Seamus Heaney's engagement with medieval literature constitutes a significant body of work by a major poet that extends across four decades, including a landmark translation of " Beowulf". This book looks at this engagement, & examines both Heaney's direct translations & his adaptation of medieval material in his original poems. ...

GCSE Student Text Guides analyse popular set texts & poems in terms of themes, style, context &, where appropriate, characterisation & plot. Each guide concludes with advice planning answers & writing essays, & provides examples of A*- & C-grade answers to exam-style questions, together with examiner's comments. ...

Sean ' Puffy' Combs writes songs, raps, produces & oversees a successful entertainment & clothing empire
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Sean Connery's creation of secret agent James Bond invigorated Britain & its cinema, allowing a cash-strapped, morale-sapped country in decline to fancy itself still a player on the world stage. This title presents an investigation of what can happen to a man when the images he creates take over his life. ...

Why is the only non-American on the AFI's prestigious list a Scotsman? Perhaps it's because Sean Connery's career that made him a 'genuine movie star' without any petty disputation, pretension, or pandering to fashion. This book features portraits, colorful posters & lobby cards, rare film stills, & photos showing this star as he really is. ...

Sean Connery's creation of secret agent James Bond invigorated Britain & its cinema, allowing a cash-strapped, morale-sapped country in decline to fancy itself still a player on the world stage. This title presents both a biography of the star & an investigation of what can happen to a man when the images he creates take over his life. ...

Box set containing five movies starring Sean Connery. In ' Entrapment' (1999), after the audacious theft of a Rembrandt, insurance investigator Virginia Baker (Catherine Zeta-Jones) sets out to track down notorious art thief Robert ' Mac' Mac Dougal (Connery). She contacts him & proposes a scheme to steal a Chinese mask worth $40 million. In order to prove that she is trustworthy, ' Mac' asks Virginia to steal a vase from a local antique store. Having done this, she then sets about seducing the villain, in the hope that she will learn more about his next, most devious plan. In ' Rising Sun' (1993), Web Smith (Wesley Snipes) is the LAPD detective investigating the death of a beautiful woman in the boardroom of one of the most prominent Japanese companies in America. Assisted by wise John Connor (Connery), a golf-playing expert in Japanese culture, Smith's investigation takes him into the grey area between big business & organised crime, & sees him deal with both high-tech video manipulation & the occasional outbreak of martial arts action. Tia Carrere & supermodel Tatjana Patitz also star. ' The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' (2003) is Steve Norrington's film, based on the graphic novels of Alan Moore & Kevin O' Neill. It brings together several literary characters from the Victorian era to prevent the Fantom beginning a world war. It is 1899 & Allan Quatermain (Connery) is summoned from Africa by the British government to head a team of men with extraordinary abilities. The team

Includes:: Dr Jekyll (Jason Flemyng), Dorian Gray (Stuart Townsend), Captain Nemo (Naseeruddin Shah), vampire Mina Harker (Peta Wilson), Tom Sawyer (Shane West) & invisible man Rodney Skinner (Tony Curran) to form The League. Their assignment is to track down the infamous Fantom, but the catch is that they only have nine hours before he plans to sabotage the peace conference in Vienna. Will they work as a team & complete the mission or will their egos get in the way? In ' Zardoz' (1974), in the distant future the world is divided between two classes, the Barbarians & the Elite, with the former working in poverty & misery to support the decadence of the latter. The Elite have fashioned a huge flying stone head, the mask of the god Zardoz, & use it to collect grain from the Barbarians & keep them under their power. When one of the Barbarians, Zed, discovers a copy of L. Frank Baum's ' The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' in an old library he realises that what he has been told is a lie, jumps aboard the stone head, & begins an odyssey to uncover the secrets of the gods. Finally, in ' Family Business' (1989), Vito (Dustin Hoffmann) has left his father's (Connery) life of crime behind him & started a successful meat-packing business. Vito's son (Matthew Broderick), however, is very much interested in crime & wants to get in on Grandpa's next big score. & it isn't long before Vito finds himself in on it too.

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