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  • Frankenstein*

    Questionable Classics, #3

    by Ellis Keen ...
    Series Book 3 - Questionable Classics
    The complete, uncut text of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, annotated by someone who has questions.Ellis Keen's commentary runs throughout the novel, letter by letter and chapter by chapter, like a smart friend reading over your shoulder who worked out early that the title character is not the one with the bolts in his neck.Mary Shelley was eighteen. She started the book to win a ghost story contest ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Romeo and Juliet*

    Questionable Classics, #1

    Series Book 1 - Questionable Classics
    The complete, uncut text of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, annotated by someone who has questions.Ellis Keen's commentary doesn't wait in the margins. It runs straight through the play, scene by scene, like a smart friend beside you who has read this too many times to stay quiet.A three-day situationship. Six bodies. Zero functioning adults. We hand this to teenagers as the greatest love story ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Scarlet Letter*

    Questionable Classics, #2

    Series Book 2 - Questionable Classics
    The complete, uncut text of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, annotated by someone who has questions.Ellis Keen's commentary runs throughout the novel, chapter by chapter, like a smart friend reading over your shoulder who has met this town before.Hester Prynne wears her shame on her chest and survives it.The man who shares it keeps his hidden, and it hollows him out.Hawthorne wrote that in 1850, ... Read more

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  • Bookmarks (2020 Revised ed)

    A manual for combating hate speech online through human rights education

    This revised edition of Bookmarks reflects the end of the coordination of the youth campaign by the Council Europe. The campaign may be officially over, but the education and awareness-raising to counter hate speech and promote human rights values remain an urgent task for young people of all ages.The work of the Council of Europe for democracy is strongly based on education: education in schools, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Gender matters (2nd ed)

    A manual on addressing gender-based violence affecting young people

    Gender-based violence undermines the core values of human rights on which the Council of Europe is based and to which its member states have subscribedGender-based violence refers to any type of harm that is perpetrated against a person or group of people because of their actual or perceived sex, gender, sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Gender-based violence can be sexual, physical, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Compasito

    Manual for human rights education with children - Third edition

    Children are young citizens of the present, living in the 'here and now', rights holders and competent in many issues related to their lives. Human rights education aims to establish a culture of human rights. Human rights education should have a key role in any educational processes. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child offers an invaluable opportunity for introducing human ... Read more

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    Elizabeth Gaskell was a British author during the Victorian era, and her novels are notable for detailed descriptions of the different classes of society in 19th century Britain. ... Read more

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    Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain that it represents. Its figures harden their hearts, engage in violence, or try to alleviate the suffering of others. Lear himself rages until his sanity cracks. What, then, keeps bringing us back to King Lear? For all the force of its language, King Lear is almost equally powerful when translated, ... Read more

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  • The Three Golden Apples

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    Series Book 1 - Nathaniel Hawthorne Collection
    This is one of the popular Greek myths about Hercules and the three golden apples. It is adapted here by Nathaniel Hawthorne for children. This story is taken from “A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys.” The Three Golden Apples by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story about Hercules who searched for the golden apples that grew in the garden of the Hesperides. It is a pleasure to publish this new, high ... Read more

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  • Richard II

    A Play in Five Acts

    Series Book 11 - William Shakespeare Collection
    The Life and Death of King Richard the Second, commonly called Richard II, is a history play by William Shakespeare. King Richard II banishes Henry Bolingbroke, seizes noble land, and uses the money to fund wars. Henry returns to England to reclaim his land, gathers an army of those opposed to Richard, and deposes him. Now as Henry IV, Henry imprisons Richard, and Richard is murdered in prison. ... Read more

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    In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family. Mysterious deaths threaten the living. Musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the secret of the family’s salvation—or its downfall ... Read more

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