Guided by the poet Virgil Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell & embarks on his arduous journey towards God Together they descend through the nine circles of the underworld & encounter the tormented souls of the damned
- from heretics & pagans to gluttons criminals & seducers
- who tell of their sad fates & predict events still to come in Dante's life In this first part of his Divine Comedy Dante fused satire & humour with intellect & soaring passion to create an immortal Christian allegory of mankind's search for self-knowledge & spiritual enlightenment

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & region B Blu-ray It will require a region B Blu-ray player to play the Blu-ray & DVD or a Region 2 DVD player for the DVD From Jacques Tourneur director of numerous horror classics including Cat People I Walked with a Zombie & Night of the Demon comes The Comedy of Terrors a gleefully macabre tale which brings together genre greats Vincent Price Peter Lorre & Boris Karloff Price plays Waldo Trumbull a perpetually inebriated down-on-his-luck undertaker who has struck on an interesting way to boost business by hastening the deaths of those whom he buries When landlord Mr Black (Basil Rathbone) threatens to put him out on the street for falling behind with the rent Trumbull together with his reluctant & bumbling assistant Felix Gillie (Lorre) hatches an ill-advised plan to kill two birds with one stone so to speak The penultimate directorial effort from Tourneur The Comedy of Terrors bears many of the hallmarks of the master filmmaker s earlier works whilst adding a healthy dash of humour to the proceedings Careful you might just die laughing!SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTSHigh Definition Blu-ray (1080p) & Standard Definition DVD presentation of the feature transferred from original film elements by MGMOriginal Mono 20 audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray) Optional English subtitles for the deaf & hard of hearing Audio Commentary with Price historian David Del Valle Extensive archive interview with Vincent Price Whispering in Distant Chambers The Nightfall of Jacques Tourneur a specially-commissioned video essay by David Cairns which charts the career of director Tourneur Richard Matheson Storyteller an archive featurette on the Comedy of Terrors writer Original Theatrical Trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original & newly commissioned artwork by Paul Shipper Collector s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Chris Fujiwara author of Jacques Tourneur The Cinema of Nightfall illustrated with original archive stills & posters ...

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Two lives One night sky Roisin & Francois first meet in the snowy white expanse of Antarctica searching for a comet overhead While Roisin grew up in a tiny village in Ireland ablaze with a passion for science & the skies Francois was raised by his restless young mother who dreamt of new worlds but was unable to turn her back on her past As we loop back through their lives we see their paths cross as they come closer & closer to this moment brought together by the infinite possibilities of the night sky ...

At the end of life our comfort lies mainly in relationships In this book Daniel Miller one of the world's leading anthropologists examines the social worlds of people suffering from terminal or long-term illness Threading together a series of personal stories based on interviews conducted with patients of an English hospice Miller draws out the implications of these narratives for our understanding of community friendship & kinship but also loneliness & isolation This is a book about people's lives not their deaths about the hospice patients rather than the hospice It focuses on the comfort given by friends carers & relatives through both face-to-face relations & increasingly online communication Miller asks whether the loneliness & isolation he uncovers is the result of a decline of English patterns of socialising or their continuation This moving & deeply humane book combines warmth & sharp observation with anthropological insight & practical suggestions for the use of media by the hospice It will be of interest not only to students & scholars of anthropology sociology social policy & media & cultural studies but also to healthcare professionals & indeed to anyone who would like to know more about the role of relationships in the final stage of our lives ...

' The greatest Scottish novelist of modern times' Ian Rankin In this first novel by Muriel Spark
- author of The Prime of Miss
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The Coming of Bill (1920) is the nearest Wodehouse ever came to a serious novel although the influence of the musical comedies he was writing at the time is never far away 320 pages Wodehouse P G ...

If you want God & long for union with him yet sometimes wonder what that means or whether it can mean anything at all you are already walking with the God who comeslf you have ever had an obscure intuition that the truth of things is somehow better greater more wonderful than you deserve or desirethat there is a mercy beyond anything you could ever suspect you are already drawn into the central mystery of salvation Your hope is not a mocking dream; God creates in human hearts a huge desire & a sense of need because he wants to fill them with the gift of himself' So begins this much acclaimed modern spiritual classic in which Maria Boulding explores the self-giving nature of God & the many ways that he comes to us in the events of our lives in others & in prayer Its central message is that God comes to the empty & the needy Whether our need is material or spiritual here is a book of immense hope comfort & promise Maria Boulding is a Benedictine nun of Stanbrook Abbey in Worcestershire & in recent years has been living as a hermit ...

' Stories are something you carry with you something to last your entire life to be passed on to your children & their children for evermore' Duncan Williamson Duncan Williamson came from a family of Travelling People who told stories around the campfire for entertainment & for teaching As a child Duncan learnt the ways of the world through stories ' My father's knowledge told us how to live in this world as natural human beings -- not to be greedy not to be foolish not to be daft or selfish -- by stories' In this collection he passes on some of these wonderful children's folk & fairy tales For over sixty years Duncan travelled around Scotland -- on foot then in a horse & cart & later an old van -- collecting tales which not only come from the Travelling People but from the crofters farmers & shepherds he met along the way This collection

Includes:: tales about cunning foxes & storytelling cats hunchbacked ogres & beautiful unicorns helpful broonies & mysterious fairies rich kings & fearsome warriors as well as those about ordinary folk trying to make their way in the world The stories have been written down as faithfully as possible to Duncan's unique storytelling voice full of colour humour & life

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The Command of the Ocean describes with unprecedented authority & scholarship the rise of Britain to naval greatness & the central place of the Navy & naval activity in the life of the nation & government It describes not just battles voyages & cruises but how the Navy was manned how it was supplied with timber hemp & iron how its men (and sometimes women) were fed & above all how it was financed & directed It was during the century & a half covered by this book that the successful organizing of these last three
- victualling money & management
- took the Navy to the heart of the British state It is the great achievement of the book to show how completely integrated & mutually dependent Britain & the Navy then became

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