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Completely re-edited,the New Folger Library editions of Shakespeare's plays put readers in touch with current ways of thinking about Shakespeare.Each freshly edited text is based directly on what the editors consider the best early printed version of the play.Each volume contains full explanatory notes on pages facing the text of the play,as well as a helpful introduction to Shakespeare's language.The accounts of William Shakespeare's life,his theater,and the publication of his plays present the latest scholarship,and the annotated reading lists suggest sources of further informa-tion.The illustrations of objects,clothing,and mythological figures mentioned in the plays are drawn from the Library's vast holdings of rare books.At the conclusion of each play there is a full essay by an outstanding scholar who assesses the play in light of today's interests and concerns.

On the eve of the Globe's production of "Hamlet,"Shakespearean scholar Kate Shelton is given what is claimed to bethe Bard's long-lost work. When a killer decides to stagetheatrical murders as flesh-and-blood realities, Shelton mustdecipher a string of clues before anyone else dies.

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometimes violentnovel of expectation, love. oppression, sin, religion and betrayal.It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of HelenHuntingdon, the mysterious 'tenant' of the title, and herdissolute, alcoholic husband. Defying convention, Helen leavesher husband to protect their young son from his father'sinfluence, and earns her own living as an artist. Whilst in hidingat Wildfell Hall, she encounters Gilbert Markham. who falls inlove with her. On its first publication in 1848, Anne Bront 's second novel was criticised for being 'coarse' and 'brutal'. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall challenges the social conventions of the early nineteenth century in a strong defence of women's rights in the face of psychological abuse from their husbands. Anne Bront 's style is bold, naturalistic and passionate, and this novel, which her sister Charlotte considered 'an entire mistake', has earned her a position in English Literature in her own right，not just as

It’s not easy being Batman. Terry McGinnis dons the Batsuit to fight crime by night, but he still has to be at school in the morning. When Terry gets in trouble for falling asleep in class, his mom grounds him. Now who will watch over the streets of Gotham City? It?s not easy being Batman. Terry McGinnis dons the Batsuit to fight crime by night, but he still has to be at school in the morning. When Terry gets in trouble for falling asleep in class, his mom grounds him. Now who will watch over the streets of Gotham City?

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Book De*ion Let number-one New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts flyyou into Lunacy, Alaska, and into a colorful, compelling new novelabout two lonely souls who find love - and redemtion... Lunacy was Nate Burke's last chance. As a Baltimore cop, he'dwatched his partner die on the street - and the guilt still hauntshim. With nowhere else to go, he accepts the job as chief of policein this tiny, remote Alaskan town, where the peace provides a balmfor his shattered soul - and an unexpected affair with pilot MegGalloway warms his nights... But other things in Lunacy are heating up. Nate suspects thekiller in an unsolved murder still walks the snowy streets. Hisinvestigation will unearth the secrets and suspicions that lurkbeneath the placid surface, as well as bring out the big-citysurvival instincts that made him a cop in the first place. And hisdiscovery will threaten the new life - and the new love - that hehas finally found for herself. "Roberts is among the best popul

M.R.James is probably the finest ghost-story writer England has ever produced.These tales are not only classics of their genre but are also superb examples of beautifully-paced understatement convincing background and chilling terror. As well as the preface there is a fascinating tail-piece by M.R.James Stories i Have Tried to Write which accompanies these thirty tales Among them are Casting the Runes Oh Whistle and lII come to you My Lad The Tractate Middoth the Ash Tree and Canon Alberics Scrapbook.

Melville's short stories are masterpieces. The best are to be appreciated on more than one level and those presented here are rich with symbolism and spiritual depth. Set in 1797, Billy Budd, Foretopman exploits the tension of this period during the war between England and France to create a tale of satanic treachery, tragedy and great pathos that explores human relationships and the inherently ambiguous nature of man-made justice. Tales such as Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Lightning Rod Man, The Tartarus of Maids or I and My Chimney show the timeless poetic power of Melville's writing as he consciously uses the disguise of allegory in various ways and to various ends.

Jack and Annie travel back in time to a South American rain forest in search of the elusive magician Morgan le Fay. Will they find

WThen an infected bolt of cloth carries plagae from London toan isolated mountain viilage, a housemaid named Anna' Frith emergesas an unlikely heroine and healer. ThroUgh Anna s eyes we followthe story" of the plague vear, I666, as her fellow viliagers makean extraordinan choice: convinced by a visionary young, ministerthey elect to quarantine themselves within the village boundariesto arrest the spread of the disease. But as death reaches intoevery household.faith flays. When villagers turn from prayers tomurderous witch-hunting, Anna must confront the deaths of family,,the disintegration of her community, and the lure of illicit love.As she struggles to survive, a year of plague becomes instead arumsmirabilis, a year of wonders."

Deepest night, Montana. An eerie light proclaims the arrival ofa mysterious watcher in the woods. And one solitary man begins adesperate battle against something unknown -- and unknowable. Broad daylight, Los Angeles. An ordinary morningerupts in cataclysmic violence. A young family is shattered in aheartbeat. Fate will lead this family to an isolatedMontana ranch, but their sanctuary will become their worstnightmare. For there they will face a chillingly ruthless enemy,from which no one -- living or dead -- is safe.

There's a new breed of soccer mom in town-with fangs. Doesdrinking blood make me a bad mother? That's the question single momJessica Matthews faces when she wakes from a savage attack suckingon the thigh of Patrick O'Halloran, a super-hot Irish vampire who'dgenerously offered his femoral artery to save her from death...onlyto make her one of the undead. Jessica can't rest until the beastthat did this to her is caught. Meanwhile, she's having troublecommitting to Patrick (in the vampire handbook, physical intimacycosts you several hundred years of being bound together) andkeeping her kids in line.

Jules Verne (1828-1905) possessed that rare storyteller's gift of being able to present the far-fetched and the downright unbelievable in such a way as effortlessly to inspire his reader's allegiance and trust.This volume contains two of his best-loved yarns, chosen from among the sixty-four titles of Les Voyages extraordinaires, Verne's pioneering contribution to the canon of modern Science Fiction. Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) relates the hair-raising journey made as a wager by the Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg, who succeeds - but only just! - in circling the globe within eighty days.The dour Fogg's obsession with his timetable is complemented by the dynamism and versatility of his French manservant, Passepartout,whose talent for getting into scrapes brings colour and suspense to the race against time. Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863) was Verne's first novel. It documents an apocryphal jaunt across the continent of Africa in a hydrogen balloon designed by the omniscient, imperturbable a

Millenia ago, the Old Ones ruled our planet. Since that time, they have but slumbered. But when a massive sea tremor brings the ancient stone city of R'lyeh to the surface once more, the Old Ones awaken at last. The Whisperer in Darkness brings together the original Cthulhu Mythos stories of the legendary horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. Included in this volume are several early tales, along with the classics The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror and At the Mountains of Madness. Arm yourself with a copy of Abdul Alhazred's fabled Necronomican and prepare to face terrors beyond the wildest imaginings of all save H.P. Lovecraft.

This is the bizarre, shocking story of Charles Cullen life, from boyhood all the way through his career. His bizarre behavior did not go unnoticed, and when his startling confession came to light, dozens of families easily recalled the strange nurse, and demanded autopsies immediately. This terrifying and horrific tale continues to unfold as the background work gets underway. George Mair is the author of more than one dozen books, and is also a Hollywood gossip columnist.