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Shakespeare's famous love tragedy is brought to life in this manga graphic novel, as Verona becomes a street in the highly fashionable Shibuya district of modern-day Toyko. Includes gang warfare and crazy sword fighting. |
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Samurai warriors have reclaimed a future post-nuclear world of mutants in the original manga version of Shakespeare's tale of skulduggery. The series keeps true to Shakespeare's original text, but is specially abridged for use in the manga, which makes it ideal for students to use as a primer and a way of getting to grips with the themes in Shakespeare's plays. A fusion of classic Shakespeare with manga visuals, these are cutting-edge books that will intrigue and grip readers. |
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This manga recreation of Shakespeare's text transfers the action from Ancient Rome to a future Iraq, once again facing dictatorship after its prolonged struggles to establish a democracy. Part of the successful Manga Shakespeare series, a fusion of classic Shakespeare with manga visuals. The titles available in the series so far are Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Richard III, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Macbeth. Features b/w illustrations with a 9-page colour section. |
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Banned for 27 years and initially published in a heavily censored edition, The Master and Margarita is probably the most important Russian novel of the 20th century. Written as a satire of Stalin's suffocating bureaucracy, the book has inspired Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, The Rolling Stones' song Sympathy for the Devil and the work of many other international artists, writers and musicians. The latest in SelfMadeHero's highly successful Eye Classics series, whose previous volumes include Romeo and Juliet and Nevermore. |
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Shakespeare's enduring characters are set adrift in present-day Athens, but a present with a massive difference — an alternative history. Rigid class systems and 'god given' monarchies of the past have not been lost. Modern technologies meet ancient tradition; and the citizens of Athens are frustrated by continuing restrictions and hierarchies. Only the forest, home to the fairies and fey spirits can offer the illicit lovers what they seek. |
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The Popeye Cookbook really encourages readers to eat their greens — with Popeye's well-known love of spinach, this is the perfect opportunity to introduce a whole range of nutritious recipes that are as fun to make as they are to eat. Popeye fans can now prepare a week's worth of healthy meals, with chapters on breakfast, lunch and dinner. Other chapters include vegetarian recipes, Swee' Pea's desserts, snacks, smoothies and seaside suppers. All recipes are easy to make with adult supervisision — and feature spinach as a main ingredient in some unexpected places! |
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Set at the turn of the 19th century, Pride and Prejudice is the much-loved story of Elizabeth Bennet and her four sisters as they struggle with the problem faced by any accomplished young lady: how to find a husband. Encouraged by their incorrigible mother, the Bennet sisters must navigate the minefield that is high society and try to secure the future of their family through a suitable husband. Illustrated in an accessible and colourful style for all fans of manga and graphic novels. |
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