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Preface This edition of As You Like It is designed to make available a readable text of one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. In the centuries since Shakespeare many changes have occurred in the meanings of words, and some clarification of Shakespeare's vocabulary may bo helpful. To provide...

To the Reader This book is designed to alert you to faulty speech and writing habits you may have acquired and to confirm and strengthen you in good ones. To these ends, Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions singles out, defines, explains, and illustrates some 1,500 of the most common...

1943 CHAPTER 1 I was born in 1904, so that when I was pregnant in 1943 I was near enough to be past the rightful age to bear children. This would be my sixth, and on that morning in February, the first morning I'd known I was with child, I'd simply turned to Leston in bed next to me, the room...

1 A FEW MONTHS after my mother died, my father brought Ottilia home for the first time. She was twenty-four years old. My father was forty-one. Ottilia was not my father's only surprise: he also brought Matthew, my half-brother. Matthew, like me, was seven. I felt relieved by Ottilie and...

Preface This edition of Richard III is designed to make available a readable text of one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. In the centuries since Shakespeare many changes have occurred in the meanings of 3 words, and some clarification of Shakespeare's | vocabulary may be helpful. To...

Preface This edition of The Merchant of Venice is designed to make available a readable text of one of Shakespeare's greatest plays. In the centuries since Shakespeare many changes have occurred in the meanings of words, and some clarification of Shakespeare's vocabulary may be helpful. To...