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62) Romeo and Juliet
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Has any other love story become so enmeshed in our culture as the tragic story of Romeo and Juliet? In fair Verona the families of Montague and Capulet are locked in a long-standing, bitter blood feud when young Romeo Montague slips into a masquerade party at the Capulet's. During the dance he glimpses Juliet, the daughter of the house, and is struck by love at first sight. She returns his passion and they promise each other everlasting love notwithstanding...
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[2012]
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"Ever wished you'd had a teacher who made you want to read the classics? Your wish has come true in this beautifully-told book. Karen Swallow Prior movingly and honestly tells a compelling story of self-discovery and coming to faith through some of the greatest books ever written"--P.4 of cover.
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1985
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At the time of its first appearance in 1985 Between Men was viewed as an important intervention into Feminist as well as Gay and Lesbian studies. It was an important book because it argued that "sexuality" and "desire" were not a historical phenomenon but carefully managed social constructs. This insight (that actually originated with Michael Foucault) is often viewed as anti-humanist or post-humanist because it argues that men and women are simply...
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Backgrounds to English literature volume 2
Pub. Date
c2003
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Provides historical, cultural, and social contexts for the study of English literature, looking at the literary genres and highlighting key writers and works from the Romantic period, and includes a time line, glossaries, and resources for further study.
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2005.
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Since their emergence as a journalistic force after the world wars, women have continued to break new ground in newspapers and magazines, redefining the world as we see it as well as the craft as it is applied. Many of these pieces feel almost unsettlingly relevant today--the conclusions Emma Goldman drew in her 1916 article on birth control, Maddy Vegtel's 1930s article about becoming pregnant at forty, and Eleanor Roosevelt's call for greater tolerance...
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