The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Bantam Classic

Salinger --  huckleberry finn, like the river  which flows through its pages, is one of the great  sources which nourished and still nourishes the  literature of America. Bantam Classics. Influencing  subsequent generations of writers -- from Sherwood  Anderson to Twain's fellow Missourian,   T.

S. Hilariously picaresque, alive with  the poetry and vigor of the American people, epic in scope, Mark  Twain's story about a young boy and his journey  down the Mississippi was the first great novel to  speak in a truly American voice. Eliot, from ernest Hemingway and William  Faulkner to J. D.

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The Great Gatsby

West iii to include the author’s final revisions and features a note on the composition and text, a personal foreword by Fitzgerald’s granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan—and a new introduction by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. The great Gatsby, F. Scott fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career.

Great product! First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. A true classic of twentieth-century literature, this edition has been updated by Fitzgerald scholar James L. W. The story of the mysteriously wealthy jay gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession, ” it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.

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PRENTICE HALL LITERATURE 2010 ALL-IN-ONE WORKBOOK GRADE 11

Prentice hall literature includes explicit instruction of skills--reading, vocabulary, literary analysis, and writing conventions--all in the context of the literature students read. The unit introduction includes introducing the Big Question and the unit genre and author. The american experience and British Tradition focus specifically on comparing literary works.

Prentice hall literature is organized around big and essential questions based on the Understanding by Design model by Grant Wiggins. Highly engaging visuals and contemporary lesson designs have been carefully crafted into the program to ensure students will be easily engaged and stay highly motivated as they experience outstanding literature, poetry, and contemporary media.

Prentice hall literature student Edition includes Informational Texts, Writing Workshops, Comparing Literary Works, and end-of-unit activities. Every unit is hosted by an award-winning contemporary author, and the instruction targets specific reading strategies. This "big question" section helps to to get you and your child thinking about important ideas to guide reading.

The literature includes both classic and contemporary selections and the Informational Texts feature has students applying learned skills to real-life. Students frequently revisit these questions throughout lesson activities to deepen their understanding of universal themes. Reader's notebook - interactive workbooks with targeted reading and skill support for every selection in the student edition, grammar, and vocabulary support Selection summaries and guides for note-taking Sentence starters for reading-writing connections "Turbo" vocabulary building tools "Big Question" writing activities All-in-One Workbook - Skills and assessment practice for all students, plus additional full-length selections: Interactive reading, vocabulary, the All-in-One provides: Practice with reading skills, literary analysis, and literary analysis Writing support Test practice Fluency practice Great product!.




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The Scarlet Letter Bantam Classics

Great product! Nathaniel hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, paperback. Set in an early new england colony, passionate act has on the lives of three members of the community: the defiant Hester Prynne; the fiery, tortured Reverend Dimmesdale; and the obsessed, the novel shows the terrible impact a single, vengeful Chillingworth.

With the scarlet letter, hawthorne became the first American novelist to forge from our Puritan heritage a universal classic, a masterful exploration of humanity's unending struggle with sin, guilt and pride. Hailed by henry james as "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country, " Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter reaches to our nation's historical and moral roots for the material of great tragedy.

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Catholic Church through the Ages, The: A History; Second Edition

Writing with the experience of thirty years of teaching, the author has fashioned an ideal text that combines substance with readability. Undergraduates, graduates, and interested lay people have given the author an idea of what topics should be emphasized. As a result, the inquisition, he has emphasized such areas monasticism, French Revolution, the nineteenth century, the Crusades, Reformation, medieval theology, and the Church in the United States.

Great product! Nathaniel hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, paperback. The catholic church through the ages, now in its second edition, is a one-volume survey of the history of the Catholic Church from its beginning until and including the pontificate of Pope Francis. The book explains the church's progress by using christopher Dawson's division of the Church's history into six distinct "ages, " or 350-400 year periods of time, each cycle beginning with great enthusiasm and advancement and ending in decline and loss.

And he has added material on the oxford movement, and the catholic literary revival that took place in several countries in the early twentieth century, John Henry Newman s contributions to the Oxford Movement and to the Catholic intellectual tradition, as well as on the last three popes. As a supplement to each chapter, the author has included an updated the recommended readings and bibliography, as well as the audio-visual materials.

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Democracy in America Signet Classics

Paulist Press. So brilliant and penetrating are his comments and criticisms, they have vital meaning today for all who are interested in democracy. Abridged and with an Introduction by Richard D. He analyzes the influence of political parties and the press on the government and the effect of equality on the social, political, and economic life of the American people.

He also offers some startling predictions about world politics, which history has borne out. Heffnerand an Afterword by Vartan Gregorian Great product! Nathaniel hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, paperback. French nobleman alexis de Tocqueville's classic treatise on the American way of life. Over 175 years ago, an astute political scientist, Alexis de Tocqueville, came to the United States to evaluate the meaning and actual functioning of democracy.

Here, tocqueville discusses the advantages and dangers of majority rule—which he thought could be as tyrannical as the rule of a monarchy.


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My Ántonia Dover Thrift Editions

Paulist Press. Dover Publications. My Ántonia evokes the nebraska prairie life of Willa Cather's childhood, and commemorates the spirit and courage of immigrant pioneers in America. But only when she returns to the prairie does she recover her strength and regain a sense of purpose in life. Nathaniel hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, paperback.

Her story is told through the eyes of Jim Burden, a neighbor who will befriend Ántonia, teach her English, and follow the remarkable story of her life. Working in the fields of waving grass and tall corn that dot the Great Plains, Ántonia forges the durable spirit that will carry her through the challenges she faces when she moves to the city.

Great product! In the quiet, probing depth of willa Cather's art, Ántonia's story becomes a mobbing elegy to those whose persistence and strength helped build the American frontier. One of cather's earliest novels, written in 1918, it is the story of Ántonia Shimerda, who arrives on the Nebraska frontier as part of a family of Bohemian emigrants.

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The Scarlet Letter Dover Thrift Editions

Dover Publications. Its themes of sin, guilt, woven through a story of adultery in the early days of the Massachusetts Colony, and redemption, are revealed with remarkable psychological penetration and understanding of the human heart. Paulist Press. Nathaniel hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, paperback. The result is an american tragedy of stark power and emotional depth that has mesmerized critics and readers for nearly a century and a half.

A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. Arthur dimmesdale, the minister and the secret father of her child, Pearl, struggles with the agony of conscience and his own weakness. Great product! First published in 1850, the scarlet Letter is Nathaniel Hawthorne's masterpiece and one of the greatest American novels.

. Roger chillingworth, hester's husband, revenges himself on Dimmesdale by calculating assaults on the frail mental state of the conscience-stricken cleric. Great product! Hester prynne is the adulteress, forced by the Puritan community to wear a scarlet letter A on the breast of her gown.


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The Catcher in the Rye

Anyone who has read J. D. Nathaniel hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, paperback. The hero-narrator of the catcher in the rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.

Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices--but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. J. D. Paulist Press. Salinger. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.

Great product! Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. Salinger's new yorker stories, uncle wiggily in connecticut, the Laughing Man, and For Esme--With Love and Squalor, particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children.

Great product! First little, Brown and Company mass market paperback edition.


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A Documentary History of the United States: Expanded and Updated Ninth Edition

Heffner and online journalist alexander heffner, this book includes important documents such as:• The complete text of the Declaration of Independence• The complete Constitution of the United States• The Monroe Doctrine• The Emancipation Proclamation• Woodrow Wilson’s War Message to Congress• Franklin D.

Salinger. Roosevelt’s “four freedoms” Speech• John F. The catcher in the Rye. J. D. First little, Brown and Company mass market paperback edition. Dover Publications. Kennedy’s inaugural Address• Martin Luther King, Jr. S “i have a dream” speech• ronald reagan’s inaugural addresses, 1981 and 1985• documents relating to september 11, 2001This edition has been expanded and updated to include a new chapter on the Bush/Cheney Administration and the First and Second Election and Inauguration of Barack Obama as the Forty-Fourth President of the United States More Than One Million Copies Sold! Great product!

Nathaniel hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, paperback. Here, in a single volume, speeches, are the documents, and letters that have forged American history. Accompanied by interpretations of their significance by noted historian and broadcaster Richard D. Great product! .


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Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience, Common Core Edition

J. D. Literature: the american Experience Common Core Edition Great product! Salinger. Paulist Press. First little, Brown and Company mass market paperback edition. Dover Publications. Great product! Nathaniel hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, paperback. The catcher in the Rye.


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