A shabby chic style & The grandparents nest where the flock gathers& design wooden wall plaque with a gingham patterned bow ...

Tracklist Artiste &38; Repertoire Nine Days' Wonder The Management Fan Club Newsletter no 44 Backstage at the Ballroom Recorded Sound Keeping Time Widows & Orphans Now therefore Be that as it may ...

Tracklist So it begins Outside looking in Buyer beware There's always one Someone else Where does the Sadness come from?I suppose so The Performance of a Lifetime Commodities ...

Lyrical dark comic or iconoclastic the Irish short story has always punched well above its weight Anne Enright has brought together a dazzling collection of Irish stories by authors born in the twentieth century
- from Mary Lavin & Frank O' Connor to Claire Keegan & Kevin Barry With a pithy & passionate introduction by Enright The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story traces this great tradition through decades of social change & shows the pleasure Irish writers continue to take in the short-story form Deft & often devastating the short story dodges the rolling mythologies of of Irish life to produce truths that are delightful & real Also

Includes:: stories by Maeve Brennan Roddy Doyle Mary Lavin Colum Mc Cann William Trevor John Mc Gahern Colm Toibin Claire Keegan & Kevin Barry


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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play French horror from cult director Jean Rollin starring Marie-George Pascal & Felix Marten When a young woman finds herself stranded in a remote village she discovers that the population has become infected by a deadly zombie virus spread by the pesticides used on the vineyards Actors Marie-George Pascal Felix Marten Serge Marquand Mirella Rancelot Patrice Valota Directors Jean Rollin Writers Jean Rollin Christian Meunier Producers Claude Guedj Format PALLanguage French Subtitles English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 1 ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play John Ford&s adaptation of John Steinbeck&s classic novel follows the traumatic journey made by the Joads a dispossesed Oklahoma family who head towards California to begin a new life When Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) returns home after being released from prison he discovers the farmlands have been destroyed by dust storms Seeking a better future he leaves with his mother (Jane Darwell) & the rest of the family for California Their journey is far from easy however & there is no guarantee the &promised land& will provide the life they are hoping for ...

'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags I don't want him satisfied' Shocking & controversial when it was first published The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California Their story is one of false hopes thwarted desires & powerlessness yet out of their struggle Steinbeck created a drama that is both intensely human & majestic in its scale & moral vision ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play This American classic based on John Steinbeck&s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel follows Tom Joad (Henry Fonda in an Oscar- Nominated role) & his family as they escape the Depression-era Oklahoma dust bowls for the promised land of California But the arduous trip & harsh living conditions offer little hope & family unity proves as daunting a challenge as any other they face Actors Henry Fonda Jane Darwell John Carradine Charley Grapewin Dorris Bowdon Russell Simpson OZ Whitehead John Qualen Eddie Quillan Zeffie Tilbury Frank Sully Frank Darien Darryl Hickman Shirley Mills & Roger Imhof Director John Ford Certificate PGYear 1940 Screen Fullscreen 43 Languages English Additional Languages French; Italian; German; Spanish Subtitles Danish; Dutch; Finnish; French; German; Italian; Norwegian; Portuguese; Spanish; Swedish; Turkish; English for the hearing impaired Duration 2 hours & 3 minutes (approx) ...

The leaping chalk horse carved into an English hillside in the Bronze Age stands witness to centuries of human endeavour To Stella it represents home
- sanctuary from the adrenalin-fuelled highs & corresponding lows of her career as a singer Stella is tough & talented adored by every man in every audience but a loser in love Spencer Mc Coll is an American ex-fighter pilot making a last sentimental journey from Wyoming to the England of his mother's childhood & the white horse to pay tribute to the past Harry Latimer sets off to the Crimea as a captain in the Hussars with a heart burdened by his undeclared love for his sister-in-law Rachel The grim reality of the battlefield provides a bitter contrast to Harry's memories of the tranquillity of home Stella Spencer Harry
- each marches to the tune of a different drama Their stories are separated by many miles & generations but profoundly connected in ways they can never fully understand

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This unique book quite bowled me over both intellectually & as a gorgeous literary feast Bernard Suits not only makes philosophy enjoyable as it should be but does so without any compromise of real profundity -- Simon Blackburn Cambridge University ...