Offers a selecttion of the master of human comedy's short stories from the 1930s and 1940s.

    His innovative verse and provocative attitudes of spiritual, political, and sexual liberation inspired countless poets, musicians, and visual and performance artists worldwide, and helped shape several generations' views of the world.Selected Poems 1947-1995 commemorates Ginsberg's brilliant career as one of America's most distinguished poets. Here are well-known masterpieces such as the lyric "Howl" and the narrative "Kaddish" -- classic works of American literature -- as well as more recent gems, including the long dream poem "White Shroud," the visionary "After Lalon," and the political rock lyric "The Ballad of the Skeletons," a song he recorded in 1996 with a stellar band that included Philip Glass, Lenny Kaye, and Paul McCartney.

    He’s also a vampire. He lives alone and avoids the other vampires in L.A., but Pete’s simple life goes haywire when he falls for Angie, the cute bartender at a Sunset Strip dive -- and when sinister vampire lord Carson Fitzgerald returns to claim his children, Pete learns that nothing's ever easy for a creature of the night.

    Each story is different and each ends with a surprising twist.

    About, EdmondKing of the MountainsAinsworth, HarrisonTower of LondonAndersen, HansImprovisatoreApuleiusThe Golden AssArabian NightsAucassin and NicoletteAuerbach, BertholdOn the HeightAusten, JaneSense and SensibilityPride and PrejudiceNorthanger AbbeyMansfield ParkEmmaPersuasionBalzac, Honoré de Eugénie GrandetOld GoriotMagic SkinQuest of the AbsoluteBeckford, WilliamHistory of the Caliph VathekBehn, AphraOroonokoBergerac, Cyrano deVoyage to the MoonBjornson, BjornstjerneArneIn God's WayBlack, WilliamDaughter of HethBlackmore, R.D.Lorna DooneBoccaccioDecameron

    He dies with stoic acceptance and a view of the famous summit unseen by any alive. In The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, Francis is too wimpy to face down a wounded lion, let alone satisfy his wife in bed. As always, Hemingway's characters speak of his own self-perceived failures and fears. As often, Hemingway speaks for us all.

    Left unprotected, the vast complex has been a treasure trove for thieves who mercilessly cut off pieces, mutilating thousand-year-old sculptures with chainsaws.Madison knows there is no possibility that this artifact could have been acquired legally. That knock on her door sends her to one of the most dangerous places on the planet: Phnom Penh, the sex-sin-drug capital of the Far East.Stepping into a cauldron of murder and antiquity-looting that takes her from New York to Cambodia, Hong Kong to Thailand, Madison keeps one step ahead of temple robbers who kill as easily as they steal. She finds comfort in the arms of a soldier of fortune; tangles with a Russian model and her stud "bodyguard," who introduce her to the New Eroticism; and gets entangled with a Cambodian prince whose sex moves not even the worldly Madison had tried. But how much is Madison willing to sacrifice in order to protect her priceless, irreplaceable antiquities...?

    The kits were designed for use withlanguage arts students in 6th grade through adult levels. Students follow along on word-for-wordscripts as they listen to the recorded audio drama with full casts and sound effects. The highinterest audio production promotes enthusiastic responses from students. When used as whole-class read-along, the kits solve the age-old problem of some students not reading the assignment.Read-Along Radio Dramas may be used with all language arts areas and ability levels (English,reading, drama, ESL, special education, etc.) to improve reading, writing, listening andvisualization skills.Each kit includes:A cassette recording, a word-for-word script with duplication rights, seven or more studentactivity sheets, discussion/writing questions, answer keys, a literary terms study packet, specificteaching suggestions for the story title, strategies for teaching read-along in the secondaryclassroom, an annotated script of the original story (when major changes are made in theadaptation), and a sample lesson plan.Common classroom uses:Whole-class literature study.Learning Stations -- Individual (home school for instance) or small group activities.Models for writing and producing classroom plays.Emergency Lesson Plans -- When teacher is absent, students are engaged in appropriate activities. RELATED TITLES"The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs"The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe"Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe"Hop-Frog" by Edgar Allan Poe"Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe"Pit & Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe [A Reading]"Love of Life" by Jack London"Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry"Lady or Tiger" by Frank Stockton [A reading]"The Last Leaf" by O. Henry"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain"The Strange Orchid" by H.G. Wells"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant"Horseman in the Sky" by Ambrose Bierce"Chickamauga" by Ambrose Bierce [A Reading]"Headfirst" by Dennis Rhodus"The Long Night" by Lowell D. Blanton"Traffic Incident" by Roger Rittner"After the Battle" by Joseph Altsheler"The Matemaker" by Dennis Rhodus"Heat Lightning" by Robert F. Carroll"The Perfect Touch" by Eli GlassTheatre of the Mind, Writing and Producing Radio Dramas in the Classroom by Don Kisner.Tell-Tale Heart (a Read-Along Radio Drama)Edgar Allan Poe, Don Kisner (Editor)

     The Hugo Award-winning author of such groundbreaking and innovative novels as "Accelerando, Halting State," and "Saturn's Children" delivers a rich selection of speculative fiction- including a novella original to this volume- brought together for the first time in one collection, showcasing the limitless imagination of one of the twenty-first century's most daring visionaries.

    Cain's first novel - the subject of an obscenity trial in Boston and the inspiration for Camus's The Stranger - is the fever-pitched tale of a drifter who stumbles into a job, into an erotic obsession, and into a murder.

    Barrie]- Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower]- The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett]- A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett]- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll]- The King in Yellow [Robert William Chambers]- The Man Who Knew Too Much [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]- The Woman in White [Wilkie Collins]- The Most Dangerous Game [Richard Connell]- On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition [Charles Darwin]- Robinson Crusoe [Daniel Defoe]- The Iron Woman [Margaret Deland]- David Copperfield [Charles Dickens]- Oliver Twist [Charles Dickens]- A Tale of Two Cities [Charles Dickens]- The Double [Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky]- The Hound of the Baskervilles [Arthur Conan Doyle]- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [Arthur Conan Doyle]- The Three Musketeers [Alexandre Dumas]- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [Francis Scott Fitzgerald]- A Room with a View [E. M. Forster]- Dream Psychology [Sigmund Freud]- Tess of the d'Urbervilles [Thomas Hardy]- Siddhartha [Hermann Hesse]- Dubliners [James Joyce]- The Metamorphosis [Franz Kafka]- The Arabian Nights [Andrew Lang]- The Sea Wolf [Jack London]- The Call of Cthulhu [Howard Phillips Lovecraft]- Anne of Green Gables [Lucy Maud Montgomery]- Beyond Good and Evil [Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]- The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Edgar Allan Poe]- The Black Cat [Edgar Allan Poe]- The Raven [Edgar Allan Poe]- Swann's Way [Marcel Proust]- Romeo and Juliet [William Shakespeare]- Treasure Island [Robert Louis Stevenson]- The Elements of Style [William Strunk Jr.]- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer [Mark Twain]- The Prince and the Pauper [Mark Twain]- The Kama Sutra [Vatsyayana]- A Journey into the Center of the Earth [Jules Verne]- The Mysterious Island [Jules Verne]- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea [Jules Verne]- The War of the Worlds [H. G. Wells]- The Time Machine [H. G. Wells]- The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde- The Voyage Out by Virginia WoolfAlso available : 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 (Golden Deer Classics)Classics Authors Super Set Serie 1 (Golden Deer Classics)

    The years pass but no one looks any older. One night a doctor tells the story of a young woman who gives birth to a baby in the most horrible way! Evil psychic powers, obsession and the supernatural in the most ordinary, everyday places. A spine-chiller from the master of horror.

    But from the other side of the world someone is planning to take him out of the game forever. A deadly assassin is on his trail and his former handler has been brutally murdered. It seems that David Webb must once again turn to Jason Bourne to save his life and his family...THE BOURNE BETRAYAL: Jason Bourne takes a mission to rescue his only friend in the CIA, Martin Lindros, who disappeared in Africa while tracking nuclear shipments. Once safely back in America, Lindros persuades Bourne to help track the money trail of terrorists buying the nuclear material. But is the man he saved really Martin Lindros? Suddenly Bourne is on his own - gathering evidence, while trying to stay one step ahead of the terrorists who are determined to destroy the USA...THE BOURNE SANCTION: When an unknown terrorist organisation comes up on Central Intelligence radar, they have no choice but to employ a rogue agent capable of hunting down a shadowy terrorist mastermind on his own - Jason Bourne. Suddenly Bourne is plunged into the deadliest and most tangled operation of his double life: pursuing the head of a murderous terror group, while an assassin as brilliant and damaged as himself is getting closer by the minute...

    A gripping thriller from the author of the Goodfellowe Series.

    As they travel, they discover how cruel the world can be, but also how wondrous.