The Princess & the Pauper


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Happily ever after is the only way to describe this crowd-pleasing story of a scholarship student who changes places with a princess for a day.




Walt Disney Pictures Presents The Prince and the Pauper


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A prince and a peasant temporarily switch lives, only to find themselves in a race against the clock to return the rightful heir to the throne and save the Kingdom from an evil plot.




Les Miserables


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The first new Penguin Classics translation in forty years of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece, the subject of The Novel of the Century by David Bellos—published in a stunning Deluxe edition. Winner of the French-American Foundation & Florence Gould Foundation’s 29th Annual Translation Prize in Fiction. The subject of the world’s longest-running musical and the award-winning film, Les Misérables is a genuine literary treasure. Victor Hugo’s tale of injustice, heroism, and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him, and has been a perennial favorite since it first appeared over 150 years ago. This exciting new translation with Jillian Tamaki’s brilliant cover art will be a gift both to readers who have already fallen for its timeless story and to new readers discovering it for the first time. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.




Pauper's Child


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The Sanford family are dogged by misfortune. Callista Sanford's father was well educated but ended up working in a steel foundry, before mysteriously taking his own life. Callista is left struggling to support herself and her ailing mother. Regular employment eludes her, and her pride will not let her accept charity. Instead she is reluctantly betrothed to the boorish rent collector, Oswin Slade, who seeks to advance himself by defrauding and then blackmailing his employer, the sinister Mrs Derry. But she is more than a match for him, as he finds out to his cost. Everything starts to change for Callista when she meets kindly Daniel and Abigail Roberts, who have known tragedy too. They offer her employment and a home and, under their tuition, she discovers an artistic flair she didn't know she had. But a happy ending is not certain because an unseen enemy lurks in the shadows, determined to see the demise of the pauper's child.




The Woollen Dress


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"The Woollen Dress" by Henry Bordeaux is a poignant and evocative novel that delves into the intricacies of human relationships and the impact of social constraints on individual lives. Set against a richly described backdrop, Bordeaux weaves a narrative that explores themes of love, sacrifice, and social expectation through the lens of its compelling characters. The story follows the life of a woman whose modest woollen dress becomes a symbol of her inner strength and resilience. Through the fabric of her everyday existence, Bordeaux examines the tensions between personal desires and societal pressures. The dress, simple yet significant, reflects the protagonist's journey through challenges and her quest for self-fulfillment in a world that often imposes limits on women. Bordeaux’s writing is noted for its lyrical quality and keen psychological insight, creating a deep connection between readers and the characters. The novel's exploration of emotional depth and societal norms provides a thought-provoking commentary on the human condition and the search for identity. "The Woollen Dress" is celebrated for its emotional resonance and its delicate portrayal of the struggles faced by individuals navigating complex social landscapes. It is a moving addition to the canon of literature that examines the intersection of personal choice and societal expectation, making it a must-read for those interested in classic literary themes and character-driven storytelling.




Picturing a Nation


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Art historian David Lubin examines the work of six nineteenth-century American artists to show how their paintings both embraced and resisted dominant social values. Lubin argues that artists such as George Bingham and Lily Martin Spencer were aware of the underlying social conflicts of their time and that their work reflected the nation's ambivalence toward domesticity, its conflicting ideas about child rearing, its racial disharmony, and many other issues central to the formation of modern America.--From publisher description.




Dime Dialogues


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Death as Entertainment


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This book explores the moral and representational issues associated with engaging young people with popular media depictions of death and dying. Emotionally charged depictions of death play an important role in contemporary media directed toward teen and young adult audiences. Across creative works as diverse as interactive digital games, graphic novels, short form serial narratives, television and films, young people gain opportunities to engage with representations of death. In some cases, representations of death, dying, and the decision to end one’s own life have been subject to public outcry and criticism related to its perceived potential impact on impressionable audiences. Death in/as entertainment can also be fleeting, commonplace and used for humour making it trivial. The chapters in this volume particularly consider the types of engagement made possible through different contemporary creative mediums and the ways in which they might distinctively capture or arouse thoughts and feelings on the end and loss of a human life. Death as Entertainment will appeal to researchers and students interested in new media and its cultural and psychological impact. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Mortality.




Our Boys and Girls


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The Leisure Hour


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