PLAY THE DEFINITIVE EDITION OF MIDDLE-EARTH SHADOW OF WAR FROM THE AWARD-WINNING MONOLITH STUDIOSWinner of over 60 awards & nominations conquer Mordor for the Bright Lord & enjoy 50 hours of story content 3 playable characters & the expansive Nemesis System The Definitive Edition
Includes:2 Extra Orc Tribes (Slaughter & Outlaw) Blade of Galadriel Story Expansion Desolation of Mordor Story Expansion Play as Eltariel & Baranor in their own expansions
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PLAY THE DEFINITIVE EDITION OF MIDDLE-EARTH SHADOW OF WAR FROM THE AWARD-WINNING MONOLITH STUDIOSWinner of over 60 awards & nominations conquer Mordor for the Bright Lord & enjoy 50 hours of story content 3 playable characters & the expansive Nemesis System The Definitive Edition
Includes:2 Extra Orc Tribes (Slaughter & Outlaw) Blade of Galadriel Story Expansion Desolation of Mordor Story Expansion Play as Eltariel & Baranor in their own expansions
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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' ...

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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George Eliot's masterpiece groundbreaking in its psychological insight into powerful clashes of obligation & desire Middlemarch is edited with notes & an introduction by Rosemary Ashton in Penguin Classics George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives & changing fortunes in a provincial English community prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment 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; passionate idealistic & penniless artist Will Ladislaw; & the religious hypocrite Bulstrode hiding scandalous crimes from his past As their stories interweave George Eliot creates a richly nuanced & moving drama This edition uses the text of the second edition of 1874 In her introduction Rosemary Ashton biographer of George Eliot discusses the themes of change in Middlemarch & examines the novels as an imaginative embodiment of Eliot's humanist beliefs Mary Ann Evans (1819-80) began her literary career as a translator & later editor of the Westminster Review In 1857 she published Scenes of Clerical Life the first of eight novels she would publish under the name of ' George Eliot' including The Mill on the Floss Middlemarch & Daniel Deronda If you enjoyed Middlemarch you might like Charles Dickens's Bleak House also available in Penguin Classics' No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference its intellectual power or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative'V S Pritchett' One of the few English novels written for adult people' Virginia Woolf ...

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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