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Morality Play

The nationwide bestseller: A medieval homicide secret jam-packed with the wonders of the time—and classes for our personal time—by a grasp storyteller.
The time is the fourteenth century. where is a small city in rural England, and the surroundings a snow-laden wintry weather. A small troupe of actors followed by means of Nicholas Barber, a tender renegade priest, arrange to play the drama in their lives. Breaking the longstanding culture of simply acting spiritual performs, the teams chief, Martin, wishes them to enact the homicide that's most efficient within the townspeoples minds. a tender boy has been came across useless, and a mute-and-deaf lady has been arrested and stands to be hanged for the homicide. As individuals of the troupe delve deeper into the situations of the homicide, they locate themselves getting into a political and sophistication feud which can undo them. fascinating and suspenseful, Morality Play is a good looking paintings that captivates by means of its energy, whereas establishing up the far-off previous as new to the reader.

McDougal Littell Literature: British Literature, Grade 12 (Student Edition)

Scholar Textbook on British Literature (Grade 12)

The Annotated Sense and Sensibility

From the editor of the preferred Annotated delight and Prejudice comes an annotated variation of Jane Austen’s experience and Sensibility that makes this story of 2 sisters in love an excellent extra relaxing learn. this is the entire textual content of the radical with greater than 2,000 annotations on dealing with pages, including:
 
-Explanations of old context
-Citations from Austen’s existence, letters, and different writings
-Definitions and clarifications
-Literary reviews and analysis
-Multiple maps of britain and London
-An advent, bibliography, and certain chronology of events
-More than a hundred informative illustrations
 
Filled with interesting information regarding every thing from the principles of inheritance that can depart a filthy rich man’s daughters nearly penniless to the trendy cult of sensibility that Austen so brilliantly satirizes, David M. Shapard’s Annotated experience and Sensibility is an unique and edifying pride.

Troilus and Cressida

Troilus and Cressida is determined in the course of the later years of the Trojan struggle, faithfully following the plotline of the Iliad from Achilles' refusal to take part in conflict to Hector's demise. Troilus, a Trojan prince (son of Priam), woos Cressida, one other Trojan.

They have intercourse, professing their timeless love, prior to Cressida is exchanged for a Trojan prisoner of conflict.

As he makes an attempt to go to her within the Greek camp, Troilus glimpses Diomedes flirting together with his cherished Cressida, and makes a decision to avenge her perfidy.