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THE CLASSIC ONE-VOLUME SHAKESPEARE,
INCLUDING ALL THE PLAYS AND POEMS,
NOW COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED
The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series has sold five million copies. Now Penguin is proud to offer this fully revised new hardcover edition of The Complete Pelican Shakespeare.
Since the series debuted more than forty years ago, developments in scholarship have revolutionized our understanding of William Shakespeare, his time, and his works. With new editors who have incorporated the most up-to-date research and debate, this revised edition of The Complete Pelican Shakespeare will be the premier choice for students, professors, and general readers for decades to come.
The general editors of the series-world-renowned Shakespeareans Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA - devoted seven years to preparing introductions and notes with a team of eminent scholars to the forty volumes of Shakespeare's plays and poems. Now, the new series is complete and available in one lavish and complete edition.
* Authoritative and meticulously researched texts
* Illuminating new introductions and notes by distinguished authors
* Essays on Shakespeare's life, the theatrical world of his time, and the selection of texts
* A handsome new design inside and out * Deluxe packaging, including a full-linen case, ribbon marker, Smyth-sewn binding, printed endpapers, acid-free paper, and illustrations throughout
* Photos and drawings reflecting Shakespeare's theatrical legacy
* Line numbers marking every tenth line and footnote references
* Both glossorial and explanatory notes appearing conveniently at the foot of the page
Customer Reviews:
The most readable edition.......2007-08-05
I have several complete Shakespeare editions, and the Pelican stands out as the most readable I own. The book is, of course, large and thick, but the paper is not see-through, and the type is large enough for those of us with aging eyes. The text is in two columns with footnotes at the bottom of each column, making it easy to skip from words to notes and back again.
Best of all, as an owner of the Arkangel Shakespeare on CD, the Pelican is the text they use for these recordings, so following the text in print when listening to those excellent audio versions is perfect with this edition. While there is not a lot of critical apparatus - any Shakesperean worth his or her salt already has several books analyzing the plays - this volume offers a great readability for its cost. A must-have.
Complete.......2007-03-11
works really well if you are taking multiple classes with Shakespeare as required reading or if you just love Shakespeare in general
Stick to this one.......2007-01-21
After reading the Pelican edition of The Merchant of Venice, I knew this was the Complete Shakespeare edition I wanted to buy. The footnotes are excellent and the essays are a great introduction to the plays, especially to the beginner Shakespeare reader. For a deeper and more detailed review of each book, I would recommend Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare.
Best Ever.......2006-11-15
I have three different Complete Works of Shakespeare and this one is the best. It has great footnotes and intoductions. The cover does get damaged pretty fast, which is the only draw back I see. It doesn't break, but gets dirty. I'm not sure why, but everyone in my class has dirty books.
The Complete Pelican Shakespeare.......2006-11-06
This is the most complete and most helpful book of Shakespeare I have encountered. Foot notes are excellent.. I will never read Shakespeare from another publisher.
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Rosie Cox
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Dear Reader,
One ting about Cedar Grove -- people sure are interested in what other people are doing. Take me, for instance. Everybody in the town knows that my husband, Zach, and I recently got a divorce. Everybody also know that Judge Olivia Lockhard decreed a pretty unusual custody arrangement. It won't be the kids moving between my place and Zach's. We're the ones who'll be going back and forth!
Olivia isn't immune to gossip herself. Will she stay with Jack, the guy who runs our local paper, or will she get back with her ex? Inquiring minds want to know!
But the really big gossip has to do with the dead guy -- the man who died at a local bed-and-breakfast. Who is he and why did he show up there in the middle of the night? Roy McAfee, our local private investigator, is absolutely determined to find out. I hope he does -- and then I'll let you know! See you soon. . .
Rosie
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Cedar Cove Series.......2007-10-09
I bought the 7 books in the Cedar Cove series. Debbie Macomber is a vivid writer and Cedar Cove sounds like a wonderful place to live and visit.
16 Lighthouse Road.......2007-09-28
As an 82 year old Senior Citizen I enjoyed this book so much I have recently ordered and received the entire series.
WHAT AN EXECELLENT WRITTER!.......2007-07-19
OooooYeahhhhhhhhhhh! What more can you look for in a book that is giving you everything. In this third book, Debbie made the series look more interesting by showing care, happiness, disappointment and so much more.
I canot tell you more, Just get the Book for yourself and enjoy it.
I did enjoy it and I know you will too.
no review possible.......2007-04-02
I have not received this item yet. what is the hold up??
311 Pelican Court.......2007-01-11
This book is part of a series that I truly enjoyed. It's light reading but fun. I've completed the Cedar Cove series and am waiting for the next installment.
If you are looking for a group of feel good stories I recommend the Cedar Cove Series by Debbie Macomber.
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The Pelican Brief
John Grisham
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John Grisham's head was full of movies when he wrote The Pelican Brief, which is such a brisk page-turner you could use it to dry your hair. He had Julia Roberts in mind for the heroine, Darby Shaw, a brilliant Tulane law student who comes up with an ingenious theory to explain the baffling assassinations of two Supreme Court justices in one day. They were shot and strangled by ace international terrorist Khamel, who loves the film Three Days of the Condor, but government gumshoes don't get what connects the deaths. Silly government guys! They died so the conservative president, who just wants to be left alone to play golf, will appoint new, conservative justices who will help out a case involving an industrialist who is the enemy of pelicans and other living things. It's all spelled out for them in Darby's brief. She likes to do legal feats to impress her boyfriend, her boyish law prof Thomas (who, like Grisham, prefers to shave at most once a week, and is cool, smart, and antiauthoritarian). The prof likes to paint her toes red, in homage to Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham. (Sarandon also starred in the film version of Grisham's The Client.)
But when Thomas gets splattered by a car bomb meant for Darby, she escapes the hospital and hooks up with a Washington Post reporter, Gray Grantham, who sleuths like the guys in All the President's Men.
Grisham wishes he hadn't written The Pelican Brief quite so quickly (his first novel, A Time to Kill, went through dozens of drafts), but Pelican's very breathlessness contributes to its dreamy, cinematic chase-o-rama atmosphere.
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Anthony Heald gives an uncommonly compelling performance narrating this fast-paced legal thriller. The action begins with the fierce assassinations of two Supreme Court justices. Too unlikely to be coincidental, the murders have no identifiable connection until a young law student uncovers a hidden link, exposing herself and those around her to deadly consequences. Heald uses the flexibility of his voice to conjure up a large cast of diverse characters. He crafts his delivery expertly, heightening the already substantial suspense and carrying the story to its dramatic conclusion. (Running time: 6 hours, 4 cassettes) --George Laney
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In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly garroted to death... The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief... To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. To the Washington establishment it was political dynamite. Suddenly Darby is witness to a murder -- a murder intended for her. Going underground, she finds there is only one person she can trust -- an ambitious reporter after a newsbreak hotter than Watergate -- to help her piece together the deadly puzzle. Somewhere between the bayous of Louisiana and the White House's inner sanctums, a violent cover-up is being engineered. For somone has read Darby's brief. Someone who will stop at nothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkable crime.
Customer Reviews:
Definitely something you can't stop reading.......2007-08-16
Very interesting plot, just probably a little bit unrealistic in certain passages, but awesome in the way the plot is progressively revealed and the truths behind the machinations investigated by the main characters are unveiled. Also, very interesting legal component.
The Pelican Brief.......2007-02-23
Drunk, he hobbles towards the car. His date is only a few steps behind, yells at him to let her drive. "No!" the drunk man screams. "I won't get in the car with you!" she screams, tears streaming down her face. "Have fun walking home!" he shouts. "Your drunk!" she screams. "I can drive better drunk than you can sober!" he hollers back. He reaches the car, she pleads with him one last time to let her drive. He refuses. As he gets into the car, it explodes. The girl is fazed, who would do this? She decides that the bomb must have also been meant for her. Her date, Thomas Callahan and her constitutional law professor, never did anything to upset people to the point that they would kill him. She, Darby Shaw, had written a brief about why she thinks that two Supreme Court justices where murdered. Thomas had said that he had given the brief to his friend in the FBI. Darby goes into hiding, she makes contact with the FBI officer who Thomas gave the brief to. He is murdered the night before they were suppose to meet. Darby continues to hide, as she is being hunted by people who plan to kill her. Finally, she contacts The Washington Post reporter Gray Grisham and with her information they collect enough evidence to make the biggest news break since Watergate. The Pelican Brief by John Grishman is a complex and suspenseful novel which is a little confusing to read.
This novel has many, many characters, it makes hard to keep track of the story line. There is a lot of characters that have no purpose or very small purposes, one is Eric Easton. He was mentioned maybe twice in the whole story. You get so confused that its possible to get K.O. Lewis, a FBI agent, and L. Matthew Barr, the person hired to oversee killing Darby, mixed up. Some characters are rarely mentioned and some seem to spontaneously appear.
Readers do not find out what is in the Pelican Brief until you are about two-hundred pages into the story. This causes it to be suspenseful because you do not know why people are killing people. The many deaths also cause it to be suspenseful as well, it adds to the "why" factor. Other than the two Supreme Judges, Rosenburg and Jensen, a FBI agent, Gavin Verheek, is murdered and then the expert murder for hire who killed the last three people named, Khamel, is murdered.
When this happens, Darby believes him to be Verheek. After they plan to meet, Verheek is murdered by Khamel. Then Khamel pretends to be Verheek and meets Darby. As they are walking together, Khamel is trying to find a spot to kill Darby then he is shot. Randomly shot, you don't know who shot him, how they recognized him or anything. It becomes very unclear. Another thing that might puzzle readers is that there isn't a clear path between how Darby and Grantham find out their information. It isn't easy to grasp how they get from one informant to another.
This book is slightly confusing to read, and is complex and suspenseful. It has lots of characters, Grisham withholds vital information, and has some confusing incidents. Although, it does have a very engrossing plot and I would recommend it only for people who are very avid readers who enjoy complicated mysteries and thrillers.
C. Shipman
The Pelican Brief.......2007-02-23
Drunk, he hobbles towards the car. His date is only a few steps behind, yells at him to let her drive. "No!" the drunk man screams. "I won't get in the car with you!" she screams, tears streaming down her face. "Have fun walking home!" he shouts. "Your drunk!" she screams. "I can drive better drunk than you can sober!" he hollers back. He reaches the car, she pleads with him one last time to let her drive. He refuses. As he gets into the car, it explodes. The girl is fazed, who would do this? She decides that the bomb must have also been meant for her. Her date, Thomas Callahan and her constitutional law professor, never did anything to upset people to the point that they would kill him. She, Darby Shaw, had written a brief about why she thinks that two Supreme Court justices where murdered. Thomas had said that he had given the brief to his friend in the FBI. Darby goes into hiding, she makes contact with the FBI officer who Thomas gave the brief to. He is murdered the night before they were suppose to meet. Darby continues to hide, as she is being hunted by people who plan to kill her. Finally, she contacts The Washington Post reporter Gray Grisham with her information. Together they collect enough information to make the biggest news break since Watergate. The Pelican Brief by John Grishman is a complex and suspenseful novel which is a little confusing to read.
This novel has many, many characters, it makes hard to keep track of the story line. There is a lot of characters that have no purpose or very small purposes, one is Eric Easton. He was mentioned maybe twice in the whole story. You get so confused that its possible to get K.O. Lewis, a FBI agent, and L. Matthew Barr, the person hired to oversee killing Darby, mixed up. Some characters are rarely mentioned and some seem to spontaneously appear.
Readers do not find out what is in the Pelican Brief until you are about two-hundred pages into the story. This causes it to be suspenseful because you do not know why people are killing people. The many deaths also cause it to be suspenseful as well, it adds to the "why" factor. Other than the two Supreme Judges, Rosenburg and Jensen, a FBI agent, Gavin Verheek, is murdered and then the expert murder for hire who killed the last three people named, Khamel, is murdered.
When this happens, Darby believes him to be Verheek. After they plan to meet, Verheek is murdered by Khamel. Then Khamel pretends to be Verheek and meets Darby. As they are walking together, Khamel is trying to find a spot to kill Darby then he is shot. Randomly shot, you don't know who shot him, how they recognized him or anything. It becomes very unclear. Another thing that might puzzle readers is that there isn't a clear path between how Darby and Grantham find out their information. It isn't easy to grasp how they get from one informant to another.
This book is slightly confusing to read, and is complex and suspenseful. It has lots of characters, Grisham withholds vital information, and has some confusing incidents. Although, it does have a very engrossing plot and I would recommend it only for people who are very avid readers who enjoy complicated mysteries and thrillers.
C. Shipman
Spellbinding.......2007-02-22
I read the book and then watched the movie. I enjoyed both very much, but I think the book is better. I really like the way John Grisham writes.
The pelican bried.......2006-11-22
The Pelican Brief is about how two Supreme Court justices who get murdered on the same night, and why they were murdered. A law student named Darby writes a brief explaining why the two judges were killed. Darby's brief which started out as just a crazy idea ends up hitting it spot on. So now she's on the run for her life. The book gets a little confusing with all the characters and all the information it sometimes hard to keep up. Overall it was a good read. If you like fast pace books with plenty of information the Pelican Brief is the book for you!
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This classic survey of Italian Renaissance architecture ranges from the erection of Brunelleschi`s dome for the Florence Cathedral to the works of Bramante and Leonardo in the Quattrocentro. First published in 1974 as part one of Architecture in Italy, 1400-1600, Heydenreich`s text is now accompanied by a critical introduction and updated bibliography by Paul Davies.
Customer Reviews:
Only useful for the specialist........2003-02-10
This book is considered to be "the great survey" of early Renaissance architecture, and is, in fact, the only one that has ever been written covering the subject (except for a 1998 book in Italian that is really more a collection of articles). I find this lack of surveys rather surprising as Renaissance architecture is one of the most well-loved subjects in art history, and I would think that specialists, students, and laymen would demand a simple World of Art kind of treatment of the topic. The Pelican series generally does not provide this type of clear, thesis-driven introductory text, and Heydenreich's book is no exception. It is a collection of facts--a catalog of "this building was built then and it shows influence from that and the architect was so-and-so"--with minimal interpretation and explanation (we generally don't even learn what details indicate that "this" building was influenced by "that" one). A great deal of familiarity with the material is required on the part of the reader, so the text entirely failed my mission of gaining a broad understanding of quattrocento architecture. If you are well-versed in the topic and are looking for a reference, this book may be helpful; if you're looking for elucidation, it almost surely won't be. The most Heydenreich seems to be able to say about the style of buildings or the reason they were compelling to their contemporaries is that they were "perfect" and "beautiful," terms I have heard altogether too frequently (and too frequently unexplained) from Renaissance art historians. I regret that I have no better book to recommend in Heydenreich's place.
On a somewhat different note, the binding of the paperback Pelican books is shoddy at best. By the time I had finished this book, which I did read cover to cover despite really disliking it (it's only 151 pages anyway), all of its pages were falling out!
Book Description
El Greco, Ribera, Velzquez, Murillothese are but a few of the great artists of Spain's golden age of painting. This authoritative and handsome book-an enlarged and revised version of the author's Golden Age of Painting in Spainsurveys the development of painting in Spain during this fascinating period, focusing on the interaction between art and the prevailing socioeconomic and political conditions.
Customer Reviews:
Painting in Spain, 1500-1700 by Jonathan Brown.......2000-02-29
I am delighted with this book. It is ideal for teaching university students. It not only provides fresh insights into the social milieu as well as the the paintings themselves, it also has an excellent updated bibliography of the literature on the subject. For the past two decades I have lamented the fact that the Kubler-Soria Pelican book on Art and Architecture in Spain had become first increasingly outdated and then out of print. This book fills that gap splendidly - although I do wish it had been possible to include sculpture in the book as well: the interactions between these two art forms is very important. One other minor criticism: the book emphasizes the importance of the regional schools of painting in the 16th century, yet nowhere in the book is there a map of Spain showing those regions! Next edition of the book, I hope one is included.
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This classic survey of Italian Baroque art and architecture focuses on the arts in every center between Venice and Sicily in the early, high, and late Baroque periods. The heart of the study, however, lies in the architecture and sculpture of the exhilarating years of Roman High Baroque, when Bernini, Borromini, and Cortona were all at work under a series of enlightened popes. Wittkower`s text is now accompanied by a critical introduction and substantial new bibliography. This edition-now published in three volumes-will also include color illustrations for the first time.
Customer Reviews:
A terrific introduction toItalian Art.......2000-03-20
This is one of the most intelligent book I've ever read about art. It's simple, complete, full of original point-of-views. In asingle word: you can't miss it if you like the Art History!
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This lavishly illustrated book is an authoritative study of Dutch painting from 1600 to 1800 and covers all the major artists of the period-Hals, Rembrandt, Vermeer and sets them firmly in the wider context of Dutch art. It will immediately establish itself as the new standard work on this great period of painting.
Customer Reviews:
Superb Survey of Dutch Painting.......2004-04-03
I could not disagree more with the reviewer below. This is a thorough treatment of Dutch painting that includes both the heavyweights and lesser known figures. It is rarely technical; instead we get Slive's visceral (but authoritative) reactions to individual artists and works. He gives us context, but never overdoes it till the life is drained from the art. As a result, he explains Dutch painting but doesn't lessen the wonder that draws us to the Dutch in the first place. His moving analysis of Frans Hals is a case in point.
Should you be uninterested in Slive's text, however, the reproductions he has selected alone justify buying the book. I have not seen a more complete collection from this period available in a single volume.
Broad, but uninspired.......1999-12-11
Slive's book is a basic introduction to the art of the Northern Netherlands during the Baroque era. It covers a wide range of artists and genres, but fails to consider the wide interpretative issues of the art. When Slive does attempt interpretation, he tends to fall back on old-fashioned methods that have since been disproved by modern scholarship. The prose is boring and bland, but the book does feature many photos (although more of them could be in color). Overall, an introductory text that covers a lot of ground but has little depth.
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"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart)
The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged.
Each volume features:
* Authoritative, reliable texts
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* An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare's life and the selection of texts
Customer Reviews:
it's settled........2007-08-25
oh yeah. what the world needs is my opinion on "hamlet," by william shakespeare. seems that the jury is still out on whether this is a good book or not. well, here it is: my seal of approval. great stuff mr shakespeare. i hope that i helped your writing career with this review. you go, guy.
You will be absorbed into the story.......2005-06-28
This really is "The Tragical History of Hamlet Prince of Denmark" and not only the Prince but his family. Not only his family but his friends. The tragedy started in the previous generation. Will it end with Hamlet?
Many people are interested in dissecting underlying themes and read more into the characters actions than was probably intended. Many of phrases from Hamlet now challenge Bible for those popular quotes that no one remembers where they came from. The real fun is in just reading the story and as you find that it is not as foreign as you may have thought; you see many characters like these around you today.
A synopsis, Old Hamlet conquered Old Fortinbras seizing Fortinbras' land. Now that Old Hamlet is dead, Young Fortinbras wants his land back and is willing to take it by force. Meanwhile back in Dänemark Prince Hamlet who is excessively grieving the loss of his father, the king, gets an interesting insight from his father's ghost. Looks like Old Hamlet was a victim of a "murder most foul"; it appears his mother and uncle were in cahoots on the murder. On top of that they even get married before the funeral meats are cold.
The story is about Hamlet's vacillating as to what to do about his father's murder. However he does surprise many with his persistence and insight.
You will find many great movie presentations and imitations of the story; this is an intriguing read but was really meant to be watched.
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