Used book in Good Condition. Since the publication of the first two editions of his practical manual, thousands of students across the nation have used his techniques in the process of writing their personal statements for college and graduate school. A student doesn?t have to be a star scholar or a superhero to write a great application essay.
Their essays revealed their values, insights and spirit, ? says Mason. About the authormichael james Mason has helped thousands of students at his College Essay Workshops and in previous editions of this book. Seniors in high school start feeling stressed at the mere thought of writing the college application essay.
He lives in Marina Del Ray, California. They well know the role this crucial document plays in getting into their university of choice. They just have to show on paper that they know some things about themselves and that life has meaning and perspective. In how to write a winning college application Essay, Mason teaches students how to put their best image on paper while letting the essay speak from their heart about what life means to them.
What they may not know is that there is a right way and a wrong way to writing the essay.
Writing with Style: Conversations on the Art of Writing 3rd Edition
Writing with style is storehouse of practical writing tips—written in a lively, conversational style.
The Natural
Farrar Straus Giroux. In it malamud, took on very different material―the story of a superbly gifted "natural" at play in the fields of the old daylight baseball era―and invested it with the hardscrabble poetry, usually appreciated for his unerring portrayals of postwar Jewish life, at once grand and altogether believable, that runs through all his best work.
Four decades later, alfred kazin's comment still holds true: "Malamud has done something which―now that he has done it!―looks as if we have been waiting for it all our lives.
Candide Third Edition Norton Critical Editions
Says one character, a princess turned one-buttocked hag by unkind Fate: "I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. Penned by that renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s.
. Candide's tutor, Dr. Candide is such a book. Magoo armed with deadly force, as he travels the world struggling to be reunited with his love, Lady Cunegonde, the novel smashes such ill-conceived optimism to splinters. Pangloss, is steadfast in his philosophical good cheer, in the face of more and more fantastic misfortune; Candide's other companions always supply good sense in the nick of time.
Still, voltaire pays tribute to human resilience, as he demolishes optimism, and in doing so gives the book a pleasant indomitability common to farce. Telling the tale of the good-natured but star-crossed Candide think Mr. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most melancholy propensities; for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"--Michael Gerber Farrar Straus Giroux.
The Theban Plays: King Oedipus; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone Penguin Classics
With more than 1, 700 titles, penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. F. Oedipus at colonus provides a fitting conclusion to the life of the aged and blinded king, while Antigone depicts the fall of the next generation, through the conflict between a young woman ruled by her conscience and a king too confident in his own authority.
E. Farrar Straus Giroux. O light! may i never look on you again, sinful in my begetting, revealed as i am, Sinful in marriage, sinful in shedding of blood!’ The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles 496–406 BC to create a powerful trilogy of mankind’s struggle against fate.
King oedipus tells of a man who brings pestilence to Thebes for crimes he does not realise he has committed, and then inflicts a brutal punishment upon himself. 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.
With profound insights into the human condition, it is a devastating portrayal of a ruler brought down by his own oath.
Fences
From legendary playwright august wilson comes the powerful, stunning dramatic bestseller that won him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize. Troy maxson is a strong man, a hard man. Farrar Straus Giroux. Troy maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul.
This is a modern classic, a book that deals with the impossibly difficult themes of race in America, set during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s. Now an academy award-winning film directed by and starring Denzel Washington, along with Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Viola Davis. Great product!
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The Importance of Being Earnest
The importance of being earnest shows a full measure of Oscar Wilde's legendary wit, and embodies more than any of his other plays, his decency and warmth.
Hamlet Folger Library Shakespeare
. Hamlet: an updated edition from the folger Shakespeare LibraryHamlet is Shakespeare's most popular, and most puzzling, play. Much of its fascination, however, lies in its uncertainties. Great product! Simon Schuster.
No Country for Old Men
As moss tries to evade his pursuers–in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives–McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. Great product!
Vintage Books USA. Simon Schuster. Farrar Straus Giroux. No country for Old Men is a triumph. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men.
Things Fall Apart Everyman's Library
The first of these stories traces okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives, and in its classical purity of line and economical beauty it provides us with a powerful fable about the immemorial conflict between the individual and society. Farrar Straus Giroux. Things fall apart tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Nigeria.
. Vintage Books USA. These twin dramas are perfectly harmonized, and they are modulated by an awareness capable of encompassing at once the life of nature, human history, and the mysterious compulsions of the soul. Simon Schuster.
Frankenstein
Farrar Straus Giroux. Great product! Approved by the Holden-Crowther Literary Organisation. Few creatures of horror have seized readers' imaginations and held them for so long as the anguished monster of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. When continued rains kept them confined indoors, all agreed to Byron's proposal.
The illustrious poets failed to complete their ghost stories, but Mary Shelley rose supremely to the challenge. The friends were summering on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland in 1816, Shelley still unknown as a poet and Byron writing the third canto of Childe Harold. Considering the novel's enduring success, it is remarkable that it began merely as a whim of Lord Byron's.
We will each write a story, " byron announced to his next-door neighbors, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley. Vintage Books USA.