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This elegant and insightful biography of Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) was written by her granddaughters, Charlotte Jones Voiklis and Léna Roy. Using never-before-seen archival materials that include photographs, poems, letters, and journal entries from when Madeleine was a child until just after the publication of her classic, A Wrinkle in Time, her granddaughters weave together an in-depth and unique view of the famous writer. It is a story of...
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A collection of the well-known stories, including "How the Whale Got His Throat," "The Elephant's Child, " and "The Butterfly That Stamped." Kipling's own drawings, with their long, funny captions, illustrate his hilarious explanations of "How the Camel Got His Hump," "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin," "How the Armadillo Happened," and other animals How's. He began inventing these stories in his American wife's hometown of Brattleboro, Vermont, to...
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"For this updated critical edition of Romeo and Juliet, Hester Lees-Jeffries has written a completely new Introduction. It draws on recent research in theatre to set Romeo and Juliet in its mid-1590s context, making connections with other plays by Shakespeare and other literature of the period, as well as with the social and cultural contexts of the day, with discussions of London and Italy; dancing and duelling; marriage, gender and sexuality. It...
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