Works

Earliest Publication Date

2012

Summary

43) "Thou, dear God": prayers that open hearts and spirits

An unprecedented and timely collection that captures the global vision of Dr. King--in his own words. Too many people continue to think of Dr. King only as "a southern civil rights leader" or "an American Gandhi, " thus ignoring his impact on poor and oppressed people around the world. ""In a Single Garment of Destiny"" is the first book to treat King's positions on global liberation struggles through the prism of his own words and activities. From...

Author

Earliest Publication Date

2012

44) 'Salem's Lot

Author

King, Stephen, 1947-

Earliest Publication Date

1975

Summary

The town knew darkness ... and the awful, heavy silence of terrifying images grotesquely dancing in and out of the shadows ... and stark white faces, huge empty eyes and long gnarled hands that reached out with lustful insistence ... and the paralyzing fear of a diabolical corruption and a hideous peril more dreadful than death. Salem's Lot is a small New England town with the usual quota of gossips, weirdos and respectable folk. Of course there...

45) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court

Author

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

Earliest Publication Date

1901

Summary

Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975

"The book relates the tale of Hank Morgan, an engineer from 19th century Hartford Connecticut, who is inexplicably transported to the early medieval England of King Arthur. While there he uses his knowledge of modern technology to appear as though he is a magician. Despite his best intentions, Hank?s attempts to modernize the past bring about a tragic end. A bittersweet depiction of the Arthurian legend through the eyes of a 19th century American..."...

46) A gathering of fugitives

Author

Earliest Publication Date

1977

47) A gift of love: sermons from strength to love and other preachings

Author

Earliest Publication Date

2012

48) All's well that ends well

Author

Earliest Publication Date

1901

Summary

"Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well is the story of its heroine, Helen, more so than the story of Bertram, for whose love she yearns. Helen wins Bertram as her husband despite his lack of interest and higher social standing, but she finds little happiness in the victory as he shuns, deserts, and attempts to betray her. The play suggests some sympathy for Bertram. As a ward to the French king, he must remain at court while his friends go off to...

49) All labor has dignity

Author

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940

Earliest Publication Date

2011

50) All the sad young men

Author

Earliest Publication Date

1926

Summary

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

A 1926 collection of nine stories of "fine insight and finished craft" from the acclaimed author of The Great Gatsby (The New York Times). Experience the Roaring Twenties through the mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest American writers with these nine short stories. Included are tales of wealthy eccentrics and unrequited love like "Winter Dreams" and "Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les." A woman who marries for money must handle...

51) American notes and Pictures from Italy

Author

Earliest Publication Date

1970

52) A midsummer night's dream

Author

Earliest Publication Date

1897

Summary

The original play by Shakespeare's drama telling how Demetrius and Lysander love Hermia, Hermia loves Lysander but is betrothed to Demetrius, much to her dismay. And no one loves Helena, though her heart belongs to Demetrius. When Hermia and Lysander escape escape through the forest to elope, Demetrius chases them, and Helena chases Demetrius. With the magic of the forest bewitching the hand of fate, perhaps their dream of love will come true.

53) A Midsummer night's dream

Earliest Publication Date

1987

Summary

Shakespeare's play about devilish fairies, bedeviled lovers and tradesmen-actors. Plots intertwine as entangled love affairs, the comical performance of a "play within a play" by the tradesmen of Athens, and the antics in fairyland among King Oberon and his queen Titania produce a bizarre series of entanglements, but all ends happily.

54) A midsummer night's dream

Earliest Publication Date

2003

Summary

Greene, Graham, 1904-1991

Three plots intertwine: the entangled love affairs of Demetrius and Helena, Lysander and Hermia, the comic performance of a "play within a play" by the tradesmen of Athens and the antics in fairyland of King Oberon and Queen Titania.

55) Another Mexico

Author

Earliest Publication Date

1982

56) Antony & Cleopatra

Earliest Publication Date

1987

Summary

A dramatization of Shakespeare's famous play which explores the calamitous consequences of an overwhelming passion by telling the story of Antony, the once-heralded leader who becomes stupified with passion and degenerates into a fool, and the multi-faceted Cleopatra.

57) Antony and Cleopatra

Author

Earliest Publication Date

1901

Summary

58) Aristotle's Eudemian ethics: books I, II, and VIII

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.

Author

Aristotle

Earliest Publication Date

1982

59) As you like it

Author

Earliest Publication Date

1901

Summary

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

"Much of the action takes place on an almost clinically bare stage, and the fear and violence in the usurping Duke's court, where everyone wears formal black Elizabethan dress, is chilling. With his lame eye and air of festering resentment, Sandy Neilson's Duke Frederick has a touch of the psychotic about him ... Boyd ... shows us the bloody reality of rural life as the shepherd Corin (excellent Geoffrey Freshwater) slowly skins and beheads a dead...

60) A tale of two cities

Author

Earliest Publication Date

1859

Summary