![]() ![]() "Leon Garfield's performance in ''Shakespeare Stories'' is masterly. The New York Times Book Review called Garfield's work "masterly". How do you make Shakespeare accessible to children, from generation to generation? Leon Garfield's Shakespeare Stories Volumes I (1985) and II (1994) were widely acclaimed for accomplishing this feat when published and are still considered among the best introductions to Shakespeare ever created for children and young adults. 1994, first published in Great Britain in 1994. 1985, first American edition, third printing. A two-book set of one of the best introductions to Shakespeare for children and young adults. ![]() Shakespeare Stories, Volumes I and II, written by Leon Garfield, illustrated by Michael Foreman. ![]()
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![]() The seven lighting instruments needed for the performance are attached around the top of the wooden cube. The color and finish of the wood should suggest a simple provincial schoolhouse of an earlier era or a rustic farm building. The setting consists of a ten-foot by ten-foot by ten-foot cube outlined by a wooden frame with a matching wood floor of simple, worn planking. ![]() Young Wally).ĭuring the pre-show blackout, a string quartet plays and continues as the lights come up. Piorkowski's school) Michal Zgiet (Siphon various students at Mr. ![]() Young Uncle Stan) Witold Mazurkiewicz (Joseph) Jaroslaw Tomica (Mietus various students at Mr. 26, 2000, Lang Performing Arts Center, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.ĭirected by Janusz Oprynski & Witold Mazurkiewicz scenography by Jerzy Rudzki music composed by Borys Somerschaf light and sound design by Janusz Oprynski and Jan Szamryk. The Polish version has also been performed in the U.S., Italy, Sardinia, Austria, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Croatia, Slovenia, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, Romania, Ukraine, and Belarus. Kuharski,īased on the translation by Danuta Borchardt PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 24.2 (2002) 69-96Īdapted from the novel by Witold Gombrowicz by Teatr Provisorium & Kompania Teatr English adaptation by Allen J. ![]() In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]() ![]() ![]() Tormented and grandiose (``I suffered ten times more than she at the idea of the punishments she would suffer''), Alain retreats to the Himalayas to tell fellow seekers of Indian truth that they are merely romantics who, unlike him, don't know the real story behind the mysteries of the East. After the younger sister blabs and the father sends Alain away, Maitreyi becomes a victim of her father's physical wrath. As Alain discovers that even the recently virginal Maitreyi knows the sexual secrets of the East, the two are tortured by a foreknowledge that their affair will be discovered by the teen's modernizing, but still traditional, Hindu family. ![]() As the young man and the teenager spend more and more time together, they are drawn together and end up, of course, spending passionate nights behind closed doors. ![]() Though the blossoming young woman has read widely in English, American, and Indian literature, Alain sees in her and her sister a certain savage Otherness that intrigues him. ![]() Alain, Eliade's persona in the story, comes to take up residence with an Indian family who have a sublime, mysteriously beautiful daughter, Maitreyi. This is the roman Ö clef about a torrid young love blown apart by cultural and colonial chasms in response to which, years later, Maitreyi Devi wrote It Does Not Die (see above). Eliade (19071986), a major figure in the scholarly study of world religions, tells his version of younger days and of what his ``research'' in India was really all about. ![]() ![]() ![]() One day however her father went to fight off the attacking Krell that had been invading their planet and died. She was very close to her father was a pilot for the DDF (Defiant Defensive Force) and was well respected among his flight crew. On one occasion, she was also able to activate M-Bot's cytonic hyperdrive.Īs a child Spensa grew up during the Glorious Rise of Industry. So far, she has demonstrated the ability to intercept the Krell's faster-than-light communications with their drones and to react to those orders faster than would be humanly possible. ![]() Spensa is an excellent pilot and also has cytonic abilities. Spensa has learned that bravery is more than just sounding heroic, but instead having confidence in herself and knowing that she wasn't a coward. 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But what she–™s best known and loved for is being so very, very nice. Gwen Maudsley is pretty enough to be popular, and plenty wealthy, too. ![]() 2023, Typ: Predaj, Stav: Používané, Lokalita: Bratislava I - Staré Mesto popis: She–™s been burned not once but twice by London–™s so-called gentlemen. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story goes into many different side characters, such as the young gladiator Atretes, who-as well as the main characters-are all searching for peace and purpose but unable to find it in the world of pleasures Rome has to offer. As she struggles to remain close to God, her hard life and difficult challenges are just beginning to the extent she is thrown to the lions. All he wants is for her to love him the same as he loves her, but she struggles with a choice, remain close to God or fall for a man who will lead her on a dark road away from him. Meanwhile, she struggles with her love for Julia's older brother, Marcus, thinking it's a trick from Satan to lead her away from God. As the story progresses, she gains the courage to tell others about her faith and the God that she serves. ![]() Hadassah is faithful and kind but afraid of many things. Although Julia initially dislikes Hadassah because of her plain appearance, she comes to trust her. ![]() She serves as a slave to a teenaged Roman woman named Julia, whose parents marry her off to a much older man. When Hadassah is captured by Roman soldiers, her entire family is killed. It is the story of a young Christian-Jewish slave named Hadassah living under the Roman Empire. A Voice in the Wind (1993) is a novel by Francine Rivers, and the first book in the Mark of the Lion Series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is one of the series's most ambitious efforts, and only a writer as good as Yolen ( Sister Light, Sister Dark ) could bring it off. Windling's Fairy Tale series has produced several excellent fantasy novels inspired by classic fairy tales. Military Book Club main selection Literary Guild alternate.Ĭopyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. This is a terrific read for WW II actions buffs. The book is enlivened with pertinent comments by veterans of "Easy Company," who recall not only the combat action but their relations with their officers (one company commander was a petty tyrant of the worst type, but his oppressive ways had much to do with the unit's impressive esprit de corps ) and their impressions of the countries through which they campaigned (hated the French, loved the Germans). Its troops saw their first action on D-Day behind the Normandy beachhead, took part in Operation Market Garden in Holland, held the perimeter around Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, and were the first to reach Hitler's Bavarian outpost at Berchtesgaden. ![]() Formed in July 1944 and deactivated in November 1945, E Company was one of the most successful light infantry units in the European theater. Army infantry company over its span of organizational life. Ambrose ( Pegasus Bridge ) narrates in vivid detail the adventures, misadventures, triumphs and tragedies of a single U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Everything I thought I knew was now questioned, and I didn’t know who could be trusted or where to turn. Just when I thought I had everything under control, our enemies attacked the hunter guild from every angle, and my whole world was kicked out from beneath me. There’s too much at stake to allow myself to be influenced or for him to stand in my way. ![]() There’s one thing Kieran didn’t count on, though. He’s an egotistical maniac with a secret agenda and a psychotic need to possess and control me. The transition should have gone smoothly, and it would have if Kieran Knight hadn’t shown up. The moment I took control, everything began to unravel around me. When the unthinkable happened, my father was taken, and I was forced to step up. I’d trained my entire life to take over the hunter guild. ![]() ![]() ![]() Its mystery and proliferating ghost stories during this one year propel a narrative as rich, emotional and profound as anything Louise Erdrich has written. The Sentence begins on All Souls’ Day 2019 and ends on All Souls’ Day 2020. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading ‘with murderous attention,’ must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation and furious reckoning. Flora dies on All Souls’ Day, but she simply won’t leave the store. ![]() ![]() ![]() A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store’s most annoying customer. With 'The Sentence,' Erdrich has crafted a hard-won love letter to readers and to booksellers, as well as a compelling story about how we cope with pain and fear, injustice and illness. Louise Erdrich’s latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage and of a woman’s relentless errors. PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE NIGHT WATCHMAN SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a life-affirming work of profound insight and intelligence. Ingeniously plotted, full of suspense and heartbreak, CASE HISTORIES is a feat of bravura storytelling that conveys the mysteries of life, its inanities and its hilarities. as part of the Masterpiece Mystery series now airing Sundays at 9 p.m. Surrounded by death, intrigue and misfortune, his own life is brought sharply into focus. She was appointed MBE in the 2011 Queen’s Birthday Honours List and was voted Waterstones UK Author of the Year at the 2013 Specsavers National Book Awards. Scottish author Kate Atkinsons cerebral novels about Jackson Brodie. ![]() Her new novel, A God in Ruins, is a companion to Life After Life, although the two novels can be read independently. It was also voted Book of the Year for the independent booksellers’ associations on both sides of the Atlantic. Her last novel, Life After Life, was the winner of the Costa Novel Award and the South Bank Sky Arts Literature Prize and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize. Her four bestselling novels featuring former detective Jackson Brodie became the BBC television series Case Histories, starring Jason Isaacs. She was appointed MBE in the 2011 Queens. She won the Whitbread (now Costa) Book of the Year prize with her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her new novel, A God in Ruins, is a companion to Life After Life, although the two novels can be read independently. Kate Atkinson was born in York and now lives in Edinburgh. ![]() series consistent in its exploration of people’s behavior-from quirks to evils-starring a lovable hero who attracts all sorts, Kate Atkinson’s series will keep you entertained for a long while. If you’re looking for a unique British P.I. Amazon Apple Books Barnes & Noble Google Play Kobo ![]() |