In 1951 America, during the second year of the Korean War, Marcus Messner, a studious young man from Newark, New Jersey, escapes his butcher father's fears about the potential dangers facing his beloved son, by attending college at Ohio's pastoral, conservative Winesburg College, where he confronts ...
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In order to dramatize the theme that all people and events in the universe are connected, DeLillo presents several narrators and a series of chronologically dislocated events. Additionally, history and facts scattered throughout the novel connect the reader to DeLillo's fictional world. After the r ...
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Accidentally separated at birth in the late 1940s, twin brothers grow up apart--one becoming a Vietnam war hero and successful bank executive, the other making his mark as a noted lawyer and politician--until they are once again reunited by fate. Simultaneous.
The English legal system is the main object of Dickens's satire in BLEAK HOUSE, perhaps the first legal thriller, which centers on the interminable case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce as it makes its tortuous way over the generations through the Court of Chancery. The battle drags on, the litigants are ru ...
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Planning to will the largest portion of his kingdom to the daughter who can articulate her filial love most effectively, King Lear is furious when his youngest of three daughters, the unwed Cordelia, simply states "I cannot heave my heart into my mouth." As the elder sisters, Regan and Goneril, each ...
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One of Shakespeare's final works, Cymbeline uses virtuoso theatrical and poetic means to dramatize a story of a marriage endangered by mistrust and painfully rebuilt, in a context of international conflict. This edition emphasizes the play's theatrical impact and pays close attention to its complex, ...
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A follow up to the graphic novel, Road to Perdition, finds an adult Michael O'Sullivan returning to Chicago to resume his long-standing feud with the Capone mob, for which he risks his life to become an aide to Frank Nitti. Reprint.
Jubee and his two friends find a time machine made by Thomas Edison. They go back in time to 1929. Jubee wants to make a billion dollars in the market. He also wants to stop the crash of the market and stop the second world war.
Cheated of his inheritance by his scheming stepmother, sixteen-year-old Gerald Lane goes to work for a lawyer who sends him on a perilous mission to Montana to recover stolen money.