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Around the World in 80 Days
Fogg is a rich English gentleman living in solitude. Despite his wealth, Fogg lives a modest life with habits carried out with mathematical precision. Very little can be said about his social life other than that he is a member of the Reform Club. Having dismissed his former valet, James Foster, for bringing him shaving water at 84 °F (29 °C) instead of 86 °F (30 °C), Fogg hires a Frenchman by the name of Jean Passepartout as a replacement. At the Reform Club, Fogg gets involved in an argument over an article in The Daily Telegraph stating that with the opening of a new railway section in India, it is now possible to travel around the world in 80 days. He accepts a wager for £20,000 (equal to about £1.6 million today) from his fellow club members, which he will receive if he makes it around the world in 80 days. Accompanied by Passepartout, he leaves London by train at 8:45 P.M. on Wednesday, October 2, 1872, and is due back at the Reform Club at the same time 80 days later, Saturday, December 21, 1872.
$4.00$10.00Around the World in 80 Days
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Set (Book, Student Guide, and Teacher Guide)
Set includes the Penguin Classics Edition of the book, the Memoria Press Student Guide, and the Memoria Press Teacher Guide. These are the current Second Edition.
Memoria Press Description: A New Year’s feast at King Arthur’s court is interrupted by the appearance of a gigantic Green Knight, resplendent on horseback. He challenges any of Arthur’s men to behead him, provided that if he survives he can return the blow a year later. Sir Gawain accepts the wager and decapitates the knight—but the mysterious warrior cheats death and vanishes, bearing his head with him. The following winter Gawain sets out to find the knight in the wild Northern lands and to keep his side of the bargain. One of the great masterpieces of Middle English poetry, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight magically combines elements of fairy tales and heroic sagas with the pageantry, chivalry and courtly love of medieval romance.
Brian Stone’s evocative translation is accompanied by an introduction that examines the romance genre, and the poem’s epic and pagan sources. This edition also includes suggestions for further reading, notes and essays discussing the central characters and themes, theories about authorship and Arthurian legend.
Book: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a great medieval epic and romance.
Student Guide: The Student Guide contains Vocabulary Questions, Reading Comprehension Questions, and more.
Teacher Guide: The Teacher Guide contains answers to the Student Guide as well as quizzes and quiz answer keys. The Teacher Guide enables educators to guide students through the grammar, logic, and rhetoric stages towards the central proposition that gives the story ultimate meaning and expression.$18.00$39.00 -
The Hound of the Baskervilles Set (Novel, Student Guide, and Teacher Guide)
Set includes the Penguin Classics Edition of the novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, the Memoria Press Student Guide, and the Memoria Press Teacher Guide. These are the current First Edition.
Memoria Press Description: “Could the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville have been caused by the gigantic ghostly hound that is said to have haunted his family for generations? Arch-rationalist Sherlock Holmes characteristically dismisses the theory as nonsense. And, immersed in another case, he sends Dr Watson to Devon to protect the Baskerville heir and observe the suspects at close hand. With its atmospheric setting on the ancient, wild moorland and its savage apparition, The Hound of the Baskervilles is one of the greatest crime novels ever written. Rationalism is pitted against the supernatural and good against evil as Sherlock Holmes sets out to defeat a foe almost his equal.”
Novel: This edition of the text contains a full chronology of Arthur Conan Doyle’s life and works, an introduction by renowned horror scholar Professor Christopher Frayling discussing the background to the novel and the legends and events that inspired the story, with further reading and explanatory notes.
Student Book: Students are guided to read and think through the pre-grammar, grammar, logic, and rhetoric stages toward the essence of the story, the central proposition that gives the story its greatest meaning and expression. The guides feature helpful reading notes for background information and difficult words, extensive vocabulary training, comprehension questions, Socratic discussion questions, interaction with salient quotes, and literary and rhetorical devices presented in bold-face to prepare students for sophisticated literary analysis and future study—and these for the nuanced reflection of the complex simplicity of life.heir own notes and glean information from lectures, class discussions, and the text.
Teacher Guide: The Hound of the Baskervilles Teacher Guide is equipped with all answers to The Hound of the Baskervilles Student Guide as well as all tests and test answer keys. The Teacher Guide enables educators to guide students through the grammar, logic, and rhetoric stages towards the central proposition that gives the story ultimate meaning and expression.$17.00$38.00 -
The Aeneid (Book and Teacher Guide)
Set includes the Penguin Classics edition of Virgil’s “The Aeneid” and the Memoria Press Teacher Guide. “The Aeneid” book cover is worn around the edges and the text contains some highlighting. The Teacher Guide is like new and is the current First Edition.
Memoria Press Description: There are three works that are at the source of Western culture: the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid. After you have completed your study of Homer’s two works, Virgil’s epic story of the founding of Rome, the Aeneid, is your next logical Great Book to study.
The Teacher Guide (included) provides answers to the Comprehension and Discussion Questions, Chapter Summaries, Drill Exercises, and Quizzes and Tests. This set does NOT include the Student Guide.$10.00$35.90The Aeneid (Book and Teacher Guide)
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Around The World in a Hundred Years
A great resource learning about navigators and explorers!
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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Learning French
Your comprehensive guide to speaking, reading, and writing in French
French is a beautiful language but can be quite difficult to learn. Whether you need to learn the language for a French class, or for business or leisure travel, French for Dummies All-In-One makes it easier.
**CD is included.$6.50$19.99The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Learning French
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Poetry: A Pocket Anthology
Key Benefit: This brief, inexpensive, and portable anthology of poetry features more than 250 poems and presents a diverse body of work ranging from William Shakespeare and John Milton to Rita Dove and Adrienne Rich. Key Topics: Selection of poems along with guidance on how to write about poetry. Index of critical terms included.
$3.00$33.33Poetry: A Pocket Anthology
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Starship Troopers
Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up—and definitely not the infantry. But now that he’s in the thick of it, trying to get through combat training harder than anything he could have imagined, he knows everyone in his unit is one bad move away from buying the farm in the interstellar war the Terran Federation is waging against the Arachnids. (from Amazon)
$4.00$9.99Starship Troopers
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Rules of the Road
by Joan Bauer
Paperback cover has a couple of label stickers on it. Otherwise no marks or tears.$2.99$7.99Rules of the Road
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