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A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
Charles Dickens
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ASIN: 0141439602
Release Date: 2003-05-27

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Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Richard Maxwell.

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Much to Offer.......2007-04-02

A Tale of Two cities is a vivid story of the French Revolution filled with imagery and motifs that are thick in the literature. So many stories collide in as the numerous characters are all connected some way, some how. There's a dramatic love triangle, a revenge story, a recovery from an eighteen year imprisonment and much more.

Charles Dickens writes as someone from his day would, filled with commas and metaphors. For children under thirteen this might be inappropriate, not because of content, but because they might not understand it enough to appreciate all it has to offer. It shows the immoral side of humanity, even though revenge isn't the only purpose. The aristocrats were mercilessly taken from there homes and to La Guillotine.

Motifs such as The Sea, Redemption, Secret Sins, Letters, and many others reinforce what is trying to be demonstrated. They are occurring events or ideas that keep the book interesting. So many of these characters come to their doom and it the affects the reader just as it would if you were actually watching it. Dramatic foreshadowing is also very affecting, but the actual events are even more thrilling.

Overall, I recommend this book to all willing to read, it's a wonderful book to enhance your literary vocabulary. It has tastes for men with its brutal wars and battles, but also has a sense of feminism as the love story will interests the women.

Different from his others.......2007-03-03

This may be one of the best Dickens novels. Shorter and less character-populated than any other of his books that I've read, it was also the most political. The theme centers around the French Revolution and the complete chaos in Paris at that time - Paris being one of the two cities referenced in the title, the other being London - and how the Revolution affects the lives of four primary characters: a young Englishwoman named Lucie Manette, her father Dr. Alexander Manette, Charles Darnay, a French aristocrat who rebels against his family heritage, and Sydney Carton, an English lawyer. The story begins with the reunion of Lucie and her father after the latter's long political incarceration, and the love that develops between Lucie and Charles Darnay, whom they meet on the journey home from France after Dr. Manette is released. As the Revolution ramps up, Charles also faces incarceration due to his family heritage, even though he had renounced it. Sydney Carton is an assistant to Charles' attorney. Sydney, an embittered man for reasons not really clear, also comes to love Lucie although he realizes that Charles is a better match for her and that her love lies with him. Ironically, the two men bear a strong physical resemblance to one another, a trivial fact that becomes very important later in the story.

Just as things seem to be going so well back in England in spite of the turmoil in France, the Revolution soon catches up with the family again, and this time they're ensnared even more firmly than before - in part thanks to a clever but malicious Frenchwoman and revolutionary, Madame DeFarge, who has a serious axe to grind with the family.

What stood out the most to me was the evocative portrayal of the social upheaval in Paris during this time. Scenes depicting the storming of the Bastille and the rage-fueled murders of jailed French anti-revolutionaries by peasant mobs were particularly powerful, and really brought that time and place alive for me. Having never looked at the French Revolution and the infamous Reign of Terror through the eyes of the common person on the street, it really illustrated well the fear and distrust everyone had for one another, even neighbors and family members.

The ending is one of those that you hope will turn out some other way, yet it also leaves you with a deep appreciation of love and self-sacrifice.

sacrifice for love.......2007-02-21

I loved this book because its about romance and how a man sacrificed his life to see the women he loves to be happy and to be with her daughter and husband freed because all he did with his life was scam people and he felt good in his heart with at least one good thing that he accomplished in his life so he gave up and switched with here husband and died for her.

"The" Novel of Novels.......2007-02-04

From the first lines of the novel about London and Paris to the last speech by Sydney Carton at the end the book held us in its grip. I have read Carlyle's History of the French Revolution, Dickens' main source, and find this much the superior. My wife and I read this in high school and now in our seventies appreciate it more than then, and we appreciated it then, too. Dickens' engaging style remains with the reader. A few years back we walked by the few remaining stones of the Bastille and they seemed redolent of the novel. Reading this book was more than entertainment, it was an experience.

Unforgettable.......2007-01-06

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

So begins one of the greatest books ever written (in my own humble opinion), about injustice, love, horror, fear, hate, and sacrifice. It's powerful and mindblowing, and made me stay up till midnight on a schoolnight just to finish it, when I had to wake up at five o'clock -- and I already knew the ending. It's that good.

The characters are real and incredible; Dr. Manette is a doting father and strong person (the scene in which he tries to begin shoemaking again directly after Darnay's second imprisonment is miserable to read about, and sad in its own way), Lucie Manette is a courageous and strong person too, though not the focal point of the book, Charles Darnay, while not super-developed, is also realistic. But the character that truly makes this book a masterpiece is Sydney Carton. Melancholy, a drunk, almost friendless, in love with a woman whom he wants to be rid of him, and enigmatic, he is a fascinating and tragic person. Reading the scenes of him strolling around the streets the night before Darnay's to-be execution, brooding and silent, I wondered why they had been put in, but thinking back on it I know. It was essential to his character and the plot, like Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, preparing quietly and almost sadly, but with a fierce inner joy as well.

The ending almost made me cry, it was that powerful. Now, despite the fact I know I might be disappointed, I'm desperate to rent the movie.

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known."

Middle English Lyrics (Norton Critical Edition)

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Worldes blisse, have good day!
A Myriad of Medieval Poetry

Middle English Lyrics (Norton Critical Edition)
Maxwell S. Luria , and Richard L. Hoffman
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Worldes blisse, have good day!.......2005-10-03

I first picked up this book nearly twenty years ago, and it has remained a favourite of mine. Middle English poetry is relatively hard to come by, particularly in the 'original' version. Of course, this is a slightly modified original (modern typeface, a few spelling conventions that warrant attention), but for the most part, this is the lyric poetry as it was originally written. There are a few photographs of original manuscripts, some with musical notation added to the words, for comparison.

This collection includes all of the poetry from the Harley manuscript (a piece from the Middle Ages which is the sole surviving copy of a good number of Middle English poems), all the verses from the Brown XIV manuscript by Friar Herebert, and most of the poems in 'Secular Lyrics' the Oxford edition by R.H. Robbins. There are nearly 250 poems in all.

These poems are arranged thematically, and show the diversity of interests in the Middle English culture. This was a culture that was very much in transition, shifting from its historic Anglo-Saxon roots to one that was more in touch in a peaceable way with the continent, become more urban in many respects, and becoming a blended culture in many ways. There are influences of court and church, French, Germanic tongues, Celtic influences, rural pastoral settings and new town experiences. 'In their copiousness and variety, too, these poems - songs of love and death, God and nature, the pleasures of the table and the fears of damnation, the ebullience of youth and the melancholy of old age - form one of the great bodies of lyric verse in world literature.'

Middle English encompasses a long time period and a variety of dialects; from the immediate post-Norman Conquest times when the language of Anglo-Saxons jostled with the language of the Normans, up to the generations succeeding Chaucer, when the Germanic and Latinate influences had blended together in a wonderful way.

The editors of this text, Maxwell Luria and Richard Hoffman, have departed from certain conventions, such as declining to contrive titles for lyrics; they also freely confess their difficulties with some of the poetry, like the Harley manuscript (they are far from the only ones to have this difficulty), and, because this text is intended primarily for students, have not spent a great deal of time trying to sort out all of these issues in this text.

This Norton edition also includes essays, divided into two sorts. There are four essays dealing with Critical and Historical Background (essays on style, content, performance, and cross-cultural connections), and several essays that focus upon six specific poems, including the very famous 'Sumer is icumen in'. Although these six poems are highlighted, many others are referenced and discusses within the broader framework of the essays.

This is a glorious collection of verse, lesser known but that which should be known. The essays are interesting and useful for helping understanding. There are bibliographies and an index of first lines useful for students doing research.

A Myriad of Medieval Poetry.......1999-07-08

I am not a scholar, but here's my 2¢: It's difficult to find collections of Medieval English poetry; the most one can usually hope to find is a bit of Chaucer mixed with Renaissance poetry.This collection provides a welcome relief with 245 poems separated into several categories: Religious, worldly, love, Christmas, bawdy, and more. My personal favorite is a 15th poem which deals with racism. There are several essays, and all poems are dated and sourced. Why only 4 stars? The poems have been slightly modernized, with regards to capitalization, punctuation, thorns and other archaic letters.

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Global Hollywood 2
Toby Miller , Nitin Govil , John McMurria , Richard Maxwell , and Ting Wang
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No Duty to Retreat: Violence and Values in American History and Society

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In 1865, Wild Bill Hickok killed Dave Tutt in a Missouri public square in the West's first notable "walkdown." One hundred and twenty-nine years later, Bernhard Goetz shot four threatening young men in a New York subway car. Apart from gunfire, what could the two events possibly have in common? Goetz, writes Richard Maxwell Brown, was acquitted of wrongdoing in the spirit of a uniquely American view of self-defense, a view forged in frontier gunfights like Hickok's. When faced with a deadly threat, we have the right to stand our ground and fight. We have no duty to retreat. No Duty to Retreat offers an engrossing account of how this idea of self-defense emerged, focusing in particular on the gunfights of the frontier and their impact on our legal traditions. The right to stand one's ground, Brown tells us, appeared relatively recently. Under English common law, the threatened party had a legal duty to retreat "to the wall" before fighting back. But from the nineteenth century on, such authorities as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes rejected this doctrine as unsuited to both the American mind and the age of firearms. Brown sketches the influence of frontier violence, demonstrating the tremendous impact of the famous gunmen and the prevalence of what he calls "grassroots gunfighters"--unsung men who resorted to their guns at a moment's notice. These duels, ambushes, and firefights, he writes, were more than personal vendettas: They were part of a "Western Civil War of Incorporation," pitting gunmen--usually Republicans and Unionists, who sided with the expanding banks, railroads, and businesses--against cowboys and independent farmers, who were often Democrats sympathizing with the Confederacy. Brown examines the gunfight near the O.K. Corral in this light, showing how it was a climax of tensions between Tombstone's Republican businessmen (represented by Wyatt Earp) and the county's cowboys (led by the Clantons and McLaurys). He also looks at such lesser-known battles as the Mussel Slough war, in which resisting farmers, imbued with the no-retreat ethic, fought for their independent lifestyle against encroaching rail barons. This Civil War of Incorporation fed the violence of the West and reinforced the legal doctrine of "no duty to retreat." The frontier days are long past, but Brown shows how the ethic of no retreat continues to shape everything from our entertainment to our foreign policy (including President Bush's "line drawn in the sand") to our politics to cases like that of Bernhard Goetz. Though challenged as never before by the values of peace and social activism, it remains a central theme in American thought and character.

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Unlock Your Horses Talent in 20 Minutes a Day: A 3-Step Training Program for Every Horse
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In this follow-up to the successful titles, Understanding Your Horse, and From Birth to Backing, Richard Maxwell develops a simple structured approach to dealing with horse problems which comprises three steps and can take as little as twenty minutes a day, encompassing handling and training from the ground, and in the saddle. This is further helped by eight case studies, which illustrate useful, practical exercises.

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A must for horse owners.......2006-03-20

I have read this book from cover to cover and started to implement the exercises, it was easier to follow that I thought and I have started to see good changes in my young horse.

Although it is similar to parelli it isn't as strict and I have found that my horses personlaity is still very much there, but it is working with me now and not against me.

Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology, 10th Edition (2 volume set)

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Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology, 2 volume set
Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology

Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology, 10th Edition (2 volume set)

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total satisfaction.......2007-04-12

I live in Brazil and always thougth it would be dificult to have an easy buying by internet. I started looking for this book in the internet because it was not avaiable at the bookstores here in my town. I found it quicker and cheaper, and for my surprese it came in 15 days. Total satisfaction!

specialized textbook .......2006-08-20

extensive discussion for some of the rare disorders of the Hematology , this book has been reviewed in JAMA.

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A good haematology reference.......2002-06-15

This book is written primarily for the laboratory, and the haematologist. In that area it is excellent, for clinical treatment, williams or other books are better. But for the laboratoru I would reccomend this book, as I have this and several of the previous editions.

Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology, 2 volume set.......2000-08-14

Although this is an excellent textbook for medical students and hematology fellows who need to learn more about certain topics and diseases, it offers limited assistance to the clinician who has to work backwards from lab results and symptoms in search of diseases. It covers the molecular biology of hematology in great detail and also discusses some of the treatment options. It is a great book if you are doing a paper on a hematologic topic. There are also chapters on the new techniques used in labs and the differences in these techniques. On the other hand, if you are looking at abnormal results on a CBC, this book may not offer much help.

Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology.......2000-05-05

A comprehensive text of practical clinical hematology. Clearly and concisely written for use as a reference or 'at the bench.' One of the most useful materials in the Hematology laboratory.

The Mysteries of Paris and London (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)

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A Story Like No Other
"For you, or any dear to you, I would do anything."
Classic Story of Love and Redemption!
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A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
Charles Dickens , and Richard Maxwell
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One of Dickens's most haunting novels, A Tale of Two Cities has, since its first serial publication in 1859, continued to exert a grip on the popular imagination. The two cities of the title--a lethal, vengeful Paris during the French Revolution and a leafy, tranquil London--are only one of the novel's stark dichotomies, which are continued as Syndey Carton and Charles Darnay are drawn toward their separate destinies--their lives touched by the same woman.

In his absorbing Introduction, Richard Maxwell discusses the novel's intricate design, in which Dickens magnificently interweaves epic drama with personal tragedy. Comparing it to Thomas Carlyle's French Revolution and Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, Maxwell argues that A Tale of Two Cities "stands as Dickens's most memorable effort to see a world in a very small space; a work short by its nature . . . yet curiously at its ease among giants."

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Dicken's classic novel of The French Revolution. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…"

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A Good Review.......2007-05-17

I think this book was great! In the beginning of this book some of the words are French or English, which makes them a little hard to read, but once you get past that it turns into an amazing book. This book is about a daughter who saves her father from insanity and brings him home to England. Years after that day the daughter is married and her husband is asked to come to France (the French Revolution is taking place), but once he gets there he is put on death trial because of his fathers' crimes. In the end of the book the husband is saved and they all go back to England.

A Story Like No Other.......2007-04-02

"For you, or any dear to you, I would do anything.".......2007-03-24

This classic novel, set in London and Paris during the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, is a suspenseful and fast-paced story of one man's redemption and the ultimate sacrifice he makes for the woman he loves. No wonder it a perennial favorite! It has everything: romance, horror, adventure, and since the author is Charles Dickens, even a little bit of humor is thrown in from time to time to lighten the atmosphere. The ending of this book is especially thrilling and will have you sitting on the edge of your seat until you turn over the last page!

Charles Darnay is a French aristocrat living and working as a tutor in London at the time of the French Revolution. In the early pages of the novel, he is tried for the crime of treason but acquitted, mainly through the efforts of a drunken and disreputable attorney named Sydney Carton. Both Darnay and Carton are in love with a beautiful young woman named Lucie Manette, and while she has warm feelings of friendship for Carton, it is Darnay who has truly won her heart. Shortly after their marriage, Darnay receives an urgent message from a trusted family servant who is imprisoned in the Bastille and fears for his life. Darnay makes the decision to return to the turbulent streets of Paris to help this man, realizing that he may also be imprisoned upon his arrival and possibly lose his life in the process. Help will eventually come from a completely unexpected source and the ending of this story is both tragic and very uplifting.

I am leaving out quite a lot here as I don't want to give away too much of the story, but take my word for it, this is a terrific book and a story no one should miss. And even though there are some difficult passages here and there throughout the novel, it does not contain pages and pages of long and wordy descriptions as are found in some of Dickens' other works, such as Bleak House or Our Mutual Friend. Dickens writes in a more straightforward style here but that is not to say that the book lacks his characteristic flair for creating atmosphere! From the very first pages with the horses and carriage struggling up a steep hill in the dark and mud and fog to the scenes of Madame Defarge running through the city streets to the final pages set at the foot of the guillotine, you will feel as though you are right there with Dickens' characters, experiencing every bit of the action right alongside them!

This is such a wonderful and exciting story! I absolutely loved it! And even though I already knew the ending I was still overwhelmed by the eloquent writing found on the final pages and have since read them several times over again. This may be one of Dickens' shorter novels but it is also one of his very best! Highly recommended!

Classic Story of Love and Redemption!.......2007-02-19

This is easily my second favorite classic novel. Saturated with adventure, love, passion, and redemption, Dickens expertly and eloquently details the lives of many characters all woven together by the golden threads of love during the tumultuous and dangerous French Revolution. A must read!

An amazing tale.......2007-01-07

To begin, this is the first Dickens novel I have ever read. As a student of history and political science, most of my reading projects involve works of nonfiction. I must admit that I am not well versed in classic literature--a fact that I am ashamed of whenever I watch jeopardy or converse with literature fans. This past year I made a concerted effort to acquaint myself with some of the classic masterpieces. As a social studies major, "A Tale of Two Cities" was an excellent choice to begin my foray into classic literature.
Charles Dickens is a master storyteller. How someone can contrive such an intricate and compelling tale is beyond my comprehension. Dickens's imaginative skills should be respected and envied by all writers. "A Tale of Two Cities" takes place during the French Revolution. It is a story about love, revenge, and sacrifice. Dickens portrays the madness and brutality of the French Revolution in vivid and skillful fashion.

This is a must read for anyone interested in literature and/or history. I can see how Dickens is not for everyone, however. The reader must have a good vocabulary to fully understand his writing. Knowledge of 18th century European history is an added advantage and will help the reader to better comprehend the situation and setting. If those prerequisites are met, the reader is sure to be moved by this masterpiece.

Federal Taxation of Real Estate Exchanges: Ideas and Strategies--What Works. What Doesn'T. and Why

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Federal Taxation of Real Estate Exchanges: Ideas and Strategies--What Works. What Doesn'T. and Why
Richard A. Robinson , and James D. Maxwell
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Federal Taxation of Real Estate Exchanges is a crash course in the art of the deferred real estate exchange. Learn easy steps to sell old real estate and buy new without paying federal income taxes by using IRS safe-harbor exchange rules. It's the definitive guide to taxation of real estate exchanges for real estate investors and serious professionals who are seeking a growing sophistication and appreciation of how powerful the deferred exchange is in the fast changing world of real estate investments.</p>

Federal Taxation of Real Estate Exchanges was first born as a three-day continuing education seminar which author Rich Robinson wrote and taught to thousands of real estate agents, CPAs and investors from coast-to-coast. During this time Rich teamed up with real estate broker and Qualified Intermediary, Jim Maxwell. By combining Rich's years of experience as a CPA, writing and teaching federal taxation of real estate transactions and Jim's practical "street smart" knowledge and background in real estate exchanging, they created a new educational program presented at the National Association of Realtors® Annual Convention. This course is based on that highly successful program.</p>

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