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Cliffscomplete Macbeth
by Sidney Lamb, Christopher Morrow

ISBN 076458572X (0-7645-8572-X)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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In the CliffsComplete guides, the novel's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature.
CliffsComplete Othello makes you familiar with one of the most staged of all of Shakespeare's plays. Othello is a tale of love and betrayal, secrets, passion, and intrigue. Psychology and wit pit strength and virtue against jealousy and evil agendas. The results leave no winners, only tragedy in the lives of the jealous Moor, Othello, and his wife, Desdemona.
Enhance your reading of Othello and save valuable studying time all at once with CliffsComplete Othello. Additional features include:
A summary and insightful commentary for each scene
Bibliography and historical background on the playwright, William Shakespeare
A look at the historical context and structure of the play
Discussions on the play's symbols and themes
A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
Review questions, a quiz, discussion topics (essay questions), activity ideas
A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites
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El Salon De Ambar
by Matilde Asensi

ISBN 8408068563 (84-08-06856-3)
Softcover, Booket

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Le Rouge Et Le Noir
by Stendhal

ISBN 2035881374 (2-03-588137-4)
Softcover, Larousse Editions

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Au rouge des armes, Julien Sorel préfèrera le noir des ordres. Au cours de son ascension sociale, deux femmes se singularisent, comme pour figurer les deux penchants de son caractère : Madame de Rênal - le rêve, l'aspiration à un bonheur pur et simple - et Mathilde de La Mole - l'énergie, l'action brillante et fébrile. A ces composantes stendhaliennes (conception de la vie qui dépasse la stratégie narrative pour s'étendre à l'existence de l'auteur) correspondent deux facettes stylistiques : la sobriété et la restriction du champ de vision. Dans cette Chronique de 1830, bien avant l'existence du cinéma donc, Stendhal alterne les prises de vue pour concilier réalisme et romantisme. Le Rouge et le Noir, portrait social, est également un roman de l'individualité où le regard des personnages sert de philtre au narrateur et où la cristallisation stendhalienne, cette phase irisée De l'amour, trouve un formidable support dans les champs, contrechamps, plongées et contre-plongées. Cette écriture visuelle ajoute à l'analyse une intelligence psychologique profonde. Inversement, le ton dépouillé permet au romantisme d'éviter le lyrisme abusif et de demeurer ironique envers la société sclérosée de la France de la Restauration. --Sana Tang-Léopold Wauters [via]
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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare, Peter Holland, David Bevington

ISBN 1402206887 (1-4022-0688-7)
Softcover, Sourcebooks Inc

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Shakespeare has been called the greatest writer in the English languagebut his language and settings can seem remote and forbidding. Welcome to Black Dogs Graphic Shakespeare Library, where each play comes to life in a new way, panel after illustrated panel.

King Lear is a story of kingship, honor, and bloody revenge. Graphic Shakespeare brings all of the action to vivid life while retaining every word of the original play. King Lear is illustrated in full color by Ian Pollack and includes a synopsis of the play, and an illustrated character list. Its a marvelous way to experience Shakespeare for the first timeor the tenthand is sure to be attractive to students and theatre fans alike. [via]
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Macbeth and Related Readings
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0395775531 (0-395-77553-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin School

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Hardcover: 224 pages Publisher: McDougal Littel (March 25, 1996) Language: English ISBN-10: 0395775531 ISBN-13: 978-0395775530 [via]
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Macbeth: Level 4
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ISBN 0582829992 (0-582-82999-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall

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Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's best and most popular plays. It tells the bloody tale of Scotland's kings 1000 years ago - a tale of witches, murder, and the power of greed. [via]
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Macbeth: Shakespeare Made Easy
by William Shakespeare, Tanya Grosz, Linda Wendler

ISBN 1599051346 (1-59905-134-6)
Softcover, Saddleback Pub

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One of Shakespeare's greatest, but also bloodiest tragedies, was written around 1605/06. Many have seen the story of Macbeth's murder and usurpation of the legitimate Scottish King Duncan as having obvious connection to contemporary issues regarding King James I (James VI of Scotland), and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. King James was particularly fascinated with witchcraft, so the appearance of the witches chanting "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" at the opening of the play seemed particularly topical, as was Macbeth's betrayal of Banquo, from whom James claimed direct descent.
However, the play is clearly far more than a piece of royal entertainment. It is also a fast-moving and dramatically satisfying piece of theatre. Macbeth's existential struggle between loyalty to his King and his "Vaulting ambition" is fascinating to watch, as his is struggle with Lady Macbeth, and her own terrifying refusal of her maternal role. The play shows an intensification of Shakespeare's interest in mothers and their effect upon ruling masculinity, and also contains some of the most memorable speeches in the entire canon, including Macbeth's reflections that ultimately life "is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Macbeth With Readers Guide
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 0877208034 (0-87720-803-4)
Softcover, Amsco School Pubns Inc

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Red and the Black
by Stendhal, Bruce Robbins, Horace Barnett Samuel

ISBN 159308286X (1-59308-286-X)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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Little appreciated in its day, this 1831 classic by Henri Beyle (that was Stendhal's real name) tells the story of the rise and fall of Julien Sorel, a man of affairs in every sense. It's also a scathing indictment of a materialistic society, France under the Bourbons and an irresistible chronicle of love, politics and manners. The book now resides securely on most short lists of the world's great novels. [via]
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The Red and the Black : A Chronicle of 1830
by Marie Henry Bey Stendhal, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff

ISBN 039460511X (0-394-60511-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group

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The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830
by Stendhal

ISBN 0553213571 (0-553-21357-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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A Major New Translation

The Red and the Black, Stendhals masterpiece, is the story of Julien Sorel, a young dreamer from the provinces, fueled by Napoleonic ideals, whose desire to make his fortune sets in motion events both mesmerizing and tragic. Sorels quest to find himself, and the doomed love he encounters along the way, are delineated with an unprecedented psychological depth and realism. At the same time, Stendhal weaves together the social life and fraught political intrigues of postNapoleonic France, bringing that world to unforgettable, full-color life. His portrait of Julien and early-nineteenth-century France remains an unsurpassed creation, one that brilliantly anticipates modern literature.

Neglected during its time, The Red and the Black has assumed its rightful place as one of the worlds great books, and Burton Raffels extraordinary new translation, coupled with an enlightening Introduction by Diane Johnson, helps it shine more brightly than ever before. [via]
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The Red And the Black: A chronicle of the Nineteenth Century
by Donald M. Frame, Frame, Donald Murdoch (AFT), Jonathan Keates, Lloyd C. Parks

ISBN 0451530284 (0-451-53028-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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In December 1827, a French newspaper ran a story about a young man charged with the attempted murder of a married woman. The article fired the imagination of Marie Henri Beyle, and under the pen name Stendhal, he set to writing what was to become one of the great psychological novels of all time. I will be famous around 1880, he predicted in one of his many diaries. I shall not go out of style, nor my glory go out of style.

Set in a provincial French town and in Paris, The Red and the Black tells the story of Julien Sorel, a handsome and brilliant young tutor who is both hero and villain. Cold, opportunistic, and uncompromising with othersincluding his influential mistresshe follows his lust for power and wealth. At the same time, he is tortured by his uncontrollable passions, and by the military and religious forcesthe enigmatic Red and Blackthat dominate French society in the years following the Revolution.

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The Red and the Black : A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century
by Stendhal, Lloyd C. Parks, Donald M. Frame

ISBN 0451517938 (0-451-51793-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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One of the great novels of the century, The Red and the Black is a powerful character study of Julien Sorel, a clever and idealistic young opportunist who attempts to rise above his station through a combination of talent, deception, and hypocrisy. He uses his powers of seduction and charm to secure advancement, only to find himself betrayed by his own passions and outwitted by the larger political and social intrigues of post-Napoleonic France. His doomed quest for fortune and love is both heroic and satirical, reflecting the inner tensions and outer pretensions that result from desiring what is not ours. Stendhal's complex portrayal of his characters' thoughts and feelings was far ahead of his time, earning The Red and the Black recognition as the first modern psychological novel, with Julien as his most brilliant creation and one of the greatest characters in all of literature. [via]
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The Red and the Black: Mimetic Desire and the Myth of Celebrity
by Jefferson Humphries

ISBN 0805783520 (0-8057-8352-0)
Hardcover, Gale Group

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Rojo Y Negro / Red And Black
by Stendhal

ISBN 8420637386 (84-206-3738-6)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa

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Some consider this novel as a contrast between two ages, others say that it refers to luck in the roulette or even to the difference between military and religious life. The certain thing is that its protagonist fights against a society that does not understand him. [via]
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Scarlet and Black
by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Stendhal

ISBN 1857150384 (1-85715-038-4)
Hardcover, Everyman's Library

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In this account of a disillusioned soul failing to come to terms with reality, the novelist recreates the Byronic anti-hero in the context of post-revolutionary France where the church, politics and society itself are in upheaval. [via]
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Scarlet and Black : A Chronicle of 1830
by Stendhal, Jonathan Keates, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff

ISBN 0679405658 (0-679-40565-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group

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Through the stifling society in which wealth and rank triumph over merit moves the impoverished tutor, Julien Sorel. Handsome, sensitive and proud, his shy manner belies a driving ambition to escape the provincial town of Verrieres and forge a way into the drawing-rooms of the Parisian nobility. [via]
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Shakespeare's Macbeth
by Harold Bloom

ISBN 1594480087 (1-59448-008-7)
Softcover, Riverhead Books

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Introducing the Harold Bloom Shakespeare Editions from Riverhead [via]
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Tragedy of Macbeth
by William Shakespeare

ISBN 1419185551 (1-4191-8555-1)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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FIRST WITCH. When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain? SECOND WITCH. When the hurlyburly's done, When the battle's lost and won. THIRD WITCH. That will be ere the set of sun. FIRST WITCH. Where the place? SECOND WITCH. Upon the heath. THIRD WITCH. There to meet with Macbeth. FIRST WITCH. I come, Graymalkin. [via]
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William Shakespeare's Macbeth
by Philip Page, Marilyn Petit

ISBN 0764131400 (0-7641-3140-0)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc

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One of Shakespeare's greatest, but also bloodiest tragedies, was written around 1605/06. Many have seen the story of Macbeth's murder and usurpation of the legitimate Scottish King Duncan as having obvious connection to contemporary issues regarding King James I (James VI of Scotland), and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. King James was particularly fascinated with witchcraft, so the appearance of the witches chanting "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" at the opening of the play seemed particularly topical, as was Macbeth's betrayal of Banquo, from whom James claimed direct descent.
However, the play is clearly far more than a piece of royal entertainment. It is also a fast-moving and dramatically satisfying piece of theatre. Macbeth's existential struggle between loyalty to his King and his "Vaulting ambition" is fascinating to watch, as his is struggle with Lady Macbeth, and her own terrifying refusal of her maternal role. The play shows an intensification of Shakespeare's interest in mothers and their effect upon ruling masculinity, and also contains some of the most memorable speeches in the entire canon, including Macbeth's reflections that ultimately life "is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing". --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Macbeth y Hamlet
by William Shakespeare, Juan Alarcon Benito

ISBN 8484034216 (84-8403-421-6)
Hardcover, Edimat Libros

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Rojo Y Negro / Red And Black
by Stendhal

ISBN 848969320X (84-89693-20-X)
Hardcover, Optima Editorial

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