as they say good night to Mama, the five little monkeys start to jump on their bed. But trouble lies ahead as, one by one, they fall off and hurt themselves. A counting book in which one by one the little monkeys jump on the bed only to fall off and bump their heads.

Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams

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TOO FRAGILE TO SURVIVE? 3 out of 5 stars.
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Tennessee Williams' play in seven scenes continues to fascinate
audiences and readers a half a century after its Chicago premiere.
Based loosely on autobiographical memories of his southern boyhood GLASS MENAGERIE strikes a responsive chord because most people can relate to conflict within a family unit. The three main characters strive to follow their private dreams--no matter how unrealistic they are. Mother and children seek both to escape their drab existence in a honeycomb of Chicago tenements, while concealing their frustration and despair from
each other. They scorn to seek solace or encouragement at home.

A former Southern belle, Mrs. Wingfield desperately wants social success for her daughter; her visions of jonquils and gentleman callers are pathetic attempts to relive her own youth through her socially-stunted daughter. Amanda, overzealous to control her son better than she did her long-gone traveling husband, merely succeeds in alienating Tom, a warehouse worker with dreams of writing poetry and/or joining the merchant marine.

Slightly crippled Laura ("sister" as Amanda calls her) fails at everything she touches, including most recently a typing course at a business college. Seeking escape and unconditional acceptance with her collection of glass animals Laura is excessively shy, terrified of all new social interactions. She seems doomed to early spinsterhood--incapable of providing for herself in the world.

Amanda's scheme to marry off her daughter hinges on the success of luring suitors to their modest apartment. Pressed into providing a gentleman caller Tom invites Jim O'Connor, an affable coworker. In fact both Wingfield siblings knew the former athlete in high school. Despite resistance from Laura, who refuses to cooperate in any social con game, the two young people seem to hit it off when left alone--until Jim drops a bombshell. Dreams are shattered like the glass unicorn, as Amanda despairs because she has two children who are not normal. How will either of the Wingfield offspring escape and find the freedom which their father coveted more than domestic duties? Williams' stage version deliberately blends typical stage business with a cinematic style acquired during his years in Hollywood. Audiences are reminded of the
the question of social survival and the painful fragility of tortured individuals bonded by genetic hostility.

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This famous Williams play provokes insight and sympathy while revealing a genteel southern lady's remembered world. 2 cassettes.

The poetics of space

Gaston Bachelard

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Total reviews: 16 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

English, please 1 out of 5 stars.
5 of 12 people found this review helpful.

I don't know if the problem is in the content of the book, or in the translation, but the book was almost incomprehensible. Unfortunately, I don't speak French, so I can't read the original and compare them, but I suspect it is the translation, which appeared a bit stilted and unnatural (similar to translations of Frederick Bastiat's The Law, or Pierre Boulle's Planet of the Apes, both of which were oddly worded, although easily readable, and Bastiat wrote more than 150 years ago).

Maybe the translator didn't quite understand the topic, or have a conversational grasp of the English language, either of which would make translating difficult. I almost picked up my Strunk & White's Elements of Style to review their readability formula just to quantify how dense this book was, but restrained myself.

To the reviewers I read before buying this book, now I understand why a number of them wrote things like, "you have to be able to sit back and ponder the book, savoring the words before digesting them." I took this as a sign that there were deep meanings that mesmerized the reader, and looked forward to it. No. To translate that phrase into common English, it means, "the translator has an Oxford English Dictionary and he's going to use it."

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The classic book on how we experience intimate spaces.

"A magical book. . . . A prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced—and enchanted-significances. Every reader of it will never see ordinary spaces in ordinary ways. Instead the reader will see with the soul of the eye, the glint of Gaston Bachelard."
—from the foreword by John R. Stilgoe

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Cajun Night Before Christmas

Trosclair

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Cajun Night before Christmas 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book has been a Christmas tradition in my family for many years. We are Cajuns and love this story. The illustrations are well drawn and bring this story to life for people of all ages.

Family tradition 5 out of 5 stars.
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I grew up in New Orleans and my dad would read this to me every year. After many years and many moves, we lost our original. I was thrilled to find this on Amazon and I purchased it for my dad as a Christmas gift. What a wonderful sight to see him reading it to my two sons this Christmas Eve!

Good Cajun Christmas Tale 4 out of 5 stars.
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Just what I wanted, the only problem I encountered, wasn't with the book but with the delivery of the item. I ordered it on the 7th and it arrived on the 24th. Amazon was very helpful in solving my problem. I will continue to place orders with them. Thanks again , my granddaughter loves her book.

Great as a curiosity-- 4 out of 5 stars.
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Who dat climbin' up on my roof? Who dat? Who dat? Who dat fallin' down de chimby? Who dat? Who dat?

Oh it's ol' St. Nick in his fine muskrat suit. Dat who! Dat who! Wid his gators pulling that skiff across de bayou: Gaston, Tiboy, Pierre, Alcee, Ninette, Suzette, Celeste, Renee.
"To de top o' de porch
To de top o' de wall
Make crawl, alligator,
An' be sho' you don' fall."

Bottom line: Seeing dos gators crawl up dat house gibs me de creeps, sho'! Even though I taught at a school for 25 years where the mascot was de Alligator (we called him Gator!) Our school was in de swamp! Know what I mean?

Here's how "Cajun Night Before Christmas" begins:
"'Twas the night before Christmas
An' all t'ru de house
Dey don't a t'ing pass
Not even a mouse.
De chirren been nezzle
Good snug on de flo'
An' Mama pass de pepper
T'ru de crack on de do'."

(Translation:
The children are nestled
Snug on the floor (cause we po' folks, don' got no beds)
And Mama has to put paper in the cracks in the wooden slat doors (cause we po' and live in shacks out in de swamp).

But we happy. Mama's cookin' up de gumbo in de fireplace. It's a big kettle hanging from a hook. When St. Nick comes down de chimby in his muskrat suit, he decide he don' wan' go back up de chimby, so he go out de do'.

Note: De pages wid the gators creepin' onto de porch and crawlin' up onto de roof is downrat scary. But den dos gators b'longs to St. Nick so dey allrat.

"An' I hear him shout loud
As a splashin' he go
'Merry Christmas to all
'Til I saw you some mo'!"

I knowed dat people far far away t'ink all de peoples dat live in de State of Louisienne be Cajuns, but dat not tru. Dos peoples dat live from de middlin' part of de state on down south, dos folks be Cajuns. We peoples dat live north of Alexandria, we are rednecks. Den der's de black folks who live all over.

Traditionally, people from North Louisiana are the Scots-Irish-English and Protestants that came across from North and South Carolina and settled in the South and on into East Texas. Cajuns, or Acadians, came from Canada (from France) and are Catholic and settled in the swampy areas of South Louisiana and immigrated then all through the southern part of the state, not just the swamps. You know where black folks came from.

"Trosclair" created this beloved Christmas classic in 1973. It is very popular in North Louisiana, as well as South Louisiana--we are ONE state, even if we bicker amongst ourselves like families.

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A version in Cajun dialect of the famous poem, "The Night Before Christmas," set in a Louisiana bayou.