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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...
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Contains the text of Shakespeare's comedy about identical twin brothers, both named Antipholus, who set off a wave of confusion when they arrive in the same town after a lifetime apart, bringing with them identical twin servants, both named Dromios; and includes scene-by-scene action summaries, full explanatory notes, and a critical essay.
4) Mrs. Miracle
Pub. Date
2010
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When her acting career does not take off, but her sister does with her fiance, Reba returns home to become a preschool teacher, and director of the Christmas pageant. After his wife dies, widower Seth Webster moves to town with his rambunctious twin boys. Mrs. Merkle, who is dubbed 'Mrs. Miracle' by the boys, is hired as a nanny and soon has the boys behaving nicely. It isn't long before Mrs. Miracle is sowing the seeds of love for Reba and Seth too....
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©2005, ©1989.
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Sixteen-year-old Louise Bradshaw dreams of the time when she can leave her isolated Chesapeake Bay fishing community and escape the shadow of her beautiful, confident and talented sister Caroline. It takes a special friendship and the birth of a new set of twins on the island to help Louise move beyond jealousy and frustration to discover her own talents and goals.
Pub. Date
[c2005]
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"Parent trap": Susan and Sharon are identical twins that are separated by birth. Once they realize who they are, they make a plan to switch place with the high hopes of getting their parents back together again. "Parent trap II": Now grown up, Sharon is a single mom whose daughter meets Mary and the girls turn into scheming matchmakers.
Pub. Date
2014
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Vanished: The mother of a murdered boy kidnaps and tortures the woman she feels is responsible for the crime.
Sparrow: A ranger with a machete takes out his aggression on a group of campers vacationing in his woods.
Nobody can cool: Susan and David believe they are about to spend a quiet weekend away, but end up as hostages in their cabin instead.
Bad behavior: Zoe is an experienced babysitter, new to this family, but not to the trade. When it...
11) Twins
Pub. Date
c1988
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An ambitious genetic experiment takes the wrong turn when twins - who look nothing alike - are born and then seperataed. Years later, the unlikely siblings meet and the mis-adventures begin.
12) Seconds apart
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Pub. Date
2011
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After telekinetic teenage twins involve their classmates in deadly games, a detective tries to stop them before they can kill again.
Pub. Date
[2001]
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Comedy spoof of the Zorro legend focusing on the twin sons of the legendary Zorro. Soon after dashing Don Diego Vega inherits his father's famous sword and blade, a broken ankle forces him to step aside and his flamboyantly fashion-conscious twin brother must assume the secret identity of Zorro in the ongoing fight for justice.
18) Twelfth night
Pub. Date
[2005]
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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.
19) Hereafter
Pub. Date
[2011]
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George is a blue-collar American with a special connection to the afterlife dating from his childhood. French journalist Marie has a near-death experience that shakes her reality. When London schoolboy Marcus loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each seeking the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might, or must, exist in the hereafter.
20) Stuck on you
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
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Conjoined twins, Bob and Walt, are happy living their lives together and manage just fine, playing hockey, working at the diner, and cruising for babes, until one decides he wants to be an actor and the other has stage fright and panic attacks.
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