Anywhere: the shakespeare book (Keywords)

The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed one of the most fertile epochs in world literature. This anthology offers a broad selection of its poetry, and includes a wide range of works by the great poets of the age - notably Sir...

Who poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorpe, and how did the murderer penetrate and escape from her locked bedroom? Sus-pects abound in the quaint village of Styles St. Mary--from the heiress's fawning new husband to her two stepsons, her volatile housekeeper, and a pretty nurse who works ...

In Flower Net, Lisa See gives us a China not often seen: An extraordinary nation that is at once admirable and frightening. Here the veil is ripped away from modern China—its venerable culture, its teeming economy, its institutionalized cruelty—and the inextricable link between China's fortun...

"So often people ask me if there's a book on story I can recommend. This is the one. I can't recommend it highly enough."--Alexa Junge, writer/producer, Friends, Sex and the City, The West Wing   A master class of 27 lessons, drawn from 27 diverse narratives, for novelists, storytellers, fi...

An in-depth study into the circumstances surrounding Shakespeare's sudden death, with a look at forensics and his death mask. The book examines the means, motive, and opportunity that led to his murder, and explains why Shakespeare had to be 'stopped.'

This Book for HSC students provides a comparative study of William Shakespeare's play, The Tempest and Margaret Atwood's novel, Hag-Seed for the NSW Stage 6 English Year 12 Advanced Module A: Textual Conversations. Throughout this book, students have the opportunity to engage in an enjo...

This HSC student study guide provides a comparative critical study of William Shakespeare's history play, King Richard III and Al Pacino's docudrama, Looking for Richard, for the NSW Stage 6 English Year 12 Advanced Module A: Textual Conversations. Throughout this book, students have the op...

This study guide for HSC students provides a study of William Shakespeare's drama, The Merchant of Venice for the NSW Stage 6 English Year 12 Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences. By engaging in close reading of the play, alongside Susan B. Anthony's 'On Women's Right to Vote', Nam Le...

This title introduces HSC Year 11 students studying the Advanced English Module A: Narratives that shape our world course to the Machiavel as a narrative that has shaped, and continues to shape, our wold. The study provides students the opportunity to engage in a close study of the foll...

This critical study guide engages HSC secondary students in an enjoyable and detailed study of William Shakespeare's Othello using a variety of activities that require them to respond to the play in analytical and creative ways. It will help students studying the Year 11 advanced English modu...

This title for secondary school students introduces students to different approaches they can use to read, analayse, and interpret poems. The study is inclusive of a variety of classic and contemporary poems, and contains works by: William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney, Alexander Pope, Willi...

'So open it anywhere, then anywhere, then anywhere again. We're sure it won't be long before you find a poem that brings you smack into the newness and strangeness of the living present, just as it did us' (from the Introduction) In The Zoo of the New, poets Don Paterson and Nick Laird...

The eighth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries. HAND IN GLOVE The April Fool's Day was a roaring success for all, it seemed - except for poor Mr Cartell who ended up in the ditch - for ever. Then there was the case o...

This book provides a wide-ranging textual study of the notions underpinning the concept of discovery. It provides detailed analysis, questions and exercises for a broad range of discovery texts prescribed for the NSW HSC exam 2015-2020.

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Reissue of a profound exploration of the concept of human need by the esteemed author of On Consolation ________________ 'Michael Ignatieff writes an urgent prose... he will convince people, in highly readable fashion, that the ideas he discusses really matter' Salman Rushdie, Guardian 'Bea...

By his own account, his career has been a series of unpredictable turns of fortune. Born in 1947 in Northern Ireland, he emigrated to New Zealand at the age of seven. His family settled in Dunedin on the South Island, but young Sam was sent away to boarding school in Christchurch, where he wa...

In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world's most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg...