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Best Loved Poems of the American People
$18.95
This is a book I grew up with, so I was delighted to see that the 1936 edition had been brought back into print. Includes 575 poems categorized by theme. My favorite categories are Humor & Whimsey, Poems That Tell a Story, and Patirotism. All ages. Hardcover. 670 pages.
 
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The Harp and Laurel Wreath
$21.95
By Laura Berquist. Poetry and dictation for the classical curriculum. Includes all poetry recommended in "Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum." A wide selection covering ages levels from grades on to twelve. Also includes dictation selections and study questions for each poem.
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Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
$7.95
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Tales from Shakespeare
$4.99
By Charles and Mary Lamb. Retold in charming prose, these tales are an excellent introduction to Shakespeare's plays. They convey all the wit and action of the original plays in understandable language. Includes twenty of Shakespeare's most loved plays. Ages 10+
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Henry V
$2.00
By William Shakespeare (1564-1616). A play of the life of King Henry V (1387-1422) of England and the dynastic disputes of his time as well as the continuing 100 Year's War between England and France. Dover Thrift edition.
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William Shakespeare Great Speeches and Soliloquies CD
$15.95
Forty-five selections of more than 120 minutes from nineteen different Shakespearean plays--Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Henry IV, Henry V, Taming of the Shrew, etc. Each selection is introduced by authentic period music and a brief description of the dramatic setting. All voices are British actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
$1.50
By William Shakespeare. A Dover Thrift Edition.
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Macbeth
$1.50
By William Shakespeare. A Dover Thrift Edition.
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King Lear
$1.50
By William Shakespeare. A Dover Thrift Edition.
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Julius Caesar
$2.00
By William Shakespeare. Unabridged, Dover Thrift Edition.
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The Merchant of Venice
$1.50
By William Shakespeare. A Dover Thrift Edition.
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Romeo and Juliet
$1.50
By William Shakespeare. A Dover Thrift Edition.
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Midsummer Night's Dream
$1.50
By William Shakespeare. A Dover Thrift Edition.
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The Taming to the Shrew
$1.50
By William Shakespeare. A Dover Thrift Edition.
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Antony and Cleopatra
$2.00
By William Shakespeare. A Dover Thrift Edition.
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Selected Poems, Emily Dickenson
$1.50
Over one-hundred of Dickenson's best-known and best-loved poems appear in this small volume. Includes a brief intorductory noe and a handy index of first lines.
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The Raven and 40 Other Poems
$1.50
By Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). Includes, "The Bells," "Ulalume," "Israfel," "To Helen," "The Conqueror Wrom," "Eldorado," "Annabel Lee," and others. Ages 16+.
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Lady Windermere's Fan
$1.50
A delightful play by Ocsar Wilde. Clever dialogue, fast-paced repartee, and pithy epigrams abound in this sparkling Victorian comedy of manners. Wilde offers a splendidly satirical view of society's obsessive regard for appearances rather than reality. A Dover Thrift Edition. Ages 14+.
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Longfellow, Favorite Poems
$1.50
Longfellow is perhaps the greatest American poet. Every child (and adult) should be familiar with the selection s in this small book. Includes "The Village Blacksmith," "The Courtship of Miles Standish," "The Wreck of the Hesprus," "The Children’s Hour," "Paul Revere’s Ride," "Psalm of Life," "Excelsior!", and others. A Dover Thrift Edition. All ages.
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A Child's Garden of Verses
$1.50
By Robert Louis Stevenson. Dover Thrift Edition of this charming collection of 64 chidlren's poems. Includes "The Land of Nod," "My Bed is a Boat," Windy Nights," "My Shadow," "The Swing," and many more. Black and white illustrations. All ages.
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Evangeline and Other Poems
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By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. A narrative poem of tragic romance based on historical events of 1755 in the French territory of Acadia (Nova Scotia). While enjoying some great American poetry, students can learn some of the history that took place in colonial America. Ages 12+.
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John Donne, Selected Poems
$1.50
John Donne (1572-1631) is renowned for both his sacred and secular verse. Seventy-three poems include, "The Good Morrow," "The Canonization," "The Relic," "Death Be Not Proud," "The Triple Fool."
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Pygmalion
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By George Bernard Shaw. Inspired by the ancient Greek tale of "Pygmalion and Galatea,", Shaw wrote his modern drama version of the same story in the early 1900’s. (My Fair Lady is the film version.) Ages 13+.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
$2.00
By Edmund Rostand. Inspiring play of romantic heroism, bravery, self sacrifice, chivalry and wit. Cyrano, a great-hearted fellow and literary gentleman, is in love with the beautiful Roxanne. Young Christian is dashingly handsome (but insipid) and lacks the verbal skill to adequately announce his love to Roxanne. So Christian hires Cyrano to write his love letters for him. A charming, yet heart-rending story ensues. My son, now age 29, liked this play so well that he got in trouble in 7th grade for reading it during math class. (He wasn’t homeschooled.) Ages 13+
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The Importance of Being Earnest
$1.50
A play by Oscar Wilde. A witty comedy of manners that has delighted audiences since it first came to the stage in 1895. Your children will love the clever dialogue, scintillating epigrams and hilarious plot. A Dover Thrift Edition. 12+
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She Stoops to Conquer
$1.50
A play by Oliver Goldsmith. First performed in 1773, this English comedy tells the tale of Kate Hardcastle who poses as a servant girl to win the heart of a shy young gentleman who is too shy to court ladies of his own class Ages 13+.
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Iliad
$2.50
By Homer. Dover Thrift Edition, prose translation by Samuel Butler. The original Greek poem tells the story of the last few days of the Trojan War. 15+
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Oedipus Rex
$1.50
By Sophocles. Unabridged Dover Thrift Edition.
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Prometheus Bound
$2.50
By Aeschylus. Unabridged Dover Thrift Edition.
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Medea
$1.50
By Euripedes. Unabridged Dover Thrift Edition.
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Complete Works of H.W. Longfellow
$7.95
A very good resource for the study of American poetry in general or of Longfellow's poetry in particular. Includes 30 pages of useful annotations in the back. 880 pp. Paperback. Ages 12+.
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The Tempest
$3.99
By William Shakespeare. A romantic play that includes a magician, a monster, a grief-stricken king, a wise old man and a beautiful woman. Thisis a Folger Library illustrated edition with explanatory notes, introduction to Shakespearean language, background on Shakespeare and his times, key to famous lines, and an esssay that looks at "The Tempest" frpm a modern perspective. Ages 14+.
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Great Speeches in History Tapes
$15.95
Over 150 minutes by distinguished British actors. Speeches of Socrates, Demosthenes, Cicero, William of Normandy, Martin Luther, Thomas More, Elizabeth I, Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, William Pitt, Edmund Burke, Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, Thomas Erskine, Lord Macaulay, John Bright, others. 13+
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Murder in the Cathedral
$8.00
By T.S. Eliot (1888-1965). Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this play chronicles the relationship betwen Henry II of England and the Archbishop of Cnaterbury, St. Thomas Becket (1118-1170). Written in a Shakespearean style.
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Antigone
$1.50
By Sophocles, translated by Sir George Young. A classical Greek drama recounting the tragic lives of Antigone, Eteocles and Polynices--children of Oedipus, the king of Thebes. Unabridged, Dover Thrift Edition. Short introduction and brief textual notes. Ages 15 .
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A Midsummer's Night Dream
$2.00
By William Shakespeare. A Dover Thrift Edition.
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