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The most delightful and magical of Shakespeare's comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream was an instant success with its Elizabethan audiences and critics, who were particularly entertained by the broad comedy of the tradesmen and the jokes and tricks of the fairy kingdom. One measure of the play's popularity has been its value to other poets and playwrights as a model for imitation and a source for borrowing.

In this volume, the Introduction describes the critical response to A Midsummer Night's Dream from around 1598 to the present day, while the documentary section runs from 1775 to 1920 and includes work by British, American, and European critics. This includes eighty five separate items, providing a comprehensive review of the critical literature. Contents include: The criticism of Malone, Steevens, Schlegel, Hazlitt, Coleridge, Ruskin, Taine, Dowden, Swinburne, Shaw, Brandes, Beerbohm, Chesterton, Bjornson and Croce. ... Read more

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Everytime the poor girl mends the broken porcelain vase it becomes something different, providing the means of escaping from her dreary existence of mending junk. ... Read more

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A classic children's story of triumph over fear.
I read this to my children and it is one story they always remember and talk about.Richard Kennedy does not write down to children. This makes his books equally enjoyable for adults to read.This story trulyfrightened us as we read it, but the young hero faces his fears and keepshis wits about him, and the human spirit triumphs over the monster. A wordof caution: this storycould be a bit too scary for a young, easilyfrightened child. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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A camp director with more than thirty years' experience answers everything parents and kids need to know about summer camps, from obtaining brochures to packing the trunk, and includes a list of the top fifty camps in America. Original. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1840Original Publisher: Richard BentleySubjects: AfghanistanAfghan WarsHistory / Asia / GeneralHistory / Military / GeneralHistory / Military / World War IIHistory / Military / United StatesHistory / Military / OtherHistory / Asia / Central AsiaTechnology ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Jim O'Malley is sent to live with his wealthy uncle Martin in Cloghanmore, however he finds an empty, run-down house and no-one who can tell him where his uncle has gone. Jim sets out to solve the mystery of his missing uncle, unravelling a tale of greed, mistrust and theft. ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:UNEXPECTED SUMMONSCHAPTER II.March to join head-quarters.—Vast area covered by our baggage-train.—First view of Ghizni.—Amusing military metamorphosis.—Attack on Ghizni commenced.—Ineffectual firing of the enemy.—Orders to move ground.— Strange combination of the sweet and terrible.—Ancient minarets.—Great merit of the capture of Ghizni.—Mismanagement of the enemy — their formidable wall- guns.—Intelligence from Dost Mahomed's nephew.— Enemy assemble in our rear.—Prisoners beheaded by Shah Soojah.—Horrible mode of execution—its injustice.—Discreditable position of the British officials.On Saturday, the 20th July, we had dined, and were anticipating a night's rest, but in homely phraseology we were " reckoning without our host;" for about eight in the evening arrived an express from the advance, directing our immediate march to join head-quarters. We had made a stage of sixteen miles in seven hours in the morning; that is to say, first bugle a quarter to one o'clock, march atTO ADVANCE. 23two o'clock, and arrival after nine o'clock, — a weary journey! Happy for those who had slept through the day; I had not. The bugle sounded, the line formed, and we marched at nine o'clock, and travelled till midnight, a distance under eight miles. We were told that the advanced columns were close to us, and we saw the fires of their pickets; and a line was assigned us to stretch our weary limbs on the ground, and snatch the brief repose allowed until daybreak, when we were again to advance. Scarcely, however, had we made ourselves as comfortable as a military cloak on the bare heath, with a stone for a pillow, would allow, —and many a tune have I less enjoyed a luxurious bed, with all the voluptuous appliances of repose, than I now blessed, my mother earth below, and the canop... ... Read more

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Coumarins: Biology, Applications and Mode of Action predominantly focuses on the parent compound, coumarin, and its main metabolite in humans, 7-hydroxycoumarin. It describes in detail every facet of these compounds including history, toxicology, chemistry, metabolism, analysis, clinical, veterinary and other applications, their roles as immunomodulatory agents and speculates on their mode of action. ... Read more

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One of the most enduring characters in Thomas Wolfe's fiction is Francis Starwick, the midwestern aesthete who befriends Eugene Gant at Harvard in Wolfe's second autobiographical novel, Of Time and the River.In the process of organizing Wolfe's massive manuscript for publication, however, editor Maxwell Perkins deleted some of the analyses of Starwick's behavior and several of the episodes involving Eugene and Starwick.The result was that the relationship between the two young men was not as fully developed as Wolfe had originally planned.Richard S. Kennedy discovered these excised passages among the Wolfe papers at Harvard University's Houghton Library.In The Starwick Episodes he has arranged them sequentially and indicated their position in the original manuscript.In one of them Starwick introduces Eugene to Joyce's Ulysses, and in another he takes him to view the paintings in Boston's Museum of Fine arts.Additional scenes find the two exploring the lower depths of Paris until at length their true sexual natures are revealed in a visit to a Parsian brothel.Kennedy's research also uncovered the story of the life of Kenneth Raisbeck, the young man whom Wolfe used as the starting point for his fictional creation of Starwick.In his Introduction, Kennedy describes Raisbeck's career, both its brilliant promise and its tragic end, and his similarity to the character in the novel. ... Read more

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Written with humor and spirit, this foolproof guide to finding the perfect summer experience has been fully updated and includes two all-new sections on choosing specialty and day camps. Features nine new camp profiles. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more