EM Forster&s vision of love struggling to assert itself in spite of the rigid class boundaries of Edwardian England A Room with a View contains an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury in Penguin Classics Visiting Florence with her prim & proper cousin Charlotte as a chaperone Lucy Honeychurch meets the unconventional lower-class Mr Emerson & his son George Upon her return to England Lucy becomes engaged to the supercilious Cecil Vyse but she finds herself increasingly torn between the expectations of the world in which she moves & the passionate yearnings of her heart More than a love story A Room with a View (1908) is a penetrating social comedy & a brilliant study of contrasts
- in values social class & cultural perspectives
- & the ingenuity of fate In his sparkling introduction Malcolm Bradbury notes that A Room with a View &was the work where Forster laid down most of his key themes the place where he displayed both his warmth & sharpness & developed his famous light style& This edition also contains suggestions for further reading & explanatory notes E M Forster (1879-1970) was a noted English author & critic & a member of the Bloomsbury group His first novel Where Angels Fear To Tread appeared in 1905 The Longest Journey appeared in 1907 followed by A Room With A View (1908) based partly on the material from extended holidays in Italy with his mother Howards End (1910) was a story that centred on an English country house & dealt with the clash between two families one interested in art & literature the other only in business Maurice was revised several times during his life & finally published posthumously in 1971 If you enjoyed A Room with a View you might enjoy DH Lawrence&s Women in Love also available in Penguin Classics

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EMForster&s delightfully satiric comedy of manners A Room with a View is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range & You love the boy body & soul plainly directly as he loves you & Lucy has her rigid middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte & finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Pertolini flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish the Cockney Signora curious Mr Emerson & most of all his passionate son George Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy & the repressed morals of Victorian England personified in her terminally dull fiance Cecil Vyse Will she ever learn to follow her own heart?A Room with a View is a sunny brilliantly witty comedy of manners & He says & even more implies things that no other novelist does & we can go on reading Forster indefinitely& The Times&I loved it My first intimation of the possibilities of fiction& Zadie Smith Edward Morgan Forster was born in London in 1879 He studied at King&s College Cambridge He wrote six novels four of which appeared before the First World War Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) The Longest Journey (1907) A Room with a View (1908) & Howard&s End (1910) An interval of fourteen years elapsed before he published A Passage to India It won both the Prix Femina Vie Heuruse & the James Tait Black Memorial Prize He last novel Maurice was published posthumously in 1971 He also published two volumes of short stories & a number of non-fiction books E M Forster died in 1970 ...

Andalusia is a passion
- & fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned He found a country broken by the Civil War but
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Previously published as Take Two A Royal Disaster is the second book in Meg Cabot's fantastically funny series The Princess Diaries Fourteen-year-old Mia Thermopolis is still struggling to come to terms with the fact that she's a princess
- & heir to the throne of Genovia! But when she announces on national TV that her mum is pregnant by her algebra teacher & plans to marry him a right-royal fuss results! Because now Mia's totally out-of-control Grandmere is all set to plan the year's biggest society wedding with every A-list celeb invited But will the bride & groom even turn up? & how can Mia find out the true identity of her mysterious secret admirer?
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play This Collector&s Edition DVD brings together an exclusive documentary about the Queen&s Jubilee portrait with two beautiful archive films creating a stunning package fitting of this momentous occasion Filmed in 2012 & The Portrait& documents artist Phil Richards as he creates an official portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for her Diamond Jubilee Directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Hubert Davis The Portrait is joined in this special edition DVD by two classic films about the royal family The first film shows Princess Elizabeth on her inaugural Royal visit to Canada in 1951 Entitled &A Royal Journey& this archive film charts the 33 day excursion the made by the 25 year old Princess & her husband the Duke of Edinburgh The second film is a colour broadcast of the Queen&s Coronation in 1953 a wonderful record of a historic event A Royal Journey
- The Queen&s Diamond Jubilee is created by the National Film Board of Canada in partnership with the Department of Canadian Heritage & Canada Post
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region Free Blu-ray player in order to play Julian Jarrold directs this British comedy drama following the future Queen of England & her sister as they go out on the town to celebrate the end of the Second World War On VE Day 8th May 1945 Princess Elizabeth (Sarah Gadon) & her younger sister Princess Margaret (Bel Powley) beg their parents King George VI (Rupert Everett) & Queen Elizabeth (Emily Watson) to let them leave Buckingham Palace for the night so they can join in the celebrations The King & Queen give their consent & Elizabeth & Margaret head out incognito but their night takes some unexpected turns ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Julian Jarrold directs this British comedy drama following the future Queen of England & her sister as they go out on the town to celebrate the end of the Second World War On VE Day 8th May 1945 Princess Elizabeth (Sarah Gadon) & her younger sister Princess Margaret (Bel Powley) beg their parents King George VI (Rupert Everett) & Queen Elizabeth (Emily Watson) to let them leave Buckingham Palace for the night so they can join in the celebrations The King & Queen give their consent & Elizabeth & Margaret head out incognito but their night takes some unexpected turns ...

The first memoir to emerge from the Vietnam conflict Philip Caputo's A Rumor of War is now regarded as one of the great classics of war literature ranked alongside All Quiet On the Western Front & The Naked & the Dead
- 40th Anniversary Edition with an introduction from Kevin Powers In March 1965 Marine Lieutenant Philip J Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam Sixteen months later having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars he returned home
- physically whole emotionally wasted his youthful idealism shattered A decade later having reported first-hand the very final hours of the war Caputo sat down to write simply a story about war about the things men do in war & the things war does to them' A singular & marvellous work
- a soldier's-eye account that tells us as no other book that I can think of has done what it was actually like to be fighting in this hellish jungle' The New York Times Unparalleled in its honesty unapologetic in its candour & singular in its insights into the minds & hearts of men in combat this book is as powerful to read today as the day it was published in 1977 Caputo has more than earned his place beside Sassoon Owen Vonnegut & Heller' Kevin Powers To call this the best book about Vietnam is to trivialize it A Rumour of War is a dangerous & even subversive book the first to insist that readers asks themselves the questions How would I have acted? To what lengths would I have gone to survive? A terrifying book it will make the strongest among us weep' Los Angeles Times Book Review Caputo's troubled searching meditations on the love & the hate of war on fear & the ambivalent discord warfare can create in the hearts of decent men are amongst the most eloquent I have read in modern literature' New York Review of Books Superb At times it is hard to remember that this is not a novel' New Statesman


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Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck & acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune This title deals with the two artists who at the height of their powers answer their needs to document human struggle 240 pages Steinbeck John ...

If you've ever wondered what happened to the young fellow from Malta who bought his grandfather an altar If you're concerned about the camper called Jack who found a huge snake in his pack & if you suspect that an eccentric landowner called Grey spent Christmas a very strange way but aren't sure precisely what that entailed Then a dip into Michael Palin's Sackful of Limericks will provide all the answers
- & a lot of fun besides
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