The Penguin English Library Edition of The Man Who Was Thursday by G K Chesterton'A man's brain is a bomb he cried out loosening suddenly his strange passion & striking his own skull with violence My brain feels like a bomb night & day It must expand! It must expand! A man's brain must expand if it breaks up the universe' In a park in London secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist Sworn to do his duty Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe's Central Anarchist Council & infiltrate their deadly mission even managing to have himself voted to the position of ' Thursday' When Syme discovers another undercover policeman on the Council however he starts to question his role in their operations & as a desperate chase across Europe begins his confusion grows as well as his confidence in his ability to outwit his enemies But he has still to face the greatest terror that the Council has a man named Sunday whose true nature is worse than Syme could ever have imagined The Penguin English Library
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GK Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday is a thrilling novel of deception subterfuge double-crossing & secret identities & this Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Matthew Beaumont The Central Anarchist Council is a secret society sworn to destroy the world The council is governed by seven men who hide their identities behind the names of the days of the week Yet one of their number
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- is not the revolutionary he claims to be but a Scotland Yard detective named Gabriel Syme sworn to infiltrate the organisation & bring the architects of chaos to justice But when he discovers another undercover policeman on the Council Syme begins to question his role in their operations & as a desperate chase across Europe begins his confusion grows as well as his confidence in his ability to outwit his enemies unravelling the mysteries of human behaviour & belief in a thrilling contest of wits But he has still to face the greatest terror that the Council has a man named Sunday whose true nature is worse than Syme could ever have imagined In his introduction Matthew Beaumont examines the book's themes of identity & confrontation & explores its intriguing title This edition also contains a chronology notes & suggested further reading GK Chesterton (1874-1938) attended the Slade School of Art where he appears to have suffered a nervous breakdown before turning his hand to journalism A prolific writer throughout his life his best-known books include The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922) & the Father Brown stories Chesterton converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922 & died in 1938 If you enjoyed The Man Who Was Thursday you might enjoy Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent also available in Penguin Classics' The most thrilling book I have ever read' Kingsley Amis author of Lucky Jim

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On the side of a mountain in Sweden six bodies have been found Skeletons more precisely These bodies were buried a long time ago & for Sebastian Bergman that just makes the investigation into who they are who killed them & why even more complex Because Bergman has of course found himself on the investigating team At first it was a chance to escape his ex-girlfriend & spend some time with his daughter Vanja An opportunity to try & build a relationship with her before it's too late But soon he finds that he's more involved than he would ever want to be & his personal life is horribly disastrously tangled up in it all ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A laconic chain-smoking barber blackmails his wife&s boss & lover for money to invest in dry cleaning but his plan goes terribly wrong ...

A brilliant new translation of one of Simenon's best loved masterpieces'A certain furtive almost shameful emotion disturbed him whenever he saw a train go by a night train especially its blinds drawn down on the mystery of its passengers' Kees Popinga is a respectable Dutch citizen & family man Then he discovers that his boss has bankrupted the shipping firm he works for
- & something snaps Kees used to watch the trains go by to exciting destinations Now on some dark impulse he boards one at random & begins a new life of recklessness & violence This chilling portrayal of a man who breaks from society & goes on the run asks who we are & what we are capable of ' Classic Simenon extraordinary in its evocative power' Independent' What emerges is the bare human animal' John Gray' Read him at your peril avoid him at your loss' Sunday Times
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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 Two British soldiers in India decide to resign from the Army & set themselves up as deities in Kafiristan--a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander Interactive menu Scene access Actors Michael Caine Sean Connery Christopher Plummer Saeed Jaffrey Shakira Caine Doghmi Larbi Jack May Karroom Ben Bouih Mohammad Shamsi Albert Moses Paul Antrim Graham Acres The Blue Dancers of Goulamine Nadia Atbib & Yvonne Ocampo Director John Huston Certificate PGYear 1975 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (10) Mono Additional Languages French ; Spanish ; German ; Italian Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; Arabic ; Czech ; Danish ; Dutch ; English ; Finnish ; French ; German ; Greek ; Hebrew ; Hindi ; Hungarian ; Italian ; Norwegian ; Polish ; Portugese ; Spanish ; Swedish Closed Captions Yes Duration 2 hours & 4 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
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When Arthur Conan Doyle was a lonely 7-year-old schoolboy at pre-prep Newington Academy in Edinburgh a French emigre named Eugene Chantrelle was engaged there to teach Modern Languages A few years later Chantrelle would be hanged for the particularly grisly murder of his wife marking the beginning of Conan Doyle's own association with some of the bloodiest crimes of the Victorian & Edwardian eras This early link between actual crime & the greatest detective story writer of all time is one of many Conan Doyle would also go on to play a leading role in the notorious case of the young Anglo-Indian lawyer George Edalji convicted & imprisoned as the mad ripper' who supposedly prowled the fields around his Staffordshire home by night looking for animals to mutilate; & the equally chilling story of Oscar Slater & his alleged murder of an elderly spinster as she sat in her Glasgow home one winter's night in 1908 a crime with a spectacular denouement 18 years later Using freshly available evidence & eyewitness testimony Christopher Sandford follows these links & draws out the connections between Conan Doyle's literary output & factual criminality a pattern that will enthral & surprise the legions of Sherlock Holmes fans In a sense Conan Doyle wanted to be Sherlock
- to be a man who could bring order & justice to a terrible world
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The first collection of short stories from one of Britain's finest novelists & critics A nameless man who has fallen out of love with life refuses to get out of bed with unexpected consequences A sociologist recalls how he learned his first & formative lesson about the oppressive power of capitalism selling newspapers & magazines up & down the platforms of Waterloo station Some years before the era of the Pill & the Permissive Society four university friends travel to the Mediterranean for their first holiday together where the climate is sultry & sex is on everyone's mind & a strong-willed young woman defies adverse circumstances to pursue the perfect wedding at all costs These are some of the characters that populate David Lodge's shrewd funny & delightfully entertaining short stories collected here for the very first time What prompted their publication in this form is a short story in itself told by the author in his Foreword LONGLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2017 ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Secret agent James Bond (Roger Moore) travels to the Far East to hunt for hired assassin Scaramanga (Christopher Lee) who appears to have Bond in his sights However it soon transpires that Scaramanga is really after a missing scientist the creator of a pocket-sized solar converter Bond & agent Mary Goodnight (Britt Ekland) race to the rescue ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Triple bill of Sergio Leone Westerns starring Clint Eastwood as the Man With No Name In &A Fistful of Dollars& (1964) the laconic gunslinger (Eastwood) makes a financial killing by playing two feuding families off each other in a small southwestern town & For a Few Dollars More& (1965) sees him reluctantly joining forces with bounty hunter Colonel Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef) to battle psychotic bandit El Indio (Gian Maria Volonte) & his gang of outlaws In & The Good the Bad & the Ugly& (1966) set during the American Civil War the paths of three loners
- Joe (Eastwood) Tuco (Eli Wallach) & Setenza (Van Cleef)
- cross as they search for the grave of Bill Carson home to a hidden fortune As the war intensifies the treasure seekers become drawn into a battle that dwarfs their own mercenary pursuits Actors Clint Eastwood Gian Maria Volonte Marianne Koch Wolfgang Lukschy S Rupp Directors Sergio Leone Producers Giorgio Papi Arrigo Colombo Alberto Grimaldi Language English Number of discs 3

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