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Traditionally seen as one of Shakespeare's more romantic and enchanting plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream has more recently been seen as a darker and more sinister play than generations of schoolchildren have ever imagined. The play has usually been seen as a comical tale with confused identities and the fickleness of youthful love, as the young lovers, Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius and Helena escape parental control and the "sharp Athenian law" of their elders by eloping into the forest outside the city. Unfortunately they stumble into civil war in fairyland, where King Oberon and Queen Titania fight over possession of a beautiful young Indian "changeling" boy. The appearance of the "rude mechanicals", a group of Athenian workers, including the weaver Nick Bottom, compounds the confusion. Chaos, confusion and "shaping fantasies" reign before the final settlement of the play, but underneath all the hilarity many critics have discerned more ambivalent attitudes towards coercive parental control, bestial sexuality and the destructive power of desire. These approaches in no way detract from the exquisite lyricism of many sections of the play, but make it a more complex and effective comedy than has often been appreciated. --Jerry Brotton

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While on assignment in Utah, Christine Temetri isn?t surprised when yet another prophesied Apocalypse fails to occur. After three years of reporting on End Times cults for a religious news magazine, Christine is seriously questioning her career choice. But then she meets Mercury, a cult leader whose knowledge of the impending Apocalypse is decidedly more solid than most: he is an angel, sent from heaven to prepare for the Second Coming but distracted by beer, ping pong, and other earthly delights. After Christine and Mercury inadvertently save Karl Grissom?a film-school dropout and the newly appointed Antichrist?from assassination, she realizes the three of them are all that stand in the way of mankind?s utter annihilation. They are a motley crew compared to the heavenly host bent on earth?s destruction, but Christine figures they?ll just have to do. Full of memorable characters, Mercury Falls is an absurdly funny tale about unlikely heroes on a quest to save the world.

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Suit Up. Score Chicks. Be Awesome
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Gewicht: 162 gr / Abmessung: 21 cm
Von Stinson, Barney / Von Kuhn, Matt

It. Is. On. The latest book from bestselling author of THE BRO CODE, Barney Stinson, THE PLAYBOOK is like Niel Strauss''s THE GAME for Bros...

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Tucker Max?s books?I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell, Assholes Finish First, and Hilarity Ensues?are a uniquely engaging trilogy composed of his best, craziest stories. They?ve sold millions of copies to fans all over the world. Their success has meant his success.

As a thank you to those who have loved the stories and supported him for so long, Tucker has gone back through his massive archive of material one last time, culled out what you might call the ?best of the rest,? and arranged it here, in Sloppy Seconds, like a book version of Deleted Scenes.

Unlike most deleted scenes, however, these don?t suck. So enjoy.

Kurzbeschreibung

Tucker Max?s books?I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell, Assholes Finish First, and Hilarity Ensues?are a uniquely engaging trilogy composed of his best, craziest stories. They?ve sold millions of copies to fans all over the world. Their success has meant his success.

As a thank you to those who have loved the stories and supported him for so long, Tucker has gone back through his massive archive of material one last time, culled out what you might call the ?best of the rest,? and arranged it here, in Sloppy Seconds, like a book version of Deleted Scenes.

Unlike most deleted scenes, however, these don?t suck. So enjoy.

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