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The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used.
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Set in a topsy-turvy world like a holiday revel, this comedy devises a romantic plot around separated twins, misplaced passions, and mistaken identity. Juxtaposed to it is the satirical story of a self-deluded steward who dreams of becoming "Count Malvolio" only to receive his comeuppance at the hands of the merrymakers he wishes to suppress. The two plots combine to create a farce touched with melancholy, mixed throughout with seductively beautiful...
4) Passengers
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Survivors of a plane crash begin disappearing and their grief counselor suspects reality may not be what it seems.
5) Enemy Mine
Pub. Date
1985
Description
Two space enemies who crash on a desolate planet and gradually realize that in order to survive they must overcome their hatred of each other.
6) The tempest
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
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Presents the annotated text of the darkly humorous play about Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, who is exiled to a magical island with his daughter, Miranda; and includes an introduction, an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare, and a note on the text used.
10) The Aviator
Pub. Date
2002, 1985
Description
Edgar Anscombe, an airmail pilot and former World War I fighter pilot, reluctantly takes Tillie Hansen as a passenger in his biplane on a cross-country journey. When the plane crashes and the two must rely on each other to survive, they begin to fall in love.
11) Twelfth night
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Shipwrecked on an unfriendly Illyrian shore, Viola, believing her twin brother is dead, disguises herself in male attire and joins the retinue of the lovesick Duke Orsino.
15) Cast away
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Chuck, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph. D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia ditches at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and he washes up on a tiny island with nothing but some flotsam and jetsam from the aircraft's cargo. Can he survive in this tropical wasteland? Will he ever return to woman he loves?
16) Pitch black
Series
Riddick volume 1
Description
When a group of marooned passengers must face a pack of terrifying creatures whose only weakness is the light, they turn to a vicious convict with an appetite for destruction and eerie eyes that can guide them through the darkness.
18) Pitch Black
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Description
A group of stranded space travelers fight for survival on a seemingly empty, dry, and barren planet.
Pub. Date
2000, c1997
Description
Two teenagers are put to the test when the plane taking them to a wilderness boot camp for juvenile offenders crashes into the vast Sierra wilderness. Their pilot, injured and unable to make the dangerous journey, teaches them the ways of his ancient people and to have faith in the spirit of the white wolf as well as themselves. Pamela and Jack are forced to face the dangerous trek alone with only the clothes on their back and the spirit of the white...
20) Lost: Season 6
Series
Pub. Date
2010
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Description
In the aftermath of a monumental explosion, reality shifts for everyone associated with the mystical island.
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