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The FIRST MAJOR BIOGRAPHY to seek out the real Charles from the New York Times bestselling author of Elizabeth the Queen PERFECT for fans of THE CROWN' For all we know about Prince Charles there is so much we didn't know
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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 Ten To Midnight The clock is ticking & time is running out as ace detectives Leo Kessler & Paul Mc Ann track down a psychotic killer who is brutally slaying young women Caught in a web of red tape they seem unable to bring the murderer to justice until Kessler&s daughter becomes the next victim & revenge becomes the most powerful of motives Kinjite
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Charles Darwin was a scientist by profession but an explorer at heart At age 22 Darwin embarked on his first voyage aboard a ship called the Beagle This picture book follows Charles as he explores South America for the first time collecting insects galloping with Gauchos digging up dinosaur bones eating armadillo for breakfast & making early discoveries related to evolution & natural selection He encounters a volcano a glacier & an earthquake & survives a harrowing five-year journey before returning home to England determined to devote his life to the natural world Complete with mesmerizing map work charting his voyage the biography communicates Darwin's ideas & discoveries with gentle illustrations that capture his admiration for the world around him ...
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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 Collection of BBC drama series adapted from the novels by Charles Dickens In & Great Expectations& (2011) eleven-year-old Pip (Oscar Kennedy) encounters escaped criminal Magwitch (Ray Winstone) while out on the marshes & out of fear helps him an event which will shape both of their futures When the wealthy Miss Havisham (Gillian Anderson) seeks the presence of a boy at her grand house Pip is sent to her & becomes a playmate for her adopted daughter Estella (Isobel Meikle-Small Vanessa Kirby) As a young adult Pip (Douglas Booth) learns that he will receive an inheritance from a mystery benefactor when he turns 21 Now under the guardianship of lawyer Jaggers (David Suchet) Pip moves to London where he hopes to become a gentleman worthy of Estella&s love In & Little Dorrit& (2008) the Dorrit family has spent years in a debtors& prison due to the financial mess in which father William (Tom Courtenay) managed to land himself as a youth Youngest daughter Amy (Claire Foy) known as Little Dorrit finds work with the wealthy Mrs Clenham (Judy Parfitt) but knows that her father will in all probability spend the remainder of his life in gaol However when Arthur Clenham (Matthew Macfadyen) recently returned from abroad comes to suspect that his late father was in part responsible for the Dorrits& plight he becomes determined to make amends But as he continues to delve into the mysteries of the Dorrits& & his parents& shared past he is unaware that his own mother&s house has been placed in peril by the arrival of a sinister stranger In & Oliver Twist& (2007) Oliver (William Miller) is born into a life of seemingly hopeless poverty Escaping the cruelty of the workhouse he has grown up in the young orphan makes his way to London where he meets a gang of pickpockets led by the charismatic Fagin (Timothy Spall) & receives the first warm welcome of his life
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Deeply respecting & bowing down before the character of Our Saviour you cannot go very wrong & will always preserve at heart a true spirit of veneration & humility Charles Dickens Charles Dickens was a great storyteller; he possessed the unique ability of documenting the realities of life for both his contemporaries & future generations A journalist commentator historian & the social conscience of a nation his influence & reach extended far beyond that normally associated with a novelist Although the subject of numerous books none have sought to detail how the writer tried through his work to change the hearts of his readers In this authoritative & highly readable new biography Keith Hooper explores the nature & development of Dickens's faith & the means by which it was expressed This excellent study of Dickens's beliefs & struggles with the contemporary church gives new & valuable insight into his literary work ...
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Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker Paperback

Charles Darwin the man who discovered evolution? The man who killed off God? Or a flawed man of his age part genius part ruthless careerist who would not acknowledge his debts to other thinkers?In this bold new life - the first single volume biography in twenty-five years - A N Wilson the acclaimed author of The Victorians and God&s Funeral goes in search of the celebrated but contradictory figure Charles Darwin Darwin was described by his friend and champion Thomas Huxley as a &symbol& But what did he symbolize? In Wilson&s portrait both sympathetic and critical Darwin was two men On the one hand he was a naturalist of genius a patient and precise collector and curator who greatly expanded the possibilities of taxonomy and geology On the other hand Darwin a seemingly diffident man who
appeared gentle and even lazy hid a burning ambition to be a universal genius He longed to have a theory which explained everything But was Darwin&s 1859 master work On the Origin of Species really what it seemed a work about natural history? Or was it in fact a consolation myth for the Victorian middle classes reassuring them that the selfishness and indifference to the poor were part of Nature&s grand plan?Charles Darwin Victorian Mythmaker is a radical reappraisal of one of the great Victorians a book which isn&t afraid to challenge the Darwinian orthodoxy while bringing us closer to the man his revolutionary idea and the wider Victorian age
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Charles Darwin the man who discovered evolution? The man who killed off God? Or a flawed man of his age part genius part ruthless careerist who would not acknowledge his debts to other thinkers? In this bold new life
- the first single volume biography in twenty-five years
- A N Wilson the acclaimed author of The Victorians & God&s Funeral goes in search of the celebrated but contradictory figure Charles Darwin Darwin was described by his friend & champion Thomas Huxley as a &symbol& But what did he symbolize? In Wilson&s portrait both sympathetic & critical Darwin was two men On the one hand he was a naturalist of genius a patient & precise collector & curator who greatly expanded the possibilities of taxonomy & geology On the other hand Darwin a seemingly diffident man who appeared gentle & even lazy hid a burning ambition to be a universal genius He longed to have a theory which explained everything But was Darwin&s 1859 master work On the Origin of Species really what it seemed a work about natural history? Or was it in fact a consolation myth for the Victorian middle classes reassuring them that the selfishness & indifference to the poor were part of Nature&s grand plan? Charles Darwin Victorian Mythmaker is a radical reappraisal of one of the great Victorians a book which isn&t afraid to challenge the Darwinian orthodoxy while bringing us closer to the man his revolutionary idea & the wider Victorian age

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