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Rich’s Farewell to Military Profession, 1581

By: Barnaby Rich

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Rich’s Farewell to Military Profession, 1581

By: Barnaby Rich

In a long and extraordinary career as captain, courier, privateer, real-estate agent, author, and informer, Barnaby Rich's principal achievement was the present volume—a collection of Elizabethan short stories despite its military title. Unquestionably best sellers in Rich's own time, these tales continue to delight scholars, critics, and even casual readers today. One twentieth-century critic pronounces the Farewell "a landmark in Elizabethan short-story writing" and cites Rich's "romantic charm, gaiety and lightness of touch, good vivid dialogue, directness and ease." According to Henry Seidel Canby, Rich's "humor is of the gayest. . . . There is a suggestion of Chaucer about him, and not a little of the poet's merry humor." Yet the "stories themselves are diverse." Certainly their charm and humor fetched Rich's contemporaries, who read out of existence all but one copy of the first edition and all but five of the subsequent three editions. Eight dramatists—including Shakespeare, Middleton, Shirley, and Marmion—immortalized several of the stories, however, by turning them into plays. The present edition affords an opportunity to read Rich's tales in the form in which Elizabethans knew them. The text reproduced is that of the unique copy of the first edition, which appeared in 1581. The editor's scholarly, illuminating introduction and commentary display much of the liveliness, charm, and humor for which his subject was praised and in addition tell a great deal about the life and literature of that most fascinating of periods, the Age of Elizabeth I. Scholars will be especially interested in Cranfill's revelations of how an Elizabethan story maker operated, in the complex, checkered bibliographical history of the Farewell, and above all in the considerable use Shakespeare seems to have made of Rich's tales.

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University of Texas Press

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0292772335

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Rich’s Farewell to Military Profession, 1581

By: Barnaby Rich

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Wonder Show

By: Hannah Barnaby

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Wonder Show

By: Hannah Barnaby

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step inside Mosco’s Traveling Wonder Show, a menagerie of human curiosities and misfits guaranteed to astound and amaze! But perhaps the strangest act of Mosco’s display is Portia Remini, a normal among the freaks, on the run from McGreavy’s Home for Wayward Girls, where Mister watches and waits. He said he would always find Portia, that she could never leave. Free at last, Portia begins a new life on the bally, seeking answers about her father’s disappearance. Will she find him before Mister finds her? It’s a story for the ages, and like everyone who enters the Wonder Show, Portia will never be the same.

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HarperCollins

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0547599811

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9780547599816

Romeo and Juliet

The Book, CD-ROM and Website that Work Together

By: William Shakespeare,Barnaby Harward

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Romeo and Juliet

The Book, CD-ROM and Website that Work Together

By: William Shakespeare,Barnaby Harward

Combines the original texts of Shakespeare's most famous plays with imaginative, interactive multimedia to enhance enjoyment and understanding. Book includes original text, modern retelling, explanation of historical and cultural background, interactive multimedia with activities and games. Windows and Mac. Ages 12+.

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154

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184301002X

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9781843010029

Time is All We Have

Four Weeks at the Betty Ford Center

By: Barnaby Conrad

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Four Weeks at the Betty Ford Center

By: Barnaby Conrad

A riveting personal account of one man's lifelong battle with alcoholism and a look inside the most famous drug and alcohol treatment center in the world.

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Arbor House Publishing

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0877958351

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9780877958352

Fodor's Exploring Britain

By: Fodor's,Tim Locke,Barnaby Rogerson,Richard Cavendish,Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff

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Fodor's Exploring Britain

By: Fodor's,Tim Locke,Barnaby Rogerson,Richard Cavendish,Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff

A region-by-region guide to Britain, with essays that discuss aspects of life in the country, past and present; an alphabetical listing of places to visit, including suggested itineraries, walks, and excursions; a travel fact directory, hotel and restaurant recommendations, and maps and illustrations.

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1400015324

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