Author: Paula Marantz Cohen
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1429903007
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Paula Marantz Cohen's triumphant first novel, Jane Austen in Boca, was an inspired blend of classic English literature and modern American manners. Her new novel heads north to the seemingly quiet suburban town of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, for a comedy that even Shakespeare couldn't have imagined. Carla Goodman is worried. Her husband, a gastroenterologist in private practice, is coming home frazzled because medicine isn't what it used to be. Her son's teachers want to put him on Ritalin to stop him from wreaking havoc on the fifth grade. And her cranky twelve-year-old daughter has a bas mitzvah coming up. But it's Carla's sweet, widowed mother, Jessie Kaplan, who really has her baffled. Jessie has suddenly "remembered" that she was Shakespeare's girlfriend---the Dark Lady of the sonnets---in a previous life. Can even the famed Dr. Leonard Samuels, psychiatrist and author of the self-help book How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love My Mother-in-Law, help with problems like these? Witty, engaging, and wickedly observant, Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan is an unpredictable tale of love, loss, and family rites of passage.
Author: Edna Nahshon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110816160X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 457
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Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice occupies a unique place in world culture. As the fictional, albeit iconic, character of Shylock has been interpreted as exotic outsider, social pariah, melodramatic villain and tragic victim, the play, which has been performed and read in dozens of languages, has served as a lens for examining ideas and images of the Jew at various historical moments. In the last two hundred years, many of the play's stage interpreters, spectators, readers and adapters have themselves been Jews, whose responses are often embedded in literary, theatrical and musical works. This volume examines the ever-expanding body of Jewish responses to Shakespeare's most Jewishly relevant play.
Author: Paula Marantz Cohen
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312366575
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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The bestselling author of "Jane Austen in Boca" combines the wit and romance of Austen's "Persuasion" with a brilliantly astute look at the frenzy of college admissions in this irresistible comedy of manners.
Author: Paula Marantz Cohen
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402254733
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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"A marvelously rich and intelligent read, atmospheric, witty, irreverent, and not least a sharply perceptive portrait of those three extraordinary Jameses." —John Banville, author of The Infinities Under Certain Circumstances, No One Is More Suited to Solving a Crime than a Woman Confined to Her Bed An invalid for most her life, Alice James is quite used to people underestimating her. And she generally doesn't mind. But this time she is not about to let things alone. Yes, her brother Henry may be a famous author, and her other brother William a rising star in the new field of psychology. But when they all find themselves quite unusually involved in the chase for a most vile new murderer—one who goes by the chilling name of Jack the Ripper—Alice is certain of two things: No one could be more suited to gather evidence about the nature of the killer than her brothers. But if anyone is going to correctly examine the evidence and solve the case, it will have to be up to her. Praise for Paula Marantz Cohen "Cohen's wit is sharp, smart, and satirical, and her characterizations are vividly on target." —San Francisco Chronicle
Author: Brian J. Foley
Publisher: Gegensatz Press
ISBN: 1933237481
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 135
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Satirizes the get-rich-quick mindset that gets us into economic crises and makes light of the shame that many of us feel about money.
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Languages : en
Pages : 116
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The magazine that helps career moms balance their personal and professional lives.
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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TheSourcebooks Shakespearebrings Shakespeare's plays to life in a revolutionary new book and CD format. For the first time,text, audio and illustrationcome together to create a remarkable new way of experiencing this play.
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Languages : en
Pages : 116
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The magazine that helps career moms balance their personal and professional lives.
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1426
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Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.
Author: Library of Congress. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Publisher:
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Category : Blind
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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