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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There once was a large country that was ruled by a General The General would take his army & attack all the countries around him until they were conquered Eventually there was only one small country left to conquer However this one did not resist but welcomed the soldiers
- leading to a quite unexpected result! 32 pages Mc Kee David
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' Well-being for all is not a dream' In this brilliantly enjoyable challenging rallying-cry of a book Kropotkin lays out the heart of his anarchist beliefs
- beliefs which surged around the world in the late 19th & early 20th centuries & which have a renewed relevance & poignancy today Humane thoughtful
- but also a devastating critique of how modern society is organized (with the brutal narrow few clinging onto their wealth & privileges at the expense of the many) The Conquest of Bread is a book to be argued over again & again

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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 Charting man&s complicated journey towards & mastery over flight this fascinating film uses both drama & documentary footage to present a highly cinematic account of the evolution of aviation encompassing early experiments in automated flight the development of bombers & aircraft carriers & the earliest experiments in vertical rotary flight A project initiated in 1935 by Alexander Korda as a potential collaboration with Winston Churchill The Conquest of the Air was produced in fits & starts over the following five years eventually being released in 1940 as a propaganda film to help the war effort both here & in America The film is featured here in a br&-new transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited aspect ratio ...

What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind & to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? David J Chalmers unveils a major new theory of consciousness one that rejects the prevailing reductionist trend of science while offering provocative insights into the relationship between mind & brain Writing in a thought-provoking style Chalmers proposes that conscious experience must be understood as an irreducible entity similar to such physical properties as time mass & space that exists at a fundamental level & cannot be understood as the sum of its parts Engaging & penetrating this book adds a fresh new perspective to the subject that is sure to spark debate about our understanding of the mind for years to come ...

Bedded banished pregnant! Talented photographer Coral Dahl can't afford any distractions on her first major photoshoot But the beauty of her location-the private Greek island of Hydros-is nothing compared to the lethal charisma of its owner tycoon Raffaele Rossini! A charisma that wary innocent Coral is powerless to resist Coral is astonished to discover her family is scandalously entwined with Rafa's & that she has a claim on his inheritance Branded a gold-digger she's dismissed from his bed & his life But the biggest surprise of all is that their one night of rapture has had unexpected permanent consequences! ...

Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award 2012 Fourteen-year-old Mariel returns to England for her grandmother's funeral It is the first time she has been back since she emigrated with her mother as a baby & it is the beginning of the uncovering of some really extraordinary truths about the Considine family Why did Mariel's mum argue with Grandma all those years ago? Why does Amelia wear so much perfume? Why is there a very large cat flap in Louvre House? Why does Gerald seem scared of his brother's appetite? Did Grandma Considine really break her neck falling down the stairs? & most importantly what is the dark secret that lies at the heart of the family? ...

Boethius composed the De Consolatione Philosophiae in the sixth century AD whilst awaiting death under torture condemned on a charge of treason which he protested was manifestly unjust Though a convinced Christian in detailing the true end of life which is the soul's knowledge of God he consoled himself not with Christian precepts but with the tenets of Greek philosophy This work dominated the intellectual world of the Middle Ages; writers as diverse as Thomas Aquinas Jean de Meun & Dante were inspired by it In England it was rendered in to Old English by Alfred the Great into Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer & later Queen Elizabeth I made her own translation The circumstances of composition the heroic demeanour of the author & the ' Menippean' texture of part prose part verse have combined to exercise a fascination over students of philosophy & literature ever since ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

The Consolations of Philosophy is Alain de Botton's internationally bestselling guide to life Alain de Botton bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life has set six of the finest minds in the history of philosophy to work on the problems of everyday life Here then are Socrates Epicurus Seneca Montaigne Schopenhauer & Nietzsche on some of the things that bother us all lack of money the pain of love inadequacy anxiety; the fear of failure & the pressure to conform' Singlehandedly de Botton has taken philosophy back to its simplest & most important purpose helping us live our lives' Independent' No doubt about it philosophy is the new rock & roll & Alain de Botton is its Colonel Tom Parker A pleasure to read & good writing like good philosophy is always a consolation' John Banville Irish Times' Few discussions on the great philosophers can have been so entertaining an ingenious imaginative book' Humphrey Carpenter Sunday Times' Witty thoughtful entertaining a stylish book which manages to make philosophy both enjoyable & relevant' Anthony Clare Literary Review' Gentle helpful & humane De Botton's instinct is surely right if we are to bring philosophy to life we should look again at those thinkers who have sought to be not clever or paradoxical but simply wise' Roger Scruton Mail on Sunday ...

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 a true story The Conspirator tells the powerful story of a woman who would do anything to protect her family & the man who risked everything to save her In the wake of Abraham Lincoln&s assassination seven men & one woman are arrested & charged with conspiring to kill the President Vice President & Secretary of State The lone woman charged Mary Surratt (Wright) owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth (Toby Kebbell) & others met & planned the simultaneous attacks Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington newly-minted lawyer Frederick Aiken (Mc Avoy) a 28-year-old Union war-hero reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal Aiken realizes his client may be innocent & that she is being used as bait & hostage in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt her own son John (Johnny Simmons) As the nation turns against her Surratt is forced to rely on Aiken to uncover the truth & save her life ...