Alice begins ger adventures when she follows the frantically late White Rabbit down a hole into the magical world of Wonderland

The world according to David Ives is a very add place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language -- and of the audience's capacity for disorientation and delight. Ives's characters plunge into black holes called "Philadelphias," where the simplest desires are hilariously thwarted. Chimps named Milton, Swift, and Kafka are locked in a room and made to re-create Hamlet. And a con man peddles courses in a dubious language in which "hello" translates as "velcro" and "fraud" comes out as "freud"

In this collection of engaging and entertaining mini-comic books, students share in the adventures of time traveler Scooter McGinty as he celebrates Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims, rides through Lexington with Paul Revere, joins Lewis & Clark`s Corps of Discovery, supports women`s rights, and more. Includes background notes and teaching ideas

The book narrates a story of people who immigrated to New World. The story is based on a diary of a young girl. Good supplement material for country-study classes

The book portrays life in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during the period 1830–32. The main hero is Dorothea Brooke, an idealistic woman

These schort stories are about Love. And at the end of these stories we might be no nearer knowing what love is

Tales of wonder are as old as the hills. These stories send us travelling through time and space, confronting us with new dangers, new dilemmas

Das Buch ist über das Emigrantenschicksal mit einer Liebesgeschichte und wirft die Frage auf, ob der einzelne in einer Zeit der gesetzlosigkeit das Recht zur Notwehr gegen Unterdrückung und Vervolgung besitzt

The book concers the time during the French revolution

One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twain`s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur`s Court begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians of King Arthur`s Camelot