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Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Mark Joseph Salzman, the author of "Lying Awake" was born on 3rd of December 1959 in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA. This American writer is widely known for his immensely popular and widely read memoir "Iron & Silk."The author was an English teacher living in China in the early 1980s. "Iron & Silk" describes his experiences while living in China. He was the oldest child of his parents. He grew up in Ridgefield, Connecticut. His father was a social worker...
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Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Equus" by Peter Shaffer was written in 1973. The story of the play revolves around a psychiatrist who tries to treat a young man who happens to have a pathological religious fascination with horses. Once, a seventeen years old boy had blinded six horses in a small town near Suffolk. When Peter Shaffer heard about this crime, he got inspired to write the present play. He created a fictional account of the incidents which may have taken place. While...
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Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Cloud Nine" by Caryl Churchill is a two-act play. This famous play was written by this British playwright after workshops with the Joint Stock Theatre Company in late 1978. The play was first performed on 14th of February, 1979, at Dartington College of Arts, Devon. The play has a contrapuntal structure, anything contrapuntal has to do with counterpoint, which is a type of music that has two melodic lines played at the same time. The first act of...
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Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource.
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English
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There was a treaty signed between the IRA and the British government that allowed the self governance of sixteen out of twenty two counties. The treaty was signed in the year 1921. It was, however, a controversial treaty. The die-hard Republicans demanded the independence of all of Ireland. A Civil was started in 1922 between the Republicans and the Irish Free State Forces. The Free State forces had accepted the treaty. This is the setting of the...
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Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Educating Rita" by British playwright Willy Russell first premiered at The Warehouse, London, in June 1980. It is a stage comedy. The play is for two actors. The entire play is set in the office of an Open University lecturer. It is regarded as Willy Russell's one of the most regarded works. It is also considered to be one of the most popular works for the drama theatre in the late 20th century. The play is based on the playwright's own experiences....
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Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Hedda Gabler" by great Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen was first published in 1890. The play was first performed in Germany in 1891. The play did not receive many positive reviews when it was first performed. As the time passed, the play subsequently began to gain recognition as a classic of realism. With the passage of time, it became one of the most important plays in the nineteenth century theatre, and world drama. Hedda is the titular character....
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Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Ghosts" by Henrik Ibsen was written in 1881. The play was first staged in 1882 in Chicago, Illinois. The play was staged in America by a Danish company that was on the tour of the United States of America. Most of the plays written by Henrik Ibsen present a scathing commentary on the nineteenth century morality. The present play is also one such play. The play investigates the issues such as religion, venereal diseases, incest, and euthanasia
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Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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On the Beach" by Nevil Shute was first published in 1957. It is a post-apocalyptic novel. The author had moved to Australia from Britain before writing the present novel. The story is about an impending disaster after a nuclear war that happens to have taken place one year before. It describes the experiences of a group of people in Melbourne who are awaiting the arrival of fatal radiation that has been spreading towards them from the northern hemisphere...
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Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Phaedra" by great Greek philosopher and dramatist Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a famous play based on a mythological tale. The story of the play revolves around Phaedra, wife of King Theseus of Athens, and her insatiable lust for her stepson, Hippolytus. Greek Mythology and the tragedy "Hippolytus" by the great Greek playwright Euripides are the prime sources of the present play. Seneca has very extensively and artistically explored the tragic story....
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Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Charlie Gordon happens to be the first human test subject for the surgery. He writes a series of progress reports and tells the story. There are several moral and ethical themes in the novel. One of the most significant themes of the novel is the treatment of the mentally disabled people. It has always been a controversial novel and it has often been removed from libraries in America and Canada. However, it is regularly prescribed in the course of...
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Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut was first published in 1969. It is also titled "The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death." It is a highly satirical novel. The story revolves around a soldier named Billy Pilgrim. It describes his experiences during the Second World War. "Slaughterhouse Five" is considered as most influential and popular work of the author. The author describes the firebombing of Dresden as a central event. This particular...
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Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Look Back In Anger" by John Osborne is a very successful play. The play revolves around a love triangle. Jimmy Porter is an educated and intelligent young man of working class; he is highly dissatisfied. Alison is his wife; she is from upper middle class, but she is quite impassive. Helena Charles is the best friend of Alison; she is a haughty character. Cliff is a Welsh; he is a very friendly lodger; he tries to maintain the peace. When the play...
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Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource.
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English
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The play is not set in modern times. It is set during the Thirty Years' War of 1618-1648. The play revolves around a wily canteen woman, nicknamed Mother Courage. She works with the Swedish Army. She is quite courageous and she has decided to make her living from the war. Anna Fierling or Mother Courage loses her three children to the same war from which she happens to have sought to earn profit. Her three children were Swiss Cheese, Eilif, and Kattrin...
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Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
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Lucky Jim" by Kingsley Amis was first published in 1954. It was the first novel of the author and it won the Somerset Maugham Award for fiction. The story is assumed to be set sometime around 1950. Jim, the titular character and protagonist of the novel, follows the exploits of the eponymous James Dixon, called Jim. James Dixon was a reluctant medieval history lecturer at an anonymous provincial English university. The style of writing is quite wide-ranging...
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxi, 219 pages)
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English
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"Many readers know Stephen King for his early works of horror, from his fiction debut Carrie to his blockbuster novels The Shining, The Stand, and Misery, among others. While he continues to be a best-selling author, King's more recent fiction has not received the kind of critical attention that his books from the 1970s and 1980s enjoyed. Recent novels like Duma Key and 1/22/63 have been marginalized and, arguably, cast aside as anomalies within the...
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xx, 171 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"From his first novel, The Intuitionist, in 1999, Colson Whitehead has produced fiction that brilliantly blurs genre and cultural lines to demonstrate the universal angst and integral bonds shared by all Americans. By neglecting to mention a character's racial heritage, Whitehead challenges the cultural assumptions of his readers. His African American protagonists are well educated and upwardly mobile and thus lack some of the social angst that is...
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"Featuring 100 photographs of Frank Sinatra working with orchestras and arrangers, listening to playbacks, and, of course, singing, this book tells the whole story of how he created the Sinatra sound and translated the most intense personal emotions into richly worked-out songs of unrivalled expressiveness. One of the thrills of listening to Sinatra is wondering how he did it-and this book explains it all, bringing the dedicated fan and the casual...
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University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiii, 184 pages).
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English
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"The Theogony is one of the most important mythical texts to survive from antiquity, and we devote the first section to it. It tells of the creation of the present world order under the rule of almighty Zeus. The Works and Days, in the second section, describes a bitter dispute between Hesiod and his brother over the disposition of their father's property, a theme that allows Hesiod to range widely over issues of right and wrong. The Shield of Herakles,...
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Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
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English
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson Mc Cullers was first published in 1940. It was the author's debut novel. When the book was published, Caron Mc Cullers was only twenty-three-year old. The story revolves around John Singer who can neither speak nor listen. The novel details his life and the people he comes across in a 1930s mill town in the state of Georgia, in the United States
20) Othello
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Othello, a high-ranking Moorish soldier, marries Desdemona, daughter of a Venetian senator who opposes the marriage. Othello wins over her family, but a frustrated ensign, Iago, sabotages his happiness by insinuating that Desdemona is having an affair with Cassio, another officer. Jealousy, racial overtones, confusion, fear, and lies eventually destroy love, honor, friendship, and respect.
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