Arthur Miller&s play A View from the Bridge is a tragic masterpiece of the inexorable unravelling of a man set in a close-knit Italian-American community in 1950s New York Eddie Carbone is a longshoreman & a straightforward man with a strong sense of decency & of honour For Eddie it&s a privilege to take in his wife&s cousins Marco & Rodolpho straight off the boat from Italy But as his niece Catherine begins to fall for one of them it&s clear that it&s not just as Eddie claims that he&s too strange too sissy too careless for her but that something bigger deeper is wrong
- & wrong inside Eddie in a way he can&t face Something which threatens the happiness of their whole family This Penguin Classics edition

Includes:: an introduction by the author & a new foreword by actor Philip Seymour Hoffman


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This Student Edition of A View from the Bridge is perfect for students of literature & drama & offers an unrivalled guide to Miller&s play It features an extensive introduction by Steve Marino which

Includes:: a chronology of Miller&s life & times; a summary of the plot & commentary on the characters themes language context & production history of the play Together with over twenty questions for further study & detailed notes on words & phrases from the text this is the definitive edition of the play Set among Italian-Americans on the Brooklyn waterfront A View from the Bridge is the story of longshoreman Eddie Carbone When his wife&s cousins arrive as illegal immigrants from Italy he is honoured to take them into his house But when his niece begins to fall in love with one of them Eddie grows increasingly suspicious eventually precipitating his violation of the moral & cultural codes of his community & leading to the play&s tragic finale With its examination of the themes of sexuality responsibility betrayal & vengeance the play is vintage Miller & a modern classic

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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 Roger Moore lends humour elegance & lethal charm to his final performance as James Bond in A View to a Kill Bond confronts Max Zorin (Christopher Walken) who has devised a plan to corner the world’s microchip market even if he has to kill millions to do it But before Bond can stop the madman he must confront Zorin’s beautiful & deadly companion May Day (Grace Jones) ...

Vintage Feminism classic feminist texts in short form WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZOE WILLIAMS The term feminism did not yet exist when Mary Wollstonecraft wrote this book but it was the first great piece of feminist writing In these pages you will find the essence of her argument
- for the education of women & for an increased female contribution to society Her work made the first ripples of what would later become the tidal wave of the women's rights movement Rationalist but revolutionary Wollstonecraft changed the world for women
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A Vintage Christmas captures the very essence of what Christmas means to us & what real magic can be found written by some of the world's finest authors including Charles Dickens Arthur Conan Doyle Anthony Trollope Laurie Lee E 272 pages Various ...

A vintage wedding romance & a happy-ever-after ending
- what more could you want from the 'modern-day Jane Austen' In a small Cotswold
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Jennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar an ageing former punk rocker & record executive & Sasha the passionate troubled young woman he employs Although Bennie & Sasha never discover each other's pasts the reader does in intimate detail along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs over many years in locales as varied as New York San Francisco Naples & Africa We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties on her therapist's couch in New York City confronting her long-standing compulsion to steal Later we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage then a runaway living in Naples then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend We meet Bennie Salazar at the melancholy nadir of his adult life-divorced struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son listening to a washed up band in the basement of a suburban house-and then revisit him in 1979 at the height of his youth shy & tender revelling in San Francisco's punk scene as he discovers his ardour for rock & roll & his gift for spotting talent We learn what became of his high school gang-who thrived & who faltered-and we encounter Lou Kline Bennie's catastrophically careless mentor along with the lovers & children left behind in the wake of Lou's far flung sexual conquests & meteoric rise & fall A Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about the interplay of time & music about survival about the stirrings & transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates In a breathtaking array of styles & tones ranging from tragedy to satire to Powerpoint Egan captures the undertow of self-destruction that we all must either master or succumb to; the basic human hunger for redemption; & the universal tendency to reach for both-and escape the merciless progress of time-in the transporting realms of art & music Sly startling exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers ...

Join Thomas the Tank Engine on a royal adventure as he attends the Queen's birthday celebrations The Fat Controller has been invited to the Queen's birthday party far from the Island of Sodor in the biggest city in the land London & what better engine to take him there than Thomas the Tank Engine A delighted Thomas makes the long journey to London where he is put on a barge & taken down the Thames seeing Tower Bridge St Paul's The Shard Parliament & many other landmarks along the way Toddlers will delight in discovering the delights of London with their favourite engine It's a very proud day for the little blue engine in the big city & a perfect accompaniment to the Queens's 90th birthday celebrations Great for toddlers aged 2 & up Thomas has been teaching children lessons about life & friendship for over 70 years He ranks alongside other beloved character such as Paddington Bear Winnie-the-Pooh & Peter Rabbit as an essential part of our literary heritage ...

The renowned children's writer Michael Morpurgo has written this vivid account of a child's stay at a farm told in the form of letters home & illustrated with photographs of animals & children on location at the farm Humorous & engaging it conveys the fun & excitement of working closely with animals Turquoise Band 7 books offer literay language & extended descriptions with longer sentences & a wide range of unfamiliar terms Text type
- A recount of a visit There is a timetable of the week's events on page 22 & an index on page 23 to help children recount the story Curriculum links -Geography Plants & animals in the local environment; Citizenship Animals & us This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery
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