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Heartstopper meets Derry Girls in this wonderfully hilarious rom-com about finding your first love when your personality might be too big for the world around yo**u.**Patch Simmons has decided that this is the year he will get a boyfriend, so it's goodbye to his French pen-pal Jean-Pierre and hello to the world!Unfortunately, the only other "out" boys in his school year are dating each other, so finding a boyfriend isn't going to be easy.....

Instead of memorizing vocabulary words, work your way through an actual well-written novel. Even novices can follow along as each individual English paragraph is paired with the corresponding Spanish paragraph. It won't be an easy project, but you'll learn a lot.

These timeless plays by the great Bard of Elizabethan drama explore the hubris of four powerful men who ultimately bring about their own undoing.Richard III: Through coldblooded guile, hunchbacked royal Richard III assumes the throne of England and will stop at nothing to maintain his rule. But he will pay a price for his machinations in this historical play set in the era of the Wars of the Roses.Coriolanus: The common people of the Roman...

Twelve of Shakespeare’s most profound and moving dramas in one elegant volume.William Shakespeare’s tragedies introduced the world to some of the most well-known characters in literature, including Romeo, Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, and Othello. This handsome Word Cloud volume includes all twelve works from the First Folio that are commonly classified as tragedies—but the feelings that Shakespeare’s words can evoke range across the spectrum of human emotion...

The stories of tragedy and sadness shared by old-timers (viejitos) in Fe y tragedias: Faith and Tragedy in Hispanic Villages of New Mexico are as diverse as the voices behind them. Each bilingual (Spanish and English) account personifies faith, fortitude, compassion, and buoyancy. Without these human attributes, people beset with tragedy would have succumbed to tragedy itself.The high point of interest in this book is not to promote or engage in doom and gloom. Rather, it is to acquaint an...

Church’s retellings capture the emotional intensity of the original plays while using straightforward language to clarify complex relationships and conflicts. His stories retain the deep moral and philosophical questions posed in the tragedies, such as the nature of justice, the dangers of hubris, and the inevitability of fate. By emphasizing character motivations and core plot points, Church provides readers with an accessible introduction to Greek tragedy’s lessons on the human condition...

In the meantime, within the palace, Alcestis prepared herself for death. And first she washed her body with pure water from the river, and then she took from her coffer of cedar her fairest apparel, and adorned herself therewith. Then, being so arranged, she stood before the hearth and prayed, saying, "O Queen Heré, behold! I depart this day. Do thou therefore keep my children, giving to this one a noble husband and to that a loving wife." And all the altars that were in the house she visi...

After being lost to history for more than a century, La tragedia de la inundación de San Antonio is widely available for the first time, translated into English to commemorate the hundred-year anniversary of the San Antonio flood of 1921 and the dozens of lives lost.This short work of twenty sections paints a picture of the city’s segregated population and income disparities before plunging into the disaster. Written in the style of a nineteenth-century hi...

The anthology titled "The Maids Tragedy" is a profound exploration of early Renaissance drama, encapsulating themes of duty, honor, and the complexities of human relationships within a courtly setting. Through a dynamic interplay of intrigue, moral dilemmas, and tragic consequences, the collection presents a vivid tapestry of emotions and societal critiques, skillfully interwoven to reflect the literary and historical environment of the 17th century. The diverse styles within the collectio...

Many secondary school students find Shakespeare’s plays to be difficult and forbidding. This is often attributed to the somewhat dated language used in the original Shakespearean versions as well as the cultural context of the Elizabethan world. Louis Rozario Doss’s “Shakespearean Drama for Secondary Schools” is a timely remedy. This compendium contains renditions of Shakespeare in simplified,modern English which is more easily understood by learners of English. Louis Rozario Doss’s rendit...

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, known commonly as Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He is most noted for developing a new type of drama, the Senecan tragedy, which differed greatly from Greek tragedy. While the Greek tragedies were expansive and periodic, Senecan tragedies are more succinct and balanced. In Senecan tragedy, characters do not undergo much change, there is little or no catharsis in the end, and violence is acted out ...