Rinehart Holt
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Series
Broadview literary texts volume 0
Language
English
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"The canonical American masterpiece of sin, guilt, and revenge, in an authoritative new edition from Penguin Classics with a foreword by Tom Perrotta. At once retrospective and radically new, [this book] portrays seventeenth-century Puritan New England, a time period irreversibly encoded in the American identity. Hawthorne built one of the most incisive and devastating human dramas ever written out of a community and its outcasts: Hester Prynne...
Author
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Pub. Date
[1975]
Language
English
Description
Elucidates the distinctive qualities and circumstances of popular, important, and interesting central characters of children's books and stories, and their creators' techniques, from King Alfred and Alice to Winnie-the-Pooh and the Wombles.
Author
Series
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart & Winston
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
This textbook is designed to help [the reader] master the skills required for the effective use of standard English. Beginning with the basics in grammar, usage, and mechanics ... each chapter provides [the reader] with instruction and practice in specific skills. The numerous exercises throughout the book enable[s the reader] to check [his] understanding of important concepts, rules, and guidelines. In addition, various writing exercises and activities...