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1984 with Connections
Contains: [Nineteen Eighty-Four]( A fresh visit to Bethnal Green -- The censors -- Happy birthday, North Korea -- From one day in the life of Ivan Denisovich -- If our enemies took me -- Chiune and Yukiko Sugihara -- Biographical sketch.
A Separate Peace
Gene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend were roommates in a New hampshire boarding school.
Things Fall Apart with Connections
Contains: - [Things Fall Apart]( Chinua Achebe -- - ...
The Yearling with Connections
The yearling / by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -- The boy who talked with animals (short story) / by Roald Dahl -- The banyan deer (folk tale) / retold by Ellen C. Babbitt -- Moon when deer drop their horns (poem) / by Joseph Bruchac and Jonathan London -- "I say it's got to be done" (obituary) : Marjory Douglas, champion of the Everglades, dies at 108 / by Richard Severo -- A very special pet (short story) / by Nicholasa Mohr -- A mother in Mannville (short story) by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (biographical sketch).
The Tragedy of Hamlet with Connections
Contains: [Hamlet]( Connections: Just lather, that's all (short story) / by Hernando Téllez -- Plays and performances (book excerpt) / by John Russell Brown -- In a dark time (poem) / by Theodore Roethke -- Raymond Chandler's Hamlet (short story) / by Jonathan Vos Post -- from John Gielgud directs Richard Burton in Hamlet (book excerpt) / by Richard L. Sterne -- Two poems by Maya Angelou (poems) -- The Olivier Hamlet (review) / by Bosley Crowther -- Fear no more the heat o' the sun (song) / by William Shakespeare -- The Gibson Hamlet (review) / by Roger Ebert -- The Branagh Hamlet (review) / by Roger Ebert -- Sonnet 146 (poem) / by William Shakespeare.
Scarlet Letter with Connections
The Scarlett Letter -- Connections: Who killed Arthur Dimmesdale? / by Perry Turner -- [Lottery]( / by Shirley Jackson -- Puritan sonnet / by Elinor Wylie -- The woman caught in adultery -- Nor fitting for your sex / by Doreen Rappaport -- Declaration of rights and sentiment / by Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- A double standard / by Frances E.W. Harper -- Notes and an article / by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- "A" is for appalling / by Richard Alleva -- [Tell-tale Heart]( / by Edgar Allan Poe -- The custom house / by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Nathaniel Hawthorne biographical sketch.
A Raisin in the Sun
This groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands in the Broadway production which opened in 1959. Set on Chicago's South Side, the plot revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis and matriarch Lena, called Mama. When her deceased husband's insurance money comes through, Mama dreams of moving to a new home and a better neighborhood in Chicago. Walter Lee, a chauffeur, has other plans, however: buying a liquor store and being his own man. Beneatha dreams of medical school. The tensions and prejudice they face form this seminal American drama. Sacrifice, trust and love among the Younger family and their heroic struggle to retain dignity in a harsh and changing world is a searing and timeless document of hope and inspiration. Winner of the NY Drama Critic's Award as Best Play of the Year, it has been hailed as a "pivotal play in the history of the American Black theatre." by Newsweek and "a milestone in the American Theatre." by Ebony.
La Nuit
Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man's capacity for inhumanity to man. Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be. - Publisher. Night is Elie Wiesel's account of his childhood experiences in a Hungarian ghetto and the Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Also contained in: [Night with Related Readings]( [La Nuit / L'Aube / Le Jour](
Pygmalion with Connections
Contains: - [Pygmalion]( - Pygmalion and Galatea - "The Rain in Spain" - from Speaking Across the Divide
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
Christmas Plays written by Betty Smith and 9 other popular authors. Connections: Good King Wenceslas (carol) / traditional -- Christmas bells (poem) / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The scrooge test (humor) from You know you're a scrooge when ... / by Scott Matthews and Barbara Alpert -- A Christmas wish (novel extract) from A tree grows in Brooklyn / by Betty Smith -- The cobbler and the banker (fable) / by Jean de la Fontaine -- The unrepentant rich man (reader's theater) Luke 16:19-31 / adapted by Diane B. Engel -- Scrooge, ghosts, Tiny Tim and Patrick Stewart (theater review) / by Mel Gussow -- A one-man version of A Christmas carol (interview extract) / with Patrick Stewart -- Christmas was a time of plenty (personal memoir) / by Nicholasa Mohr -- Christmas Eve (poem) / by Cathy Song -- Charles Dickens (biographical sketch).
Farewell to Manzanar
"Farewell to Manzanar is the true story of one spirited Japanese American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention...and of a native-born American child who discovered what it was like to grow up behind barbed wire in the United States. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET
Ethan Frome with Connections
Contains complete text of [Ethan Frome]( plus these supplementary materials: Biographical sketch of Edith Wharton. - Excerpt from Wharton's autobiography, 'A Backward Glance.' - Literary criticism of Ethan Frome, by Elizabeth Ammons. - Complementary poems and short stories.
Pride and Prejudice with Connections
Contains: - [Pride and Prejudice]( - and...?
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with Connections
Contains: [Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]( The Negro Speaks of Rivers from Exodus from the King James Bible African American Freedom Songs from Driving Miss Daisy Twain and Huck finn: Two Commentaries The Passing of Grandison Mark Twain (biographical sketch)
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar with Connections
The clay marble
In the late 1970s twelve-year-old Dara joins a refugee camp in war-torn Cambodia and becomes separated from her family.
A Tale of Two Cities with Connections
Contains: - [Tale of Two Cities]( - and?