Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play James Franco directs co-writes & stars in this adaptation of William Faulkner's classic novel After the death of Addie Bundren (Beth Grant) her husband Anse (Tim Blake Nelson) sons Cash (Jim Parrack) Darl (Franco) Jewel (Logan Marshall-Green) & Vardaman (Brady Permenter) & daughter Dewey Dell (Ahna O' Reilly) travel with her coffin to the town of Jefferson Mississippi where she wished to be buried Each member of the family has their own motivations for completing the journey & the story is told from various characters' points of view Actors James Franco Tim Blake Nelson Jim Parrack Logan Marshall-Green Brady Permenter Directors James Franco Writers James Franco Matt Rager Producers Caroline Aragon Lee Caplin Vince Jolivette Miles Levy Format Blu-ray Region Region B2 (Read more about DVDBlu-ray formats) Number of discs 1 ...

The death & burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family as they cart the coffin to Jefferson Mississippi to bury her among her people & as the intense desires fears & rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South Faulkner presents a portrait of extraordinary power
- as epic as the Old Testament as American as Huckleberry Finn
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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 Adapted from the classic novel by William Faulkner As I Lay Dying is the story that chronicles the Bundren family as they traverse the Mississippi countryside to bring the body of their deceased mother Addie to her hometown for burial Addie’s husband Anse (Tim Blake Nelson) & their children Cash (Jim Parrack) Darl (James Franco) & three of their siblings leave the farm with her coffin
- each affected by Addie’s death in a profound & different way Their road trip to Jefferson forty miles away is disrupted by every antagonistic force of nature or man flooded rivers injury & accident a raging barn fire & not least of all
- each individual character’s personal turmoil which threaten the fabric of the family more than any outside force

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Tracklist A1 End Of The Beginning 040 A2 Pride Goes Before A Fall 332 A3 What A Waste Of Life 336 A4 I See You In Me 333 A5 Silent 415 B1 Necessary Evil 345 B2 Cure Is Worse Than Disease 311 B3 Quiet Place 351 B4 Loud 356 ...

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is a beautiful & moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with Rosie Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him the young Laurie Lee walks to London There he makes a living labouring & playing the violin But deciding to travel further a field & knowing only the Spanish phrase for ' Will you please give me a glass of water?' he heads for Spain With just a blanket to sleep under & his trusty violin he spends a year crossing Spain from Vigo in the north to the southern coast Only the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War puts an end to his extraordinary peregrinations ' He writes like an angel & conveys the pride & vitality of the humblest Spanish life with unfailing sharpness zest & humour'
- Sunday Times ' There's a formidable instant charm in the writing that genuinely makes it difficult to put the book down'
- New Statesman Laurie Lee has written some of the best-loved travel books in the English language Born in Stroud Gloucestershire in 1914 he was educated at Slad village school & Stroud Central School At the age of nineteen he walked to London & then travelled on foot through Spain where he was trapped by the outbreak of the Civil War He later returned by crossing the Pyrenees as he recounted in A Moment of War In 1950 he married Catherine Polge & they had one daughter Laurie Lee published four collections of poems The Sun My Monument (1944) The Bloom of Candles (1947) My Many-Coated Man (1955) & Pocket Poems (1960) His other works include The Voyage of Magellan (1948) The Firstborn (1964) I Can't Stay Long (1975) & Two Women (1983) He also wrote three bestselling volumes of autobiography Cider with Rosie (1959) which has sold over six million copies worldwide As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) & A Moment of War (1991) He died in May 1997

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Tracklist The Great Depression Explicit The Wounded World The Fire The Dark The Stigma (Boys Don&8217;t Cry) The Handwritten Letter The Question The Answer The Reaper feat Aaron Gillespie The Two Tongues (Screaming Salvation) The Truth I&8217;ll Never Tell The Haunting The Hurt The Hope The End Explicit ...

Tracklist Stage I Denial A1 The Great Depression A2 The Wounded World A3 The Fire The Dark Stage II Anger B1 The Stigma (Boys Don't Cry) B2 The Handwritten Letter B3 The Question The Answer Stage III Bargaining C1 The Reaper Featuring
- Aaron Gillespie C2 The Two Tongues (Screaming Salvation) C3 The Truth I'll Never Tell Stage IV Acceptance D1 The Haunting D2 The Hurt The Hope D3 The End
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'A magical book an inimitable fusion of ornithology literary anthology & autobiography' Tom Holland' Delightful an original look at the literature inspired by Britain's birdlife' the Guardian Best Nature Books of 2017 When Alex Preston was 15 he stopped being a birdwatcher Adolescence & the scorn of his peers made him put away his binoculars leave behind the hides & the nature reserves & the quiet companionship of his fellow birders His love of birds didn't disappear though Rather it went underground & he began birdwatching in the books that he read creating his own personal anthology of nature writing that brought the birds of his childhood back to brilliant life Looking for moments 'when heart & bird are one' Preston weaves the very best writing about birds into a personal & eccentric narrative that is as much about the joy of reading & writing as it is about the thrill of wildlife Moving from the 'high requiem' of Keats's nightingale to the crow-strewn sky at the end of Alan Garner's The Weirdstone of Brisingamen from Ted Hughes's brooding ' Hawk in the Rain' to the giddy anthropomorphism of Jonathan Livingstone Seagull this is a book that will make you look at birds at the world in a newer richer light Beautifully illustrated & illuminated by the celebrated graphic artist Neil Gower As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a book to love & to hold to return to again & again to marvel at the way that authors across the centuries have captured the endless grace & variety of birds' As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a memoirgallimaufry of ornithological obsession by Alex Preston He watches birds in the sky & on the page darting between myths stories & memoir like a swift The characterful illustrations by Neil Gower add a whole new dimension to this gorgeous book' Damian Barr Guardian Best Books of 2017 ...

'O let them be left wildness & wet' As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a selection of Gerard Manley Hopkins' incomparably brilliant poetry ranging from the ecstasy of ' The Windhover' & ' Pied Beauty' to the heart-wrenching despair of the 'sonnets of desolation' Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range & diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world & across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California & the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical & savage; poems epic & intimate; essays satirical & inspirational; & ideas that have shaped the lives of millions Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) Hopkins' Poems & Prose is available in Penguin Classics ...

AS Media Studies The Essential Introduction for AQA is fully revised for the current

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