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- ED-05: Literature
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- Advantage Reader 2.6
- Advantage International
- $0
- #7551/3650 [3 disks]
- lets you view documents on your computer. It allows you to read, copy, print,
- insert "bookmarks", make notes and much more. You can instantly access any
- topic, search the entire document or parts of it, analyze it's structure, and
- retrace your steps in reading or browsing.
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- Included in this set are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Sign of Four,
- Common Sense by Tom Paine, The Time Machine, Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
- Hyde, The United States Constitution, Postal Rates for 1991, Federal Rules of
- Civil Procedure with Appendix of Forms, Aesop's Fables, and a collection of
- American historical documents and famous speeches.
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- Animal Farm
- Herbert, Steve
- $15
- #7466/3158
- helps high school students learn George Orwell's novel "Animal Farm". The
- program consists of notes, games and quizzes that keeps students on their toes
- while learning about the novel. A hard disk or high-density drive is required.
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- Also available in this series are "Romeo and Juliet" (disk #3159), "To Kill a
- Mockingbird" (disk #3160) and "MacBeth"(#2622).
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- Floppyback Sampler
- F.P.I. Inc.
- $0
- #3652
- contains extracts from classic works of literature in ASCII text. Included in
- this sampler package are 2 complete O. Henry short stories, 2 complete Sherlock
- Holmes stories, excerpts from Huckleberry Finn, the first 50 sonnets of William
- Shakespeare, and more.
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- Merchant Of Venice
- Herbert, Steve
- $20-$30
- #7725/4187 [2 disks]
- helps students learn about Shakespeare's play, "Merchant Of Venice". This
- program contains printable notes, games and quizzes, graphics of the Globe
- Theatre and a competition with the chance to win prizes; all of which provides a
- more seductive way to learn English Literature. Requires 512K, a hard disk or
- high-density drive.
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- Of Mice And Men 1.0 (#4188 [2 disks]) is a similar program that helps students
- learn about John Steinbeck's novel, "Of Mice And Men".
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- Shakespeare Plays
- Fanning, Teresa
- $8/play
- is a collection of twelve Shakespeare Plays that can be viewed on your
- computer. A glossary for archaic words can be accessed by selecting
- highlighted words in the text. The menu driven interface makes it easy to jump
- to specific scenes. The display colors can be easily changed. The plays
- available are:
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- #7457/3108 The Merchant of Venice and Othello
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- #7457/3109 Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth
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- #7457/3110 A Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet
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- #7552/3655 Twelfth Night and Anthony & Cleopatra
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- #7552/3656 Julius Caesar and King Lear
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- #7552/3657 As You Like It and The Taming of the Shrew.
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- Sherlock Holmes
- Advantage International
- $0
- #3456
- is a set of eight Sherlock Holmes stories, plus a program for reading
- them on screen.
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- War of the Worlds
- Advantage International
- $0
- #3532
- contains the H.G. Wells science-fiction classic, The War of the Worlds. The
- Advantage Reader, a program for reading paperless documents, is included.
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- Winter-Love in a Dark Corner
- Thornburg, Wilton T. II
- $25
- #7306/2729 [2 disks]
- is a multimedia animation of poetry by Christopher Marlowe, Lord Byron and
- others using images from ancient Greek art. Requires VGA, hard disk, and 640K.
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