Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism brilliant craftsmanship legendary wit & ultimately his tragic muse He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace artistry & wit of which the best-known is The Happy Prince Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray which shocked & outraged many readers of his day & his stories for adults which exhibited his fascination with the relations between serene art & decadent life Wilde took London by storm with his plays particularly his masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest His essays
- in particular De Profundis- & his Ballad of Reading Gaol both written after his release from prison strikingly break the bounds of his usual expressive range His other essays & poems are all included in this comprehensive collection of the works of one of the most exciting writers of the late nineteenth century
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Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism brilliant craftsmanship legendary wit & ultimately his tragic muse He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace artistry & wit of which the best-known is The Happy Prince Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray which shocked & outraged many readers of his day & his stories for adults which exhibited his fascination with the relations between serene art & decadent life Wilde took London by storm with his plays particularly his masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest His essays
- in particular De Profundis- & his Ballad of Reading Gaol both written after his release from prison strikingly break the bounds of his usual expressive range His other essays & poems are all included in this comprehensive collection of the works of one of the most exciting writers of the late nineteenth century
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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 From the writing-directing team Marcus Dunstan & Patrick Melton (Saw IV V VI & 3D) comes The Collection a suspense horror film with nonstop thrills at every turn Directed by Dunstan & starring Josh Stewart (The Dark Knight Rises The Collector) Emma Fitzpatrick (The Social Network) & Christopher Mc Donald (Boardwalk Empire Requiem for a Dream) the film centers on a traumatized man forced to help rescue a beautiful woman who has become the latest obsession of a crazed killer who collects humans in a booby-trapped house of horrors Actors Josh Stewart Emma Fitzpatrick Christopher Mc Donald Directors Marcus Dunstan Classification 18 ...

Withdrawn uneducated & unloved Frederick collects butterflies & takes photographs He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger the art student Miranda When he wins the pools he buys a remote Sussex house & calmly abducts Miranda believing she will grow to love him in time Alone & desperate Miranda must struggle to overcome her own prejudices & contempt if she is understand her captor & so gain her freedom ...

'A crime novel of the very first order'
- David Baldacci If you like Mo Hayder & Thomas Harris you'll love The Collector Jakey
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In this all-new graphic novel a spaceship crashes into a separatist camp & manages to reanimate the dead as well! It aliens vs zombies vs militiamen in a carnage-filled tale! ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Inspired by true events The Colony tells the harrowing true story of Lena & Daniel a young couple who become entangled in a Chilean cult in 1973 When Daniel is brutally abducted by the military&s secret police Lena embarks on a desperate search for her boyfriend She tracks him to Colonia Dignidad an infamous compound run by a sinister preacher with an iron fist Paul Schäfer Offering herself up as a follower Lena decides the only way she can free Daniel is to infiltrate the cult But can she herself survive Colonia s vicious regime? ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Inspired by true events The Colony tells the harrowing true story of Lena & Daniel a young couple who become entangled in a Chilean cult in 1973 When Daniel is brutally abducted by the military&s secret police Lena embarks on a desperate search for her boyfriend She tracks him to Colonia Dignidad an infamous compound run by a sinister preacher with an iron fist Paul Schäfer Offering herself up as a follower Lena decides the only way she can free Daniel is to infiltrate the cult But can she herself survive Colonia s vicious regime? ...

Nao is a high-school student with a secret he carefully hides from everybody he's fallen in love with his close friend Hira But Nao is terrified when he suspects Hira might have noticed his feelings! ...

Rejecting the view that racial differences in educational achievement are a product of innate or cultural differences Darby & Rury uncover the historical interplay between ideas about race & American schooling to show clearly that the racial achievement gap has been socially & institutionally constructed 224 pages 2 halftones 3 tables Darby Derrick ...