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|  | Pride & Prejudice by Andrew Worrall, Anna Quindlen, Donald J. Gray, Frank W. Bradbrook, Isobel Armstrong
Excellent for both libraries & personal collections! All ages can enjoy the easy-to-read features of this LARGE PRINT unabridged Classic with LRS Readability Plus(tm): Sharp, bold EXTRA LARGE 18 point type. Wide spacing & margins. High-opacity non-glare white paper providing good contrast for both library & home reading. Durable highest quality binding allowing book to lay open flat with full-color hard covers. This timeless classic, PRIDE & PREJUDICE is a novel defined by romance, rivalry & ritual - a classic of its genre. A wonderful story of romantic love developing amid the constraints of social mores & familial rivalries. AUTHOR: Andrew Worrall, Anna Quindlen, Donald J. Gray, Frank W. Bradbrook, Isobel Armstrong
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Publishers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | Ricardo Legorreta
Ricardo Legorreta is the most renowned architect working in Mexico today. His signature use of brilliant saturated reds, purples, and yellows, thick-textured walls of stucco and plaster, and mysterious, light-filled spaces has earned him a devoted following and a distinguished international reputation. Legorreta's highly personal aesthetic combines a deep appreciation of traditional Mexican architectural elements and culture with a thoroughly modern sense of design that reflects his early training with the Mexican master Luis Barragan. This long-awaited monograph showcases 25 of the architect's most recent and celebrated projects in Mexico, Texas, and California, with stunning color photography throughout and special focus on nine private houses. An introduction and an interview with Legorreta, a list of projects, and a bibliography provide background and insight into this architect's prolific career.
PUBLISHER: Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | How to Stop Acting by Harold Guskin, Kevin Kline
Harold Guskin is an acting doctor whose clients include Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, James Gandolfini, Bridget Fonda, and dozens more. In HOW TO STOP ACTING, Guskin reveals the insights and techniques that have worked wonders for beginners as well as stars. Instead of yet another method, Guskin offers a strategy based on a radically simple and refreshing idea: that the actor`s work is not to create a character but rather to be continually, personally responsive to the text, wherever his impulse takes him, from first read-through to final performance. From this credo derives an entirely new perspective on auditioning and the challenge of developing a role and keeping it fresh, even over hundreds of performances. Drawing on examples from his clients` work and his own, Guskin presents acting as a constantly evolving exploration rather than as a progression toward a fixed goal. He also offers sound and original advice on adapting to the particular demands of television and film, playing difficult emotional scenes, tackling the Shakespearean and other great roles, and more. His book will find an eager and appreciative audience among novices and established actors alike. AUTHOR: Harold Guskin, Kevin Kline
PUBLISHER: Faber & Faber, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Romeo & Juliet by Alan Durband, Barbara Mowat, Billy Aronson, Brian Gibbons, Carol Hegarty
Set during five of the most intensely dramatic days ever portrayed, ROMEO AND JULIET was probably written in 1594 or 1595, and first published in a 1597 edition, as transcribed by actors who had performed it. Other editions appeared later, but even the more authoritative versions, such as that of 1599--probably drawn from Shakespeare`s own manuscript copies--lack the detailed stage directions present in the actors` transcription; thus, modern editions incorporate several sources. ROMEO AND JULIET is among the most oft performed of Shakespeare`s works, and it has been among the most beloved since its earliest days on the stage. Though the title page of the 1597 edition declares that ROMEO AND JULIET had been performed and enjoyed many times prior to its publication, the first extant direct record of the events of a production refer to a 1662 staging, in which the play was probably adapted or altered--adaption was particularly popular in the 17th century. One London stage ran different conclusions on alternative nights; audiences who went home glum on Friday could be uplifted by the play`s ending if they returned on Saturday night. The story of ROMEO AND JULIET was derived by Shakespeare from many sources. The version most contemporary to his own was the 1562 poem The Tragicall History of Romeus and Iuliet by Arthur Brooke, which itself was an adaptation of a French piece by Pierre Boaistuau, which Boaistuau had adapted from the Italian. Indeed, aspects of the tragic story have recurred throughout Western literature since at least the third century. Shakespeare greatly intensified the pace by compressing a piece which had unfolded over the course of several months into the space of five days--a period in which much transpires at daybreak, including the famous balcony scene where Romeo declares, But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?/It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Romeo is forced to approach Juliet in secret because of the impassioned rivalry be AUTHOR: Alan Durband, Barbara Mowat, Billy Aronson, Brian Gibbons, Carol Hegarty
PUBLISHER: Atria Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Romeo & Juliet by Alan Durband, Barbara Mowat, Billy Aronson, Brian Gibbons, Carol Hegarty
Set during five of the most intensely dramatic days ever portrayed, ROMEO AND JULIET was probably written in 1594 or 1595, and first published in a 1597 edition, as transcribed by actors who had performed it. Other editions appeared later, but even the more authoritative versions, such as that of 1599--probably drawn from Shakespeare's own manuscript copies--lack the detailed stage directions present in the actors' transcription; thus, modern editions incorporate several sources. ROMEO AND JULIET is among the most oft performed of Shakespeare's works, and it has been among the most beloved since its earliest days on the stage. Though the title page of the 1597 edition declares that ROMEO AND JULIET had been performed and enjoyed many times prior to its publication, the first extant direct record of the events of a production refer to a 1662 staging, in which the play was probably adapted or altered--adaption was particularly popular in the 17th century. One London stage ran different conclusions on alternative nights; audiences who went home glum on Friday could be uplifted by the play's ending if they returned on Saturday night. The story of ROMEO AND JULIET was derived by Shakespeare from many sources. The version most contemporary to his own was the 1562 poem The Tragicall History of Romeus and Iuliet by Arthur Brooke, which itself was an adaptation of a French piece by Pierre Boaistuau, which Boaistuau had adapted from the Italian. Indeed, aspects of the tragic story have recurred throughout Western literature since at least the third century. Shakespeare greatly intensified the pace by compressing a piece which had unfolded over the course of several months into the space of five days--a period in which much transpires at daybreak, including the famous balcony scene where Romeo declares, But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?/It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Romeo is forced to approach Juliet in secret because of the impassioned rivalry be AUTHOR: Alan Durband, Barbara Mowat, Billy Aronson, Brian Gibbons, Carol Hegarty
PUBLISHER: Arden Shakespeare
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Winesburg, Ohio by Christopher Sergel, George Guidall, Glen A. Love, John H. Feres, Malcolm Cowley
The hopes, fears, and regrets of the residents of a small Ohio town in the 1890s are the stuff of this cycle of short stories. Each chapter tells the story of a different citizen of Winesburg. A thread running through the stories is George Willard, a young reporter for the town newspaper, whose wanderings take him all over the town and its surrounding area, and eventually take him away from Winesburg, in order to pursue his dreams and to avoid the life of frustrated ambition that so many of his neighbors have led. AUTHOR: Christopher Sergel, George Guidall, Glen A. Love, John H. Feres, Malcolm Cowley
PUBLISHER: Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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