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As You Like It (1599) is a comedy by William Shakespeare. As You Like It was probably inspired by Thomas Lodge's Rosalynd, Euphues Golden Legacie (1587), a story based on "The Tale of Gamelyn," a Middle English romance. For its deconstruction of traditional gender roles and depiction of homoeroticism, As You Like It remains an important and frequently performed play in Shakespeare's oeuvre. "All the world's a stage, / And all the men and women merely...

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.

Gwen Davies, a sixteen-year old orphan, has lived all her life on her grandfather's farm in Wales. Her love for him and the magnificent horses they raise is her entire life. She is devastated by her grandfather's death -- to lose him and learn that she may be forced to sell the farm.

Follows the continuing events and developments in the family life of Mike Baxter, his wife Vanessa and their three daughters, Eve, Kristin and Mandy.

"Traditional manly man Mike Baxter ... continues to be surrounded by forces seeking to complicate and feminize his world"--Container.

He was where he shouldn't have been and saw what he shouldn't have seen. Now, who will believe the word of a career thief and ex-con? Who will trust Luther Whitney when he says he saw a woman killed and that the man responsible for her death is the President of the United States?

"Tim Allen returns ... as Mike Baxter in Last Man Standing, a show about everything that families in America are dealing with today - all filtered through the blunt 'man's man' comedy of an iconic American character ..."--Cover.

A humble businessman with a buried past seeks justice when his daughter is killed in an act of terrorism. A cat and mouse conflict ensues with a government official, whose past may hold clues to the killers' identities.

In a retelling of "The prodigal son," a talented soloist leaves her family and church behind to join a traveling gospel show, but when she realizes her true destiny lies back home, she hesitates to return, fearful of her preacher father's rejection.