Charles Lamb Books

This was the wrong book after all and I don't need it, but it was shipped fast and securely!

the book is a very intersesting one, but goes too much in detail, and gives too many examples.

I am using it for my thesis on the Music Industry and I find it helpful. 4 P's are so well explained.

An excellent book that introduces us to Marketing concepts with the help of various real-life examples. I didn't feel like I was reading a textbook for my class at all. Rather, I felt like I was reading an interesting magazine. I would definately recommend this book. It is awesome!

This comprehensive revision of the last edition shows real improvements. Two new chapters are included on Competitive Intelligence and One-to-One Marketing. Both are welcome additions. The Internet chapter is on-line since it would be futile to try and publish on paper about a subject that changes daily. There are severeal references to internet subjects and even some of these do not exist anymore. The books design has been modernized and the cases and real-world stories are very up-to-date. I use this text to teach a Marketing Certificate program at UCSB Extension to International students and they find it very understandable and stimulating.

The product came quickly. It was exactly as advetised and met expectations. Thank You.

Excellent! Highly recommended (the book form of this item is good also). Would not recommend some of the stories for young children, but my five and six year old like some of the comedies, like A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The Taming of the Shrew.

If you want to learn as a novice the tales of Shakespeare, then this is the book to read. A children's novel of his famous plays. Now to the English Shakespearean scholar this would seem like Shakespeare for dummies, but I would only partially agree. This is a great book to be introduced and gives a general framework before reading him. Even after reading this, its not an easy task trying to read Elizabethan English, which even the experts argue on some of the terms and expressions used. And so, this book lets you understand and I find its written rather well in Charles and Mary Lambs authorship.

After reading this book, which also make good for second, third and fourth readings, I found it much easier to absorb a recent bio on Shakespeare which was very enlightening, Will of the World by Stephen Greenblatt and also other books which attempt explanatory meanings of Elizabethan English to his plays and sonnets. Now you know what the plays are about and go from there. This is a great book, I treasure it.

When I first began homeschooling my children I came across this book. Since we were to soon see a high school production of Midsummer's Night Dream I read the Lamb version aloud to them before seeing the performance. The results were amazing. My children had no previous exposure to Shakespeare. The Lamb's ability to retain some of Shakespeare's original language greatly enhanced their comprehension. They loved the story and we able to follow the play with ease, laughing and clearly enjoying themselves much to the frustration of some nearby adults who were completely lost. This book helped begin their love affair with Sir William. I am of the opinion reading a well summarized version of his plays and then watching a well done performance will make any child appreciate the genius that is Shakespeare's work.

I remember my father giving me this book when I was young. He was a junior high school english teacher and used this book in class. Together we read the stories and I loved them. Now I am a college professor and use the book in class myself. While some of the summaries are "dated," they are still useful in communicating the basic action of the play to students and the very fact that they are "dated" allows the book to serve as an illustration of how interpretations of Shakespeare's plays have changed since the Lambs' time.

I recommend this book heartily.

In this volume Charles and Mary Lamb turned 20 of Shakespeare's best loved plays into narratives for children , and it is a work of art in itself.
Written in 1807 , the stories are still easily readable and enjoyable 200 years later.
It is the ideal companion for one who finds Shakespeare hard to follow in the cold print of the play scripts but would like an easy and gentle introduction to his plays.
These stories are today read not only because they are an introduction to Shakespeare but they are the works of Charles Lamb and his sister.
The easy flow of Tales , the unity of style throughout , narrative sliding naturally into dialogue and dialogue into narrative , shows what talented authors the Lambs where.
Sub-plots and subsidiary inicidents and characters which give richness and variety to the plays on stage can confuse and mar the narratvies.

Thus they are often left out in the narratvies , leading a Shakespeare afficionado to perhaps be alarmed that the antics of Malvolio and the wit and pranks of Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek are left out of the Lamb narrative of Twelfth Night.
But if they where included they would have confused an already complicated story , one of mistaken indentity and familiar absurdity.

Charles Lamb gives his own ideas as to the sanity or lack thereof of Hamlet and often at the end of the comedies Mary Lamb writes of the characters living happily ever after , giving a longer time frame to the narratives than exisited in the plays.
This fresh infusion of the Lamb's own ideas and wisdom , made this a greater work than had they been mere critiques or precis of the plays themselves.

Obviously, if you're an older reader well accustomed to the world of Shakespeare, this is NOT the book for you. These are "children" versions of Shakespeare plays. They're short, sweet, and a little simple, obviously. While they still have the same mature content as the plays, it feels more toned down.

You've got it all, really. Whatever Shakespeare play you love, you'll find it here, from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" to "Macbeth" and through "Hamlet". The stories are obviously the same, but the style is different. They feel a little like fairy tales, which is kind of the point. Children's stories, but of some of the greatest classics of all time.

These stories are fun to read, but don't think they're superb literature. They are a good way to spend an afternoon, but for older readers, the plays are still the way to go. This is better for older children and preteens who aren't quite ready to read Shakespeare himself, but can understand the stories themselves. I recommend it, but don't expect something incredible.

In the enthralling (literary fiction) historical novel, The Lambs of London, scribed by renowned British novelist and biographer Peter Ackroyd, the author hooks his readers on the discovery of a new dramatic script that might have been William Shakespeare's unknown literary treasure.

Set in London of the Romantic Period (late eighteenth/early nineteenth century), the novel gives a fictitious account of how Charles and Mary Lamb make acquaintance with a young bookseller who claims to have found Shakespeare's yet unknown work. The enthusiasm and skepticism that follow make this story a captivating read.

The author tells you upfront that the situations are purely fictitious. The real historical figures like the Lambs, Thomas de Quincey, and R.B. Sheridan only support the ambience of the literary environment of London at the time of the novel's events. However, the incorporation of these characters provides solid grounds for performing this literary march in which the name of Shakespeare leads the lives of its followers.

As the plot unfolds through the forays of William Ireland into Shakespeare's world, readers get a chance to take a close look at London life that is blanketed by ennui and unanimity at large. For the middle-class literary figures and businessmen dealing in books, Shakespeare's name signifies a boom that would shake people out of their dormancy. Whether it is turns out to their good or ruin is the point illustrated so cogently in the book's ending.

Peter Ackroyd proves to be skilled at `showing' instead of `telling' about a historical situation. As manifest in The Lambs of London, he shows how history can be created and made credible. However, the title of his novel calls critical thought to questioning of its relevance. William Ireland remains the dominant character in the story and precedes the Lambs in both attention and character development. The book's ending, though, makes it a story of the Lambs for a moment.

Armchair Interviews says: Ackroyd's novel is definitely a memorable creation for lovers of literary fiction.

I was drawn to the simple cover on this book and decided upon reading the summary that it sounded interesting. I have no prior knowledge of the Lambs but feel that they provided a frame work for the story of William Ireland rather than being the primary subject of the book. I had hopes of having their characters developed further but that was not to be. The story of William Ireland was very well written and though was not supposed to be completely factual, did leave one with a sense of wonder at just how brilliant a young man he must have been. I was sad to find that in the closing of the book nothing was mentioned of the sucessful career William Ireland went on to have as a writer of Gothic Novels. I have read Gondez the Monk, and Rimualdo or the Castle of Badajos, both very entertaining and complete with amazing poetry and verse. His love of Shakespeare is apparent in these writings as well.

The Lambs of London is the story of Charles and Mary Lamb, authors of Shakespeare for Children, and the great literary hoax that was played upon London in the first few years of the 19th century by William Henry Ireland, son of a book seller.

Charles is a clerk at the East India House. He's bored with his job and spends his free time in taverns drinking with his friends. In fact, when we first meet him, he is slightly less than sober. His sister Mary, is a fragile young woman who is emotionally and physically unwell. She idolizes her brother and puts up with Charles's coming home drunk at odd hours. They live with their parents, their overbearing mother and their slightly senile father.

They soon become acquainted with Ireland, who at the age of 17 is already a writer. To suit his own fancy, he "discovers" a lost Shakespearean work called "Vortigern" as well as a testament allegedly written by Shakespeare's father. Its pretty obvious that both works are forgeries; the text of the play uses too many 19th-century phrases and it only has four acts. The documents were also found under suspecious cercumstances that Ireland refuses to discuss. But London, caught up in this extraordianry new "find" recognizes the work as real and the play is performed.

While the major facts of the book are true, there is a lot that is not and there are a few misleading things as well. The dates are slightly off: in the book, the forgery and Mary's death take place in or before 1804; in real life, the forgery took place in 1796. In real life, also, Mary survived her brother. Shakespeare for Children was written in 1807; and while this book does not cover that time period, it might have been nice for the author to have at least mentioned it in his afterword. Also, before I learned very much about the Lambs, I'd assumed that Charles and Mary were much closer in age than they actually were (in realy life they were born nine years apart, she being the elder). Also (and this is a spoiler), when Mary attacks her mother and kills her, Ackroyd makes no mention of the fact that Charles did everything his power to prevent her from being sent to an asylum, including declaring himself her guardian. Aside from these historical details, which makes the book confusing in some places, this book is an excellent depiction of London in the pre-Victorian period. It's a quick read but well written and extremely fascinating. I also recommend reading Ackroyd's Shakespeare: a Biography.

Never has Georgian London been so rife with sensationalism as it is on Peter Ackroyd's The Lambs of London. When a short poem - the first verse to be discovered in two hundred years and then Vortigern, a lost play, both written by William Shakespeare are discovered, the city's literati are swept up in a flurry of excitement and anticipation.

Even the diffident and self-effacing Mary Lamb is intrigued by the unearthing, not the least because feels a romantic attraction to William Ireland, the ambitious young bookseller, who is now in possession of the manuscript. Picture poor Mary Lamb, holed up in her house in Holborn Passage reduced to a spinsterish-like existence, sleepwalking though life with only her nagging, irksome mother and her partly senile father for company.

Mary aches to connect with Charles, her brother and longs for him to come home each evening - when he is not wretchedly drunk of course. The egocentric Charles, however, seems more content to drink his life away at the local tavern, happy to pay little or no attention to his father's condition, and making no comment on the elderly man's increasing incapacity.

A budding writer and essayist, Charles continues to earn his living, as his mother has insisted, as a bored and jaded clerk at the East India House. Charles, in fact wishes to consider himself as a journalist and novelist, with all his hopes and ambitions directed towards literature. And he's exactly the sort of man the red-haired young William wants to court, hoping these newly revealed tokens of the Bard will enamor him of Charles and the rest of the Lamb family.

Are these Shakespearian manuscripts real or zealous forgeries? The experts all agree that the play at least is real. It doesn't matter to Samuel Ireland, William's father. As soon as William had first brought the papers to him, he immediately saw the profit in them. Convinced there will be more Shakespeare papers, he encourages his son to seek them out.

The author displays a fine grasp of the particular world, bringing the late-eighteenth century London to life, transporting the reader right into the city's fabric. It's a world of dusty bookshops, overcrowded theatres, and cramped alleyways, it's denizens of literature drenched in drama and passion and the very possibility that these masterpieces are really that of the world's most famous playwright.

As the story goes on, Mary unexpectedly unravels, her emotional state bursting without warning, and her evident unease and fits of temper becoming more pronounced; whilst William - whose ambition is matched only by his self-distrust - finds himself caught up in a complex web of betrayal and deception beyond his control. He's a man, who has aspired to success but expected failure, and his eventual comeuppance is a fitting testament to his devilish plan to fool everyone.

Blending fact with fiction, Aykroyd has written an irreverent romp, a somewhat bawdy journey through 1790's London, ultimately thrusting the reader into the stuffy world of antiquarian literature and the people who think highly of it. The true irony is that these manuscripts so easily captivate this community of authors, journalists, historians and booksellers, and the whole issue becomes a reckless and chaotic amalgamation of reference, hubris and misinformation.

When Vortigern is given its premier at Drury Lane, it doesn't take long for the naysayers to form their opinions and the poor William is forced to face some difficult truths. With characters that abound with intellectual snobbery and their appetite for battling with themselves and the world, The Lambs of London is an absolute delight for those who truly love the plays William Shakespeare. It's a reading experience that should be cherished, respected and savored. Mike Leonard August 06.

"The Lambs of London" is a nifty little book that blends history and fiction with just a soupcon of mystery to make for a very satisfying read. In the last decade of the 18th century, William Henry Ireland really did produce a number of Shakespeare-related manuscripts (including a letter to the bard from Queen Elizabeth) that experts swore were authentic. I know of no factual connection to Charles and Mary Lamb, but Mary's tragic history (somewhat telescoped here) dovetails nicely with that of Ireland, who, like Chatterton, was but a teenager when he committed his infamous forgeries, the most notorious of which was a "lost play" by Shakespeare entitled "Vortigern," after the Dark-age British King. Other sources give the full title of the play as "Vortigern and Rowena," although this is never mentioned by Ackroyd, and there are other minor discrepancies as well (for instance, Ireland's so-called "patron" and source of the manuscripts is usually given as another young man and not a woman), but Ackroyd is not so much interested in the truth as in the "larger narrative." And a riveting narrative it is! Along the way, we meet such period heavy hitters as Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Thomas de Quincey, and there are fine portraits of lesser-knowns such as Ireland's father, Samuel, an antiquarian who was ruined by the scandal, and Charles Lamb's circle of bibulous friends from the East India House, who stage a play of their own, portraying the "mechanicals" in Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream." The climax of the novel is a brilliantly realized staging of "Vortigern," which may or may not have been the travesty it was later judged to be. There is more attention to character and plot in "The Lambs of London" than is typical of Ackroyd's novels, thus making this one of his best. I recommend it warmly.

In short, nice little stories but lacked the poignancy of the Bard.

These brief narratives based on several of Shakespeare's plays are charming and enjoyable in their own right, but cannot replace the originals...except of course for the semi-literate or lazy.

This book saved my life in High School. It's a collection of stories, in rational narrative form, assembled from various Shakespeare plays (the originals of which are indecipherable because they are written in some sort of ancient English code).

This book basically covers it all from basic concepts to how to market a retail chain. It serves as a great into book to marketing and is pretty easy to read along with many graphics and charts. It's sectioned off well enough to grasp particular concepts without having to read the entire book also.

An Overview of Marketing , The Marketing Environment and Marketing Ethics,Consumer Decision Marking

It seems like marketing books are getting longer and longer, trying to make marketing more and more complicated. It isn't rocket science. Essentials of Marketing goes in the oppositer direction, giving you the basics of things that will work. Covers all phases of the marketing mix and does it with a style that isn't the usual stuffiness. The fact the book is in the 4th edition says it has staying power.

I read this book for my finance class and thought that it presented the material in a logical and meaningful way. There were interesting scenarios that it presented along with the information that helped illustrate the subjects. I recomend this book for anyone interested in marketing.

The content is average, but the text is very cluttered with extraneous sidebar information, symbols, different colored headings, and purple "online" blocks on many pages. My biggest complaint is that one chapter is completely missing. When you get to chapter 19, there are learning objectives, an outline, and then the reader is directed to go online to see the chapter. If you want to take the book with you to read, you must be near a computer for chapter 19, or print it. I paid a lot of money for a text book, which I assumed was complete. It is not. I was cheated out of one of the chapters that I paid for and then I had to print it out to read it away from my computer. Not ethical. I am very disappointed with the authors.

Overall, it is a good book. There are many great examples used with relevant companies highlighted. The information presented can be interpreted as biased and I often disagree with slant taken. The book layout and design is busy, and all of the supplemental features can be detracting at times.

Designed for Secondary/High school students, this "Tales from Shakespear" (by Charles Lamb) did a good job in simplifying all the Shakespearean works it covered. It is a double-volume book, which rendered a comprehensive novelettish pathway to the otherwise drama oriented Shakespeare ding. All those 17th Century dialogue structures were gone: replaced with a series of sweet-flowing prose. Everything about this collection would have been complaint-free, except that the publisher of the work was very unreasonable with its price. Very, very unreasonable!

As a long time fan of Shakespear, I picked up these books out of curiosity. I was delighted to find that although geared toward young readers, Lamb found a way to bring Shakespear's stories to life while eliminating the old English that can make reading one of his plays an often daunting task. I believe these books to be the ideal companion for a reader just starting to discover Shakespear, for besides being one of the most eloquent writers to ever live, William Shakespear was first and foremost a magnificent story teller. I'd recommend these books for both Shakespear amatuers and experts alike, for they are a simple, enjoyable read.

This casebook has a decision-making focus and addresses the challenges facing marketing managers today by reflecting priorities of a marketing manager: market orientation, growth strategies and target market strategies.

Never got the CD. Despite an email sent to the seller, never got a response.

Since Dr. Huizenga wrote this scathing book against Cold Fusion, so much has happened in the field. Even the U.S. Navy revealed in the Spring, 2003 that they have been clandestinely researching Cold Fusion for a decade. Their conclusion? Cold Fusion is real and it warrants an official government funded research effort. Dr. Huizenga, well meaning or not, missed the boat on Cold Fusion. It's too bad he put his closed-minded scientific views in writing for the whole world to see. I wonder if he'll be writing a new book when Cold Fusion re-emerges into the scientific mainstream in coming years? Cold Fusion is being replicated all around the world, and the skeptics are just flat-earthers at this point.

This is the greatest book describing the scientific fiasco of the century. It is a great book describing the theory and showing experiments to try and duplicate this process of cold fusion. Great Book.