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The First Part of King Henry the Sixth is one of Shakespeare's history plays, believed written in approximately 1588-1590. It is the first in the cycle of four plays often referred to as "The First Tetralogy".The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth, or Henry VI, Part 2, is a history play by William...

...The way kids get "it"…By William Poy Lee, the author of the acclaimed memoir "The Eighth Promise," Portsmouth Square Stories is a bricolage of childhood remembrances circa the late 1950s: of beatnik families, Barbary Coast strippers, kids catching baby crabs barehanded and shiners with...

The names William Bligh, Fletcher Christian, and the Bounty have excited the popular imagination for more than two hundred years. The story of this famous mutiny has many beginnings and many endings but they all intersect on an April morning in 1789 near the island known today as Tonga. That morning,...

The 112th New York Infantry Regiment served 1,017 days during the Civil War, from 1862 to 1865. They campaigned in four states, fought in 16 battles and lost 324 men, including two regimental commanders. This unit history is based on the personal papers of Chaplain William Lyman Hyde, including his...

América Latina y su riqueza en palabras de William Ospina. #Nuestra América es todavía el reino de la perplejidad, y a ello contribuyen por igual las tensiones y los desajustes entre la realidad y el lenguaje, los mestizajes y los sincretismos. No deja de ser asombroso que estas tierras...

"Plant one bamboo shoot-cut bamboo for the rest of your life." William Boyd's prolific, fruitful career is a testament to this old Chinese saying. Boyd penned his first book review in 1978-the proverbial bamboo shoot-and we've been reaping the rewards ever since. Beginning with the Whitbread...

"To the Queen" (or "To The Queen by the players") is a short 18 line poem praising Queen Elizabeth I attributed to William Shakespeare. The poem, described by Bate as having been written on "the back of an envelope", was probably composed...

The Tragedy of Macbeth (commonly called Macbeth) is a play written by William Shakespeare. It is considered one of his darkest and most powerful tragedies. Set in Scotland, the play dramatizes the corroding psychological and political effects produced when its protagonist, the Scottish lord Macbeth,...

Venetian Life by the American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright,William Dean Howells.William Dean Howells was born on MHe was the second of eight children. His father was a newspaper editor and printer, who moved frequently around Ohio.

If you're looking for a taster of William Meikle's work, this is who he is. These seven short stories, all previously published in magazines or anthologies, contain magic, monsters, ghosts, history, beer, Scotland, scifi, fantasy, horror, singing, more beer and fun. This is who he is.

Declared Outlaw. Banished from home. No future. But Asgrim is going to prove them all wrong. Read the medieval dark fantasy horror tale that Amazon voted a 2014 Breakthrough Novel Award Quarter-Finalist! Banned for killing the son of the jarl, Viking warband leader...

This volume includes complete works by John Awdeley, Thomas Harman, William Hazlitt, and others. The first work, “The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare’s Youth, itself, is a collection that includes “Fraternitye of Vacabondes,” by John Awdeley, and “Caveat,” by Thomas Harman,...

The “magnificent” Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times–bestselling novel about the preacher who led America’s bloodiest slave revolt (The New York Times). The Confessions of Nat Turner is William Styron’s complex and richly drawn imagining of Nat Turner, the leader of the...

From the dark and twisted imagination of author William Todd Rose comes twofree e-books guaranteed to thrill and delight. In each volume lies a mini-collection of stories which gives the reader a unique peek into the mind of the writer The Google+ Insider's Guide named as one of their top 32 authors...