HRW Library
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A compilation of the two stories by H. G. Wells, with original acknowledgements, etc., and no additional commentary.
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Books in this Series
The War Of The Worlds/The Time Machine
A compilation of the two stories by H. G. Wells, with original acknowledgements, etc., and no additional commentary.
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.
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.
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).
Long Walk to Freedom
The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. Emotive, compelling and uplifting, Long Walk to Freedom is the exhilarating story of an epic life; a story of hardship, resilience and ultimate triumph told with the clarity and eloquence of a born leader.
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.