For the first time ever the epic in-depth story of the creation of one of the most famous fantasy worlds ever imagined a richly illustrated compendium that reveals the breathtaking craftsmanship artistry & technology behind the magical Middle-earth of The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit Motion Picture Trilogies directed by Peter Jackson Middle-Earth From Script to Screen tells the complete story of how J R R Tolkien s magic world was brought to vivid life on the big screen in the record-breaking film trilogies The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy & The Hobbit Motion Picture Trilogy Drawing on resources stories & content from the archives of the companies & individuals behind the films much of which have never appeared in print before as well as interviews with director Peter Jackson & key members of the Art Department Shooting Crews Park Road Post & Weta Digital teams who share their personal insights on the creative process this astonishing resource reveals How the worlds were built brick by brick & pixel by pixel; How environments were extended digitally or imagined entirely as computer generated spaces; How the multiple shooting units functioned; How cast members & characters interacted with their environments Daniel Falconer takes fans from storyboard concepts to deep into the post-production process where the films were edited graded & scored explaining in depth how each enhanced the films He also discusses how the processes involved in establishing Middle-earth for the screen have evolved over the fifteen years between the start & finish of the trilogies Going region by region & culture by culture in this fantasy realm Middle-Earth From Script to Screen describes how each area created for the films was defined what made it unique & what role it played in the stories Illustrated with final film imagery behind-the-scenes pictures & conceptual artwork including places not seen in the final films this monumental compilation offers unique & far-reaching insights into the creation of the world we know & love as Middle-earth ...

If we had a keen vision & feeling of all ordinary human life' Dorothea is bright beautiful & rebellious Lydgate is the ambitious new doctor in town Both of them long to make a positive difference in the world But their stories do not proceed as expected & both they & the other inhabitants of Middlemarch must struggle to reconcile themselves to their fates & find their places in the world Middlemarch contains all of life the rich & the poor the conventional & the radical literature & science politics & romance but above all it gives us a vision of what lies within the human heart the roar on the other side of silence ...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable & collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives & changing fortunes in a provincial community Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund & pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; & the religious hypocrite Bulstrode hiding scandalous crimes from his past As their stories interweave George Eliot creates a richly nuanced & moving drama hailed by Virginia Woolf as 'one of the few English novels written for adult people' ...

The most ambitious narrative of nineteenth-century realism Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832 a time when modern methods were starting to challenge old orthodoxies Eliot's sophisticated & acute characterization gives rich expression to every nuance of feeling & vividly brings to life the town's inhabitants
- including the young idealist Dorothea Brooke the dry scholar Casaubon the young passionate reformist doctor Lydgate the flighty young beauty Rosamond & the old secretive banker Bulstrode
- as they move in counterpoint to each other Art religion politics society science human relationships in all their complexity nothing is left unexamined under the narrator's microscope One of the greatest novels written in the English language Middlemarch is a literary landmark in its groundbreaking approach as well as a priceless document of its age

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Introduction & Notes by Doreen Roberts Rutherford College University of Kent at Canterbury Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism disillusion profligacy loyalty & frustrated love This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke & Dr Tertius Lydgate &

Includes:: a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century Henry James described Middlemarch as a treasurehouse of detail' while Virginia Woolf famously endorsed George Eliot's masterpiece as one of the few English novels written for grown-up people

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The Penguin English Library Edition of Middlemarch by George Eliot' She did not know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly as in a dream before awaking with the hues of morning on his wings
- that it was Love to whom she was sobbing her farewell as his image was banished by the blameless rigour of irresistible day' George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives & changing fortunes in a provincial community Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund & pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; & the religious hypocrite Bulstrode hiding scandalous crimes from his past As their stories interweave George Eliot creates a richly nuanced & moving drama hailed by Virginia Woolf as 'one of the few English novels written for adult people' The Penguin English Library
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I was born twice first as a baby girl on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; & then again as a teenage boy in an emergency room near Petoskey Michigan in August of l 974' So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides & her truly unique family secret born on the slopes of Mount Olympus & passed on through three generations Growing up in 70s Michigan Calliope's special inheritance will turn her into Cal the narrator of this intersex inter-generational epic of immigrant life in 20th century America Middlesex won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Thriller set in Ireland based on religion & the goodevil struggle Gabriel (Matthew Mac Fadyen) plays a preacher who returns to his hometown to find it&s become a den of iniquity His own sister-in-law runs a slummy drinking den that is open on the sabbath cock fights street brawls & gambling are nightly occurrences & Gabriel is for none of it Considering it his personal duty to rid the place of Beelzebub & his handmaidens at once he starts in on his own family He soon has neighbour pitted against neighbour & the town in uproar A dark tale about the pitfalls of fundamentalism & piety ...