T E Carhart an American living in Paris is intrigued by a piano repair shop hidden down a street near his apartment When he finally gains admittance to the secretive world of the atelier he finds himself in an enormous glass-roofed workshop filled with dozens of pianos His love affair with this most magical of instruments & its music is reawakened Packed with delicate cameos of Parisians & reflections on how pianos work & their glorious history The Piano Shop on the Left Bank is an atmospheric & absorbing journey to an older way of life ...

Erika Kohut teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory by day By night she trawls the city's porn shows while her mother whom she loves & hates in equal measure waits up for her Into this emotional pressure-cooker bounds music student & ladies' man Walter Klemmer With Walter as her student Erika spirals out of control consumed by the ecstasy of self-destruction A haunting tale of morbid voyeurism & masochism The Piano Teacher first published in 1983 is Elfreide Jelinek's Masterpiece Jelinek was awarded the Nobel Prize For Literature in 2004 for her 'musical flow of voices & counter-voices in novels & plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's cliches & their subjugating power The Piano Teacher was adapted into an internationally successful film by Michael Haneke which won three major prizes at Cannes including the Grand Prize & Best Actress for Isabelle Huppert ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The Piano Teacher is a powerful & controversial drama from award-winning Austrian film-maker Michael Haneke (Funny Games Code Unknown) Isabelle Huppert gives a performance of astounding emotional intensity as Erika Kohut a repressed woman in her late thirties who teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory & lives with her tyrannical mother (Annie Girardot) with whom she has a volatile love-hate relationship But when one of Erika&s students the handsome & assured Walter Klemmer (Benoit Magimel) attempts to seduce her the barriers that she has carefully erected around her claustrophobic world are shattered unleashing a previously inhibited extreme & uncontrollable desire Actors Isabelle Huppert Annie Girardot Benoit Magimel & Susanne Lothar Director Michael Haneke Certificate 18 years & over Year 2001 Screen Widescreen Languages French
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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 A young chancer (Robert Downey Jnr) picks up more than he bargained for when he meets a girl (Molly Ringwald) whose father is a compulsive gambler & has borrowed money from the Mafia ...

With an Introduction & Notes by David Ellis University of Kent at Canterbury With Illustrations by RSeymour RW Buss & Hablot K Browne (Phiz) The Pickwick Papers is Dickens' first novel & widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English Originally serialised in monthly instalments it quickly became a huge popular success with sales reaching 40000 by the final part In the century & a half since its first appearance the characters of Mr Pickwick Sam Weller & the whole of the Pickwickian crew have entered the consciousness of all who love English literature in general & the works of Dickens in particular ...

Explore the world by looking not only at borders mountains rivers seas & oceans but by discovering the natural wonders of the world historical artefacts amazing animals fascinating cultures & much much more With stunning illustrations from the incredible Jill Calder The Picture Atlas is quite unlike anything you've seen before From the freezing Arctic Circle with its powerful orca whales to the amazing Sydney Opera House & the Great Barrier Reef learn explore & be amazed by the wonders of the world Bursting full of beautiful artwork informative maps & astounding facts take a trip around the world like you've never seen it before ...

Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics' How sad it is! I shall grow old & horrid & dreadful But this picture will remain always young If it was only the other way!' Wilde's first & only published novel recounts the story of handsome Dorian Gray who upon having his portrait painted desires that it will age & grow ugly while he may remain eternally beautiful The painting which reflects each of Gray's sins & transgressions in its hideousness haunts him until it finally becomes unbearable In this dark tale of duplicity & mortality Wilde creates a world where art & reality collide ...

Dorian Gray is young arrogant & devastatingly handsome Confronted by his beauty in the form of a portrait & struck by the terrible realization that he will age Dorian wishes to retain his charms forever & finds his desire granted He abandons himself to a life of hedonism vice & murder yet his face remains unmarked by his evil But hidden in his attic the painting ages & corrupts & one day Dorian must stand face to face with the man he has become A perfect depiction of fin-de-siecle decadence Oscar Wilde's only novel highlights the tension between the polished surface & murky depths of Victorian high society This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray features an afterword by the playwright & actor Peter Harness Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much loved classic titles Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love & treasure ...

Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward who is charmed by his looks But when Sir Henry Wotton visits & seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret that all the marks of age will now be reflected in the portrait rather than on Dorian's own face The stage is now set for a masterful tale about appearance reality art life truth fiction & the ultimate burden of conscience ...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable & collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth & beauty Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence The novel was a succes de scandale & the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895 It has lost none of its power to fascinate & disturb ...