Selected by The Times as a History Book of the Year 2017 & The Tablet as a Book of the Year 2017 The voyage of the Mayflower & the founding of Plymouth Colony is one of the seminal events in world history But the poorly-equipped group of English Puritans who ventured across the Atlantic in the early autumn of 1620 had no sense they would pass into legend They had eighty casks of butter & two dogs but no cattle for milk meat or ploughing They were ill-prepared for the brutal journey & the new land that few of them could comprehend But the Mayflower story did not end with these Pilgrims' arrival on the coast of New England or their first uncertain years as settlers Rebecca Fraser traces two generations of one ordinary family & their extraordinary response to the challenges of life in America Edward Winslow an apprentice printer born in Worcestershire fled England & then Holland for a life of religious freedom & opportunity Despite the intense physical trials of settlement he found America exotic enticing & endlessly interesting He built a home & a family & his remarkable friendship with King Massassoit Chief of the Wampanoags is part of the legend of Thanksgiving Yet fifty years later Edward's son Josiah was commanding the New England militias against Massassoit's son in King Philip's War The Mayflower Generation is an intensely human portrait of the Winslow family written with the pace of an epic Rebecca Fraser details domestic life in the seventeenth century the histories of brave & vocal Puritan women & the contradictions between generations as fathers & sons made the painful decisions which determined their future in America ...

With the suspense of JEFFERY DEAVER the tension of THOMAS HARRIS & the gruesomeness of M J ARLIDGE The Mayfly is a breathtaking debut that will have you leaving your lights on all night A mutilated body discovered in the woods A murderous plan conceived in the past A reckoning seventy years in the making When lawyer Charlie Priest is attacked in his own home by a man searching for information he claims Priest has he is drawn into a web of corruption that has its roots in the last desperate days of World War Two When his attacker is found murdered the next day Priest becomes a suspect & the only way to clear his name is to find out about the mysterious House of Mayfly
- a secret society that people will kill for As Priest races to uncover the truth can he prevent history from repeating itself?
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The Penguin English Library Edition of The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy' Here
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It has been collated with the Mellstock Edition of 1920 for which Hardy submitted final corrections " Backgrounds & Contexts" provides new & invaluable source material on Victorian Dorset & in particular Dorchester Hardy's native home & the town upon which Casterbridge is based Included are six of Hardy's nonfiction writings notably excerpts from his essay " The Dorsetshire Laboure" (1883) in which he frankly comments on the social changes he has witnessed in the county Hardy's Wessex is further examined in an essay by Michael Millgate by maps of Casterbridge & Wessex & by a key to local place names Christine Winfield discusses the novel's manuscript & its complicated history " Criticism" collects seventeen wide-ranging assessments of the novel--six new to the Second Edition--from both contemporary & modern critics including Virginia Woolf Albert J Guerard Julian Moynahan John Paterson Michael Millgate Irving Howe J Hillis Miller Ian Gregor Elaine Showalter George Levine William Greenslade H M Daleski & Suzanne Keen A Chronology & Selected Bibliography are also included ...

A haunting study of guilt & lost love in Penguin Classics Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge is edited with an introduction & notes by Keith Wilson In a fit of drunken anger Michael Henchard sells his wife & baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair Over the course of the following years he manages to establish himself as a respected & prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past & a personality prone to self-destructive pride & temper Subtitled 'A Story of a Man of Character' Hardy's powerful & sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town This edition

Includes:: an introduction chronology of Hardy's life & works the illustrations for the original serial issue place names maps glossary full explanatory notes as well as Hardy's prefaces to the 1895 & 1912 editions Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) born Higher Brockhampton near Dorchester originally trained as an architect before earning his living as a writer Though he saw himself primarily as a poet Hardy was the author of some of the late eighteenth century's major novels The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) Tess of the D' Urbervilles (1891) Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) & Jude the Obscure (1895) Amidst the controversy caused by Jude the Obscure he turned to the poetry he had been writing all his life In the next thirty years he published over nine hundred poems & his epic drama in verse The Dynasts If you enjoyed The Mayor of Casterbridge you might like George Eliot's Silas Marner also available in Penguin Classics' The greatest tragic writer among the English novelists' Virginia Woolf' Visceral passionate anti-hypocrisy anti-repression Hardy reaches into our wildest recesses' Evening Standard

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Five friends break into a closed corn maze in the middle of the night & decide to play a harmless game of tag Little do they know that a psychopathic killer has decided to play along When the body of the maze owner is found they realize that something is terribly wrong As they race to find the entrance of the maze the murderer cleverly forces them to follow the path that he wants After succumbing to hours of torture will anyone make it out of the mazealive? ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Thomas (Dylan O& Brien) a teenager arrives in a glade at the center of a giant labyrinth Like the other youths dumped there before him he has no memory of his previous life Thomas quickly becomes part of the group & soon after demonstrates a unique perspective that scores him a promotion to Runner status -- those who patrol the always-changing maze to find an escape route Together with Teresa (Kaya Scodelario) the only female Thomas tries to convince his cohorts that he knows a way out ...