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ENGLISH


Focus publishes titles in both literature and school grammar. Other literature titles appropriate for humanities courses can be found in the Classical catalogue by clicking here.

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English grammar

The English Language: A User's Guide

Jack Lynch • paperback • 256 pages • 978-1-58510-185-6 • $14.95.   Book Details

A highly popular writing guide, originally online, now available in book form. Entries are arranged alphabetically and are written in a highly readable and engaging tone.

English In Blue and White: Lessons, Practice, and Resources in Grammar, Composition, and Literature           
Chris Giles and John Powell III
Paperback (spiral bound) • 98 pages • 1-58510-0838 • 2004 • $19.95  Book Details

English In Blue and White: Teacher's Edition (Answer Key)
• Chris Giles and John Powell III
Paperback • 36 pages • 1-58510-0846 • 2004 • $14.95

 


WRITING

Technical and Professional Communication:

Integrating Text and Visuals

Dolores Lehr • paperback • 222 pages • 978-1-58510-257-0 • $36.95.   Book Details

This technical communication text emphasizes the visual aspects of communication.


LITERATURE

Focus On Performance series
General Editor: James H. Lake

Each volume in the Focus on Performance series provides: an authoritative text with notes and a substantial introduction giving historical background, dramatic context, and performance history, including cinematic history.  There are also illustrations, a useful timeline, a list of topics designed to promote discussion, and an up-to-date bibliography.


Marlowe's Dr. Faustus

James Lake and Irving Ribner, eds. • paperback • 128 pages • 978-1-58510-089-7 • $10.95.

Book Details

     An authoritative text of Marlowe's classic play, with notes and a substantial introduction giving historical background, dramatic context, and performance history, including cinematic history. Interviews with Ralph Alan Cohen of Shenandoah Shakespeare and Andreas Teuber (Mephistopheles in the Richard Burton production) discuss issues of performance. Illustrations, a useful timeline, a list of topics designed to promote discussion, and an up-to-date bibliography. This text is based on the authoritative edition by Irving Ribner, updated, with much additional material on performance, by James H. Lake. 
     James H. Lake is Professor of English at Louisiana State University-Shreveport . He received his B. A. and M. A. degrees from Tulane University and his Ph. D. from the University of Delaware. He has published widely on Shakespeare and cinema, and is the general editor of the Focus on Performance and the forthcoming New Kittredge Shakespeare series.


NEW KITTREDGE SHAKESPEARE

Series Details

Series Editor: James H. Lake

Help promote Shakespeare with a complimentary posterRequest here with ISBN 978-1-58510-381-2

   

 

The Life of Henry V

Editor: Annalisa Castaldo

2007 • 978-1-58510-161-0 • paper • 144 pages • 5½ x 8½ • $8.95

 

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

Editor: Sarah Hatchuel

2008 • 978-1-58510-260-0 • paper • 142 pages • 5½ x 8½ • $8.95

 

The Tragedy of Macbeth

Editor: Annalisa Castaldo

2008 • 978-1-58510-162-7 • paper • 136 pages • 5½ x 8½ • $8.95

 

The Tragedy of Antony & Cleopatra

Editor: Sarah Hatchuel

2008 • 978-1-58510-272-3 • paper • 182 pages • 5½ x 8½ • $8.95

 

The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet

Editors: Bernice W. Kliman & Laury Magnus

2008 • 978-1-58510-163-4 • paper • 180 pages • 5½ x 8½ • $8.95

 

The Merchant of Venice

Editor: Kenneth S. Rothwell

2008 • 978-1-58510-264-8 • paper • 125 pages • 5½ x 8½ • $8.95

 

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Editors: Bernice W. Kliman and James L. Lake

2009 • 978-1-58510-140-5 • paper • 208 pages • 5½ x 8½; • $8.95

 

The First Part of King Henry the Fourth

Editor: Samuel Crowl

2009 • 978-1-58510-273-0 • paper • 140 pages • 5½ x 8½; •$8.95

 

The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth

Editor: James Wells

2010 • 978-1-58510-289-1 • paper • 152 pages • 5½ x 8½ • $8.95

 

The Taming of the Shrew

Editor: Laury Magnus

2010 • 978-1-58510-266-2 • paper • 140 pages • 5½ x 8½ • $8.95

 

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Editor: Jeffrey Kahan

2009 • 978-1-58510-313-3 • paper • 122 pages • 5½ x 8½ • $8.95

 

As You Like It

Editor: Patricia Lennox

2009 • 978-1-58510-279-2 • paper • 129 pages • 5½ x 8½ • $8.95

 

Midsummer Night's Dream

Editor: John Ford

2009 • 978-1-58510-165-8 • paper • 126 pages • 5½ x 8½ •$8.95

 

2009 Releases:

Othello (Schultz)  978-1-58510-253-2

The Tragedy of King Lear (Rothwell) 978-1-58510-265-5

Twelfth Night; or What You Will (Gaskill)  978-1-58510-164-1

The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Kilpatrick) 978-1-58510-271-6

 


FICTION

The Boss is Dead • Ron Pullins • Paperback • 132 pages • 1-58510-177-X • $14.95.

A novella by the publisher. That is, by the boss.

Details, go here.

A sample passage, go here.

Interested in purchasing a copy:
     In the Newburyport area it is carried at the Jabberwocky Bookstore at the Tannery
     Or, ask your local bookstore to order it through Baker and Taylor (unless they carry it!)
     Or, soon, through Amazon
     Or, call us at the order number below.


Focus Publishing / R. Pullins Co.
PO Box 369
Newburyport, MA  01950

Editorial Phone: (978) 462-7288
Editorial Fax: (978) 462-9035
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