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  The Tempest

  The world that William Shakespeare creates in The Tempest has many features that make it recognizably like our own. There are bad, self-seeking people; brothers…

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  Writing Essays About Literature: A Brief Guide for University and College Students – Second Edition

  This book gives students an answer to the question, “What does my professor want from this essay?” Using a single poem by William Carlos Williams…

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  Moral Tales: A Selection

  In their moral tales, writers such as Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth embraced explicitly didactic aims, seeking to instill normative moral behavior in…

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  The Red Laugh and The Abyss

  Leonid Andreyev’s The Red Laugh is an experimental depiction of war and its psychological effects, both on those who participate in the fighting and on…

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  Hagar’s Daughter

  Hagar’s Daughter is Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins’s first serial novel, published in the Boston-based Colored American Magazine (1901-02). The novel features concealed and mistaken identities, dramatic…

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  A Concise Guide to Technical Communication

  This compact but complete guide shows that less is more—with fewer extraneous details getting in the way of students trying to learn on the run,…

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  Barford Abbey

  The great-grandmother of Downton Abbey, Barford Abbey is among the first of a new genre of “abbey fictions.” Using the abbey as both a site…

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  Dreams

  Dreams is a work that defies conventional categorization; however, one might best capture its unique formal structure by construing it as a series of prose…

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  Write Here: Developing Writing Skills in a Media-Driven World

  Write Here is designed to teach students essential reading and writing skills, using media examples to help explain academic concepts and provide opportunities for practice.…

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  Ethical Reasoning: Theory and Application

  The philosophical tradition has given rise to many competing moral theories. Virtue ethics encourages the flourishing of the person, theories of justice and rights tell…

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  United States Immigration, 1800-1965: A History in Documents

  The debate over immigration has been a hallmark of the American nation since its earliest days, and it persists in generating a complex spectrum of…

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  Are They Women?

  Deeply engaged in women’s rights debates and discussions of the “third sex,” Are They Women? is about the lively communities of lesbians across turn-of-the-century central…