Dotado de una fabulosa imaginacion y de una increible capacidad de trabajo, Dumas subyuga al lector para atraparlo en la intriga de sus historias desde las primeras paginas. En La reina Margot, utilizando unas deslumbrantes escenas teatrales, nos situa desde el principio en medio de un complicado nudo de tensiones politicas y de pasiones humanas elementales (amor, odio, poder, ambicion).

Presented via the natural method by Hans orberg, "Ars Amatoria" ("The Art of Love") allows students to read lightly altered Latin texts. The text is a poem in three books by Ovid. The first two books consist of instructions to men on the wooing of women of easy virtue; the third, of instructions to woman on seduction of men. The work is full of humor and charm, and contains interesting glimpses of Roman life and manners--the circus, the theatre, the banquet. It was perhaps partly on account of its immorality that Augustus banished the poet to Tomi by the Black Sea. These poems can be read by students who have completed the first five chapters of orberg's second-year text "Roma Aeterna." ("Lingua Latina Pars II"), also available from Focus.

Originally published by Yale University Press, 1972. To order accompanying audiocassette tapes for this book, contact the Language Resource Center at Cornell University (http: //lrc.cornell.edu).

Cambodian-English Glossary contains over 8,800 words. Originally published by Yale University Press, 1977. Reissued with permission by Cornell Southeast Asia Program, 1988. This is the third in a series of Cambodian readers prepared by Franklin Huffman and Im Proum, following their Cambodian System of Writing and Beginning Reader and Intermediate Cambodian Reader. The reader contains thirty-two selections from some of the most important and best-known works of Cambodian literature in a variety of genres-historical prose, folktales, epic poetry, didactic verse, religious literature, the modern novel, poems and songs, and so forth. The introduction is a general survey in English of Cambodian literature, and each section has an introduction in Cambodian. For pedagogical reasons, the selections are presented roughly in reverse chronological order, from modern prose to the very esoteric and somewhat archaic verse of the Ream-Kie (the Cambodian version of the Ramayana). The reader concludes with a bibliography of some sixty items on Cambodian literature. The glossary combines the 4,000 or so items introduced in this reader with the more than 6,000 introduced in the previous two readers, making it the largest Cambodian-English glossary compiled to date. The definitions are more general and complete than one usually finds in a simple reader glossary, in which definitions are normally context-specific. Because the glossary is so useful in itself, it is being made available separately as well as bound with the reader.

Originally published by Yale University Press, 1970.