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These cover the highlights and include pictures, narration, and text with links to further information.

Educational software for the entire family!

1. The Ancient World - the Renaissance
2. Treasure Island (Sensory/Descriptive Writing)
3. Time, Life, & Works of Ernest Hemingway
4. Time, Life, & Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
5. Heroines, Sirens, Shrews
6. Science Fiction and Fantasy
7. Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature

The Ancient World - the Renaissance

Survey European literature from its roots in the ancient Middle East to the Italian and Northern Renaissance. 

Examine the classical literature of the Greeks and Romans; medieval works, from early Christian to Chaucer; and the Renaissance literature of Petrarch, Rabelais, Cervantes, and others.

Includes a 44-minute multimedia presentation; 210 photos; and Barron's Book Notes, guides to the plots of eight literary works, including The Divine Comedy, Don Quixote, and The Prince.

Treasure Island (Sensory/Descriptive Writing)

This instructive CD-ROM not only offers excerpts from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, Treasure Island, in its study of the sensory/descriptive mode of writing, but also beautiful illustrations by the renowned artist N.C. Wyeth, which originally appeared in the "Illustrated Classics" series of the early twentieth century.

Includes a 15-minute multimedia presentation and more than 250 photos.

Time, Life, & Works of Ernest Hemingway

Discover the creative genius of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). 

Explore universal themes of love and warfare, courage and death, sincerity and disillusionment - all captured by Hemingway's concise narrative style.

Includes a 14-minute multimedia presentation; 300 photos; and Barron's Book Notes, guides to the plots of A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, and The Sun Also Rises.

Time, Life, & Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

Explore the world of Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340-1400), the Father of English poetry, whose insights to human nature found timeless express in Canterbury Tales.

Learn how Chaucer chronicled his world through an ingenious collection of stories that revealed the many contrasts defining medieval society.

Includes a 65-minute multimedia presentation; 280 photos; and Barron's Book Notes, a guide to the plot of Canterbury Tales.

Heroines, Sirens, Shrews

Trace the portrayal of women in literature through a survey of selected literary works, from biblical times to the English Renaissance.

Discover the parallels between the literary depictions of heroines and the historical contexts in which the authors wrote.  Learn how the depictions of women in literature reflected and influenced the roles of women in society.

Includes a 40-minute multimedia presentation and 170 photos.

Science Fiction and Fantasy

Survey the evolution of science fiction, from Voyage to the Moon, written in 1657, to acclaimed works of the 1970s. See how science fiction writers have portrayed rocket flight, time travel, and life on other planets. 

Writers discussed include Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Frank Herbert, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Nevil Shute, Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Philip Wylie.

Includes a 39-minute multimedia presentation and 250 photos.

Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature

A comprehensive overview of the authors, works, genres, and terms of world literature that combines the features of a dictionary with those an encyclopedia.

Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature merges the lexical work for which Merriam-Webster dictionaries have long been known defining, pronunciation, and etymology with the extensive and varied yet rigorously edited and verified information that typifies Encyclopedia Britannica. The editorial staff of this volume includes members of both organizations. 

Single User - Use in schools, colleges, and public libraries, or on a network is prohibited.

• Windows 95/98/Me
• 486DX/66 or higher
• 16MB of RAM
• 2X CD-ROM drive or greater
• SVGA, 256 colors
• Mouse
• Sound card recommended

Single User - Use in schools, colleges, and public libraries, or on a network is prohibited.

• 33MHz 68040+ Macintosh
• System 7.1+
• 8MB RAM
• 6MB free RAM required
• 2X CD-ROM drive or greater
• SVGA, 256 colors
• Mouse
• Sound card recommended

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