WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY IAN RANKIN' In a class by himselfthe ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness & anxiety' William Golding In a small continental country civil war is raging 272 pages Greene Graham ...

Comedy directed by Bob Nelson & starring Clive Owen Jaeden Lieberher & Maria Bello Eight-year-old Anthony (Lieberher) looks set for an awkward day when he has to spend the weekend with his estranged alcoholic father Walt (Owen) while his mother & new husband spend time at a Catholic retreat Despite Walt also being reluctant to spend the weekend with his son & the steady flow of misfortunes that befall them from Walt&s truck breaking down to his toolbox being stolen they start to connect with one another & forge a better father & son relationship Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play ...

The author offers a new look at one of the most influential books in the history of philosophy Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus He presents the Tractatus as expressing the intellectual anxieties of its modernist epoch The most intriguing but usually unanswered question concerning the Tractatus is why Wittgenstein had to think that only propositions of natural science have meaning The author reviews the most popular interpretations of the Tractatus & comes to the conclusion that the early Wittgenstein was an ethical subjectivist With this insight he solves the tension between Tractarian theses that influenced neopositivism & its mystical part ...

Valentine's Day is approaching a busy time for Lake District florist Simmy Brown & she has a number of anonymous orders to deliver But the orders & their apparently innocuous messages cause great distress When one of the recipients goes missing Simmy must face the possibility that evil intent is at play ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Reprising their roles Oscar nominee Vera Farmiga (“ Up In the Air” TV’s “ Bates Motel”) & Patrick Wilson (the “ Insidious” films) star as Lorraine & Ed Warren who in one of their most terrifying paranormal investigations travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits The film follows the phenomenal worldwide reception of Wan’s “ The Conjuring” which marked the largest opening ever for an original horror movie The film went on to make more than 319 million worldwide & still remains the second highest grossing original horror movie of all time second only to “ The Exorcist” Rounding out the cast are Frances O’ Connor (TV’s “ The Missing”) as the single mum with Madison Wolfe (TV’s “ Zoo”) & newcomers Lauren Esposito Patrick Mc Auley & Benjamin Haigh as her children; Maria Doyle Kennedy (TV’s “ Orphan Black”); Simon Delaney (TV’s “ Roy”); Franka Potente (TV’s “ The Bridge”); & Simon Mc Burney (“ Mission Impossible Rogue Nation”) In addition to directing the film Wan wrote the screenplay with Carey Hayes & Chad Hayes & David Leslie Johnson Peter Safran Wan & Rob Cowan who previously collaborated on “ The Conjuring” are producing Collaborating with Wan behind-the-scenes is Oscar-nominated director of photography Don Burgess (“ Forrest Gump” “42”) Reuniting with the director from “ The Conjuring” are production designer Julie Berghoff editor Kirk Morri costume designer Kristin Burke & composer Joseph Bishara ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Based on the true life story " The Conjuring" tells the tale of how world renowned paranormal investigators Ed & Lorraine Warren were called upon to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity the Warrens find themselves caught in the most horrifying case of their lives From New Line Cinema comes a feature film drawn from the case files of married demonologists Ed & Lorraine Warren " The Conjuring" stars Academy Award nominee Vera Farmiga (" Up in the Air" TV&s " Bates Motel") & Patrick Wilson (" Insidious") as the Warrens & Ron Livingston (" The Odd Life of Timothy Green") & Lili Taylor (TV&s " Hemlock Grove") as Roger & Carolyn Perron residents of the house Joey King Shanley Caswell Hayley Mc Farland Mackenzie Foy & newcomer Kyla Deaver play the Perrons& five daughters & Sterling Jerins is the Warrens& little girl Judy Rounding out the cast are Marion Guyot Steve Coulter Shannon Kook & John Brotherton James Wan (" Saw" " Insidious") directed the film from a screenplay by Chad Hayes & Carey W Hayes (" The Reaping") The film is produced by Tony De Rosa-Grund Peter Safran & Rob Cowan with Walter Hamada & Dave Neustadter serving as executive producers Actors Vera Farmiga Patrick Wilson Lili Taylor Ron Livingston Shanley Caswell & Hayley Mc Farland Director James Wan Certificate 15 years & over Year 2013 Screen Widescreen 2401 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages English Audio Description ; French ; Italian Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; Italian for the hearing impaired ; English ; Dutch ; French ; Italian Duration 1 hour & 47 minutes (approx)
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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 true life story " The Conjuring" tells the tale of how world renowned paranormal investigators Ed & Lorraine Warren were called upon to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity the Warrens find themselves caught in the most horrifying case of their lives From New Line Cinema comes a feature film drawn from the case files of married demonologists Ed & Lorraine Warren " The Conjuring" stars Academy Award nominee Vera Farmiga (" Up in the Air" TV&s " Bates Motel") & Patrick Wilson (" Insidious") as the Warrens & Ron Livingston (" The Odd Life of Timothy Green") & Lili Taylor (TV&s " Hemlock Grove") as Roger & Carolyn Perron residents of the house Joey King Shanley Caswell Hayley Mc Farland Mackenzie Foy & newcomer Kyla Deaver play the Perrons& five daughters & Sterling Jerins is the Warrens& little girl Judy Rounding out the cast are Marion Guyot Steve Coulter Shannon Kook & John Brotherton James Wan (" Saw" " Insidious") directed the film from a screenplay by Chad Hayes & Carey W Hayes (" The Reaping") The film is produced by Tony De Rosa-Grund Peter Safran & Rob Cowan with Walter Hamada & Dave Neustadter serving as executive producers Actors Vera Farmiga Patrick Wilson Lili Taylor Ron Livingston Shanley Caswell & Hayley Mc Farland Director James Wan Certificate 15 years & over Year 2013 Screen Widescreen 2401 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages English Audio Description ; Castilian Spanish ; Czech ; Italian ; Polish ; Russian ; Thai ; Turkish Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; Italian for the hearing impaired ; English ; Arabic ; Castilian Spanish ; Complex Chinese ; Czech ; Greek ; Hebrew ; Italian ; Korean ; Polish ; Portuguese ; Romanian ; Russian ; Thai ; Turkish Duration 1 hour & 52 minutes (approx)
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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 A stylish 70&s-period crime thriller inspired by true events The Connection tells the story of real-life Marseille magistrate Pierre Michel (Jean Dujardin The Artist The Wolf Of Wall Street) & his relentless crusade to dismantle the most notorious drug smuggling operation in history the French Connection In his crosshairs is charismatic & wealthy kingpin Gatean & Tany& Zampa (Gilles Lellouche Point Blank Mesrine Killer Instinct) who runs the largest underground heroin trade into the States Though the fearless & tenacious Michel aided by a task force of elite cops will stop at nothing including boldly orchestrated drug raids devastating arrests & exacting interrogations to ensure the crime ring&s demise Zampa&s & La French& always seems one step ahead As La French mounts its retaliation Michel will be forced to make the most difficult decision of his life to continue waging his war or ensure his family&s safety before it&s too late The European flipside to William Friedkin&s & The French Connection& ...

Dr Johnson sums up the case against Milton "the want of human interest is always felt" It is the apparent distance of Paradise Lost from ordinary humanity that has thrilled or repelled critics throughout the ages While many readers are carried away by Milton's sublimity others are daunted by his grandeur scope & learning Milton himself declared that he would not begin to write until he had "completed the full circle of my private studies" The Greek word for a circle of learning is the root of "encyclopaedia"; & Milton's erudition is encyclopaedic Paradise Lost draws on both ancient learning & the scholarship of his day displaying not only his deep knowledge of the Bible & Biblical scholarship & his passionate assimilation of the classics but also his absorption in astronomy cosmology geography numerology & science Yet many critics of Paradise Lost argue that all this circling lacks a human centre Who after all is the hero? Adam & Eve in their unfallen state are too remote from us; Christ is not yet incarnate; God cannot be a character Which leaves us with the magnificently problematic figure of Satan In this fascinating study of Milton's great poem Caroline Moore suggests that contrary to what these critics argue the core of Paradise Lost is extraordinarily human Milton himself believed that poetry excelled at describing "the wily subtleties & refluxes of man's thought from within" This is precisely what Paradise Lost does If to a generation raised on the novel Milton's methods of psychological exploration seem strange this only intensifies the effect Paradise Lost is a poem that explores the dark byways & infinite strangeness of the human heart ...

It is hard to find anyone nowadays who will dare venture a bad word on Mrs Dalloway its status as a pioneer feminist text & a brilliantly experimental work is wholly secure At the time of its publication however opinions were more mixed It was hard in the mid-1920s to come to terms with what for many seemed a vexatiously new-fangled work The reading public was not yet ready for the challenge of what came to be called stream of consciousness narrative or the inner richness of a novel whose main event a superficial reading might suggest is an upper-class Conservative politician's wife's purchase of flowers for a summer party This recall in the immediate aftermath of a conflict the First World War which had shaken the whole of Europe to its foundations Before during & after writing Mrs Dalloway Woolf teetered on the edge of mental breakdown & more than once fell into its awful depths & on the edge of the main plot of Mrs Dalloway & its heroine's outwardly serene existence she places Septimus Smith
- a shell-shocked survivor of the Great War who finds peacetime too terrible to continue living in Mrs Dalloway is a novel which provokes thought about the fraught nature of genius literary modernism the ambiguous place of women in English society & literature the infinite complexities of sexual relationships & even the worthwhileness of life itself This book seeks to explore all this & to show that reading Mrs Dalloway can be one of the most rewarding experiences English fiction has to offer
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