& Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written directly or indirectly against totalitarianism & for democratic Socialism as I understand it& Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War chronicled in Homage to Catalonia Here he brings to bear all the force of his humanity passion & clarity describing with bitter intensity the bright hopes & cynical betrayals of that chaotic episode the revolutionary euphoria of Barcelona the courage of ordinary Spanish men & women he fought alongside the terror & confusion of the front his near-fatal bullet wound & the vicious treachery of his supposed allies A firsthand account of the brutal conditions of the Spanish Civil War George Orwell&s Homage to Catalonia

Includes:: an introduction by Julian Symons in Penguin Modern Classics

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Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written directly or indirectly against totalitarianism & for democratic Socialism as I understand it& Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War chronicled in Homage to Catalonia Here he brings to bear all the force of his humanity passion & clarity describing with bitter intensity the bright hopes & cynical betrayals of that chaotic episode the revolutionary euphoria of Barcelona the courage of ordinary Spanish men & women he fought alongside the terror & confusion of the front his near-fatal bullet wound & the vicious treachery of his supposed allies A firsthand account of the brutal conditions of the Spanish Civil War George Orwell&s Homage to Catalonia

Includes:: an introduction by Julian Symons in Penguin Modern Classics

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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 From the creators of How to Train Your Dragon & Shrek comes the hilarious & heartwarming smash-hit movie of the year that delighted audiences & critics alike – featuring the superstar voice talents of Jim Parsons Rihanna Steve Martin & Jennifer Lopez! When Oh a lovable misfit from another planet lands on Earth & meets a teenage girl named Tip the two unlikely friends embark on the greatest journey of all time Language English Subtitles Dutch French Dubbed Dutch French ...

&ANOTHER INSTANT COBEN BOLITAR CLASSIC& Michael J Fox For ten long years two boys have been missing Now you think you&ve seen one of them He&s a young man & he&s in trouble Do you approach him? Ask him to come home with you? And how can you be sure it&s really him? You thought your search for the truth was over It&s only just begun Praise for Home& Coben is a phenomenon
- the most reliable of American thriller-writers the least likely to disappoint the true mystery is Coben&s extraordinary capacity to keep writing such wonderful thrillers&
- The Times& Another instant Coben Bolitar classic&
- Michael J Fox& Told at breakneck pace it glows on the page… Terrifying & unputdownable&
- Daily Mail& Just finished the brilliant new Harlan Coben novel & Home& Myron Win & the gang are all back & some of it is even in London Loved it!&
- Richard Osman& To the aficionados of the series this will feel like a homecoming&
- The Guardian& The skill of Harlan Coben is illustrated by the ease that this novel uncoils with humour & empathy striating the twisty narrative … Home doesn’t require a bookmark as it is hard to put the book down once the spine is broken as your hands will appear glued to the binding&
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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 Based on the critically acclaimed book " The True Meaning of Smekday" by Adam Rex In " Home" an alien race invades Earth & uses it as a hideout from their mortal enemy When one lowly alien accidentally notifies the enemies of his whereabouts he is forced to go on the run with a teenage girl The two become unlikely buddies & embark on a comical globe-trotting adventure to right his wrongs in which our alien hero learns what it really means to be human ...

Salman Rushdie a self-described emigrant from one place & a newcomer in two' explores the true meaning of home Writing with insight passion & humour he looks at what it means to belong whether roots are real & homelands imaginary what it is like to reconfigure your past from fragments of memory & what happens when East meets West Selected from the books Shame Imaginary Homelands & East West by Salman Rushdie VINTAGE MINIS GREAT MINDS BIG IDEAS LITTLE BOOKS A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human Also in the Vintage Minis series Love by Jeanette Winterson Liberty by Virginia Woolf Race by Toni Morrison Sisters by Louisa May Alcott ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Home Alone When Kevin&s family left for vacation they forgot one minor detail Kevin! Eight-year-old Kevin Mc Callister (Macaulay Culkin) has become the man of the house overnight Accidentally left behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas vacation Kevin gets busy decorating the house for the holidays But he&s not decking the halls with tinsel & holly Two bumbling burglars are trying to break in & Kevin&s rigging a bewildering battery of booby traps to welcome them! Home Alone 2 Lost in New York Kevin Mc Callister (Macaulay Culkin) is back But this time he&s in New York City--with enough cash & credit cards to turn the Big Apple into his own playground But Kevin won&t be alone for long The notorious Wet Bandits Harry & Marv (Joe Pesci & Daniel Stern) still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin are bound for New York too plotting a huge holiday heist Home Alone 3A band of international crooks has hidden a military computer chip inside a toy car but an airport mix-up lands it in the hands of whiz-kid Alex Pruitt (Alex D Linz) who&s home alone with the chicken pox in a quiet Chicago suburb When the criminals zero in on Alex&s house with their high-tech gadgetry madness & mayhem kick into high gear as the pint-sized hero defends himself against the bumbling bad guys--armed with an outrageous array of ambushes & booby traps Home Alone 4 It&s tough being nine Tougher still is spending Christmas with dad (Jason Beghe) at his new girlfriend Natalie&s (Joanna Going) mansion even though it&s loaded with all the techno-gadgets any kid could hope for! But this Christmas Kevin (Michael Weinberg) is really in hot water again & so are Marv (French Stewart) & his sidekick (Missi Pyle) who are trying to rob Natalie&s house With funnier & more high-tech crime-stopping wizardry at his disposal than ever Kevin just might finally put these crooks on ice forever--and keep his parents together while he&s at it--in this uplifting hilarious comedy the whole family is sure to love Actors Macaulay Culkin Joe Pesci Daniel Stern John Heard Roberts Blossom Directors Chris Columbus Raja Gosnell Rod Daniel Producers John Hughes Mitch Engel Subtitles Czech Danish Finnish Hebrew Hungarian Icelandic Norwegian Polish Portuguese Swedish English Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Number of discs 4 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play To lose your child once is acceptable but twice is just plain careless--even if the child is a precocious brat Still that&s what happens in this double bill of popular slapstick comedies Home Alone features young Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) finding that his family have gone on holiday without him & he is left alone in the house To make matters worse some local crooks have their beady eyes on the seemingly empty property Kevin must find a way of stopping his home being robbed In the sequel Kevin gets lost in New York & in this city of millions of people comes across the same two crooks vanquished in the first film (Joe Pesci & Daniel Stern) Will the dumb bungling thieves never learn? ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Home Alone When Kevin&s family left for vacation they forgot one minor detail Kevin! Eight-year-old Kevin Mc Callister (Macaulay Culkin) has become the man of the house overnight Accidentally left behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas vacation Kevin gets busy decorating the house for the holidays But he&s not decking the halls with tinsel & holly Two bumbling burglars are trying to break in & Kevin&s rigging a bewildering battery of booby traps to welcome them! Written & produced by John Hughes this madcap slapstick adventure features an all-star supporting cast including Catherine O& Hara & John Heard as Kevin&s parents Joe Pesci & Daniel Stern as the burglars & John Candy as the " Polka King of the Midwest" Home Alone 2 Lost in New York Kevin Mc Callister (Macaulay Culkin) is back But this time he&s in New York City--with enough cash & credit cards to turn the Big Apple into his own playground But Kevin won&t be alone for long The notorious Wet Bandits Harry & Marv (Joe Pesci & Daniel Stern) still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin are bound for New York too plotting a huge holiday heist The Sandlot Kids During a summer of friendship & adventure one boy becomes a part of the gang nine boys become a team & their leader becomes a legend by confronting the terrifying mystery beyond the right field wall Offers German language dubbing & subtitles The Sandlot Kids 2 Ten years after a team of sandlot baseball playing boys faced a monstrous dog a mixed group of boys & girls take over the sandlot for the summer & they&re joined by an original team member&s younger brother a rocket-building science whizz While playing ball together they must confront the successor to the monstrous dog of 10 years earlier & again a ballplayer bravely faces his fear & uses overwhelming speed to defeat the beast Offers German language dubbing & subtitles ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Kevin Mc Callister (Macaulay Culkin) gets separated from his family at Christmas time again This time they&re in Florida & he&s in New York & the two bumbling gangsters from & Home Alone& (Joe Pesci & Daniel Stern) are out of jail & on Kevin&s trail ...