Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.

Ha Jin is a contemporary Chinese American poet and novelist who is most commonly associated with the Misty Poetry movement. His contributions to the world of fiction have been awarded with such honors as the National Book Award and the Townsend Prize for Fiction. This Guggenheim Fellow was a young child in China under communist rule and was only 14 years old when he became a member of the People's Liberation Army. In this riveting book about this...

Sandra Cisneros is a Mexican-American novelist and poet whose works appeal to a broad spectrum of American readers. When her first book was published in 1984, she broke new ground; today, Cisneros is a popular and admired writer around the world. She is also a dedicated activist who works tirelessly for Mexican-American causes. Readers of Sandra Cisneros will learn how Cisneros went from being a poor, underprivileged kid in the barrio to the internationally...