HOW DO YOU STOP AN ASSASSIN THAT CAN'T BE KILLED? Toby Greene is part of The Clown Service a mostly forgotten branch of British Intelligence tasked with fighting paranormal threats However the Rain-Soaked Bride is no ordinary assassin Relentless inexorable & part of a larger game merely stopping this impossible killer may notbe enough to save the day The Clown Service is fun & rips along like thefinest episode of the old Avengers series' The Independenton Sunday ...

With its frank portrayal of human passion & sexual desire DH Lawrence's The Rainbow was banned as 'obscene' in Britain shortly after first publication This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by James Wood Set in the rural Midlands The Rainbow chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family over a period of more than 60 years setting them against the emergence of modern England When Tom Brangwen marries a Polish widow Lydia Lensky & adopts her daughter Anna as his own he is unprepared for the conflict & passion that erupts between them All are seeking individual fulfilment but it is Ursula Anne's spirited daughter who in her search for self-knowedge becomes the focus of Lawrence's examination of relationships & the conflicts they bring & the inextricable mingling of the physical & the spiritual Suffused with Biblical imagery The Rainbow addresses searching human issues in a setting of precise & vivid detail In his introduction James Wood discusses Lawrence's writing style & the tensions & themes of The Rainbow This Penguin edition reproduces the Cambridge text which provides a text as close as possible to Lawrence's original It also

Includes:: suggested further reading a fragment of ' The Sisters II' from his first draft & chronologies of Lawrence's life & of The Rainbow's Brangwen family DH Lawrence (1885-1930) English novelist storywriter critic poet & painter one of the greatest figures in 20th-century English literature Lawrence published Sons & Lovers in 1913 but The Rainbow completed in 1915 was declared obscene & banned two months after first publication; & for three years he could not find a publisher for Women in Love which he completed in 1917 His last novel Lady Chatterley's Lover was published in 1928 but banned in England & America If you enjoyed The Rainbow you might like Lawrence's Women in Love also available in Penguin Classics'A brave & important book passionate & wildly ambitious' Independent on Sunday

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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 Ken Russell&s sensuous dramatisation of DH Lawrence&s novel stars Sammi Davis as Ursula Brangwen a young women in the process of discovering her sexuality At school she enjoys a passionate affair with the gym mistress Winifred Inger (Amanda Donohoe) & later becomes a teacher herself But when she meets & marries the soldier Anton Skrebensky (Paul Mc Gann) it gradually becomes clear to her that true satisfaction lies elsewhere ...

The polar bear is bored of his white environment & his hard life He dreams of soaking himself in all the luminous colours of the rainbow But when his wish is granted he realises to his cost that his arctic camouflage no longer works & he needs the advice of others to escape his prism A moving tale of hopes & dreams from an award-winning picture book team The lyrical text is complemented by beautiful watercolours in which the joy & pain of the Rainbow Bear sing out ...

With an Introduction & Notes by Lionel Kelly University of Reading In 1915 Lawrence's frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore & the novel was seized by the police & banned almost as soon as it was published Today it is recognised as one of the classic English novels of the twentieth century The Rainbow is about three generations of the Brangwen family of Nottinghamshire from the 1840s to the early years of the twentieth century Within this framework Lawrence's essential concern is with the passional lives of his characters as he explores the pressures that determine their lives using a religious symbolism in which the 'rainbow' of the title is his unifying motif His primary focus is on the individual's struggle to growth & fulfilment within marriage & changing social circumstances a process shown to grow more difficult through the generations Young Ursula Brangwen whose story is continued in Women in Love is finally the central figure in Lawrence's anatomy of the confining structures of English social life & the impact of industrialisation & urbanisation on the human psyche ...

Tracklist Fairytale In The Supermarket No Side To Fall In Adventures Close To Home A Off Duty Trip Black & White Lola The Void Life On The Line You're A Million In Love No Looking ...

A wonderful new anthology of poems by winner of the Queens Medal & the Eleanor Farjeon Award 2016 Do trianglesever get into a tangle when their sides meet their angles?A wonderful new children's poetry collection from a celebrated award-winning poet From nature & science to identity prepare to be transported on a journey through past & present This collection from John Agard winner of the Queens Medal & the Eleanor Farjeon Award explores the wonders of the world
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Records the encounter between East & West through the experiences of a dozen people caught up in the upheavals of the Second World War & the growing campaign for Indian independence This book describes the love between an English girl & an Indian boy Daphne Manners & Hari Kumar 1032 pages Scott Paul ...

The Ramayana is quite simply the greatest of Indian epics
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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 If David Lynch & David Cronenberg teamed up with Werner Herzog early in their careers & made a movie together says Twitch Film it would have been Calvin Lee Reeder&s THE RAMBLER Dermot Mulroney of THE GREY & ZODIAC stars as an ex-con just released from prison kicked out of his trailer home & gone on a cross-country journey to his long-lost brother s pony ranch But along the way he ll encounter a depraved American underbelly of dusty towns bizarre strangers sudden violence & a device that can record dreams onto VHS Lindsay Pulsipher (Justified True Blood ) & Natasha Lyonne (AMERICAN PIE) co-star in this surreal Sundance sensation about shadowy pasts questionable futures & the deadpan travelling man known only as THE RAMBLER ...