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A gripping no-holds-barred origin story from one of London's most beloved socialites In this candid memoir Basia lays bare the many vicissitudes of her youth & examines her tumultuous relationship with her mother; a dazzling riotous & truly eccentric character with an explosive dark side After a bucolic childhood in rural Surrey Basia spent her adolescence in London living with Camilla & a string of surrogate fathers Abandoned to her own devices following the arrival of Camilla's despotic second husband she quickly rose to become a teenage ' It girl' of high society before an unplanned pregnancy & fall from grace led her to flee to Australia Trapped in an unhappy marriage in a dismal & isolated suburb of Melbourne her increasingly unhinged mother soon followed her & the situation deteriorated leaving Basia surrounded by alcoholism abuse & death while trying to protect her two young children Following a narrow escape & lengthy custody proceedings Basia's story is one of redemption as she has reclaimed the life that misfortune dispossessed her of & has been one of the leading lights of London society & no stranger to the royal household throughout the many years since ...

A woman devoted to her son struggles to keep him from spending his life in prison in this drama from director Bong Joon-ho Do-jun (Weon Bin) is a man in his mid-twenties who isn't especially bright & is easily led Do-jun lives with his elderly mother (Kim Hye-ja) who loves him fiercely even though she has no illusions about his abilities or his bad habits Do-jun spends much of his spare time with Jin-tae (Jin Gu) a borderline criminal who takes advantage of Do-jun's credulous nature much to his mother's annoyance When Do-jun is arrested by police & accused of the murder of a young woman his mother is certain he couldn't have done it & sets out to prove her son's innocence to police detectives who seem more interested in closing the case than researching other possible leads At first mother feels certain that Jin-tae has framed her son to avoid being punished himself but as she digs deeper she suspects the truth is more complicated ...

This version of Brecht's great anti-war play by playwright David Hare was premiered by the National Theatre London in November 1995 It adopts a freer approach to the text than many editions adapting the original rather than offering a close translation In this chronicle of the Thirty Years War Mother Courage follows the armies back & forth across Europe selling provisions & liquor from her canteen wagon One by one she loses her children to the war but will not part with her livelihood
- the wagon The Berlin production of 1949 with Helene Weigel as Mother Courage marked the foundation of the Berliner Ensemble Considered by many to be one of the greatest anti-war plays ever written & Brecht's masterpiece it remains a powerful example of Brecht's Epic Theatre & pioneering theatrical style
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Mother Courage & Her Children is widely regarded as Brecht's best work a theatrical landmark & one of the most powerful anti-war plays in history This unique bilingual edition allows students to compare the original German text with a translation by one of the world's leading playwrights Tony Kushner In this play a chronicle of the Thirty Years War Mother Courage follows the armies back & forth across Europe selling provisions & liquor from her canteen wagon One by one she loses her children to the war but will not part with her livelihood
- the wagon The Berlin production of 1949 with Helene Weigel as Mother Courage marked the foundation of the Berliner Ensemble The English translation by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner is inventive & vigorous making Brecht's epic drama accessible to the 21st century reader Contemporary language & humour make it the perfect English version to elucidate & compare with the original text This edition also

Includes:: a critical introduction & commentary notes on particular words & phrases


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Available as part of Nemesis Nows extensive giftware collection this beautifully detailed figure derives from Oberon Zell's Mythic Images Cradling the world as a pregnant belly it shows our Mother Earth protecting what she has created The cravings on her legs portray the creatures of the sea & those on her arms show the foliage of the forest adding to her ethereal look Sitting in the leaves which form her hair there are small animals insects & others life forms from different earth eras showing that she is the protector of our world This Millennial Gaia figure is cast in the finest resin before being expertly finished in bronze ...

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Traditional rhymes & stories have been collected under the wing of Mother Goose for centuries & this collection of favourite nursery rhymes has been put together by the famous illustrator Arthur Rackham It is a wonderful collection of old favourites from Jack & Jill Baa Baa Black Sheep & Who Killed Cock Robin? to comic alphabets & the fearful fate of Anthony Rowley It is illustrated with Rackham's beautiful pen & ink drawings & is one of his finest books ...

From I'm a Little Teapot to Row Row Row Your Boat these twelve classic nursery rhymes & traditional action songs are beautifully illustrated by the award-winning Axel Scheffler illustrator of The Gruffalo With a free read-along CD that slots neatly into the cover Mother Goose's Action Rhymes is a wonderful book for families to share Also available Mother Goose's Bedtime Rhymes ...