' One ought to choose something very deliberately & be faithful to that' Isabel Archer is a young intelligent & spirited American girl determined to relish her first experience of Europe She rejects two eligible suitors in her fervent commitment to liberty & independence declaring that she will never marry Thanks to the generosity of her devoted cousin Ralph she is free to make her own choice about her destiny Yet in the intoxicating worlds of Paris Florence & Rome her fond illusions of self-reliance are twisted by the machinations of her friends & apparent allies What had seemed to be a vista of infinite promise steadily closes around her & becomes instead a 'house of suffocation' Considered by many as one of the finest novels in the English language this is Henry James's most poised achievement written at the height of his fame in 1881 It is at once a dramatic Victorian tale of betrayal & a wholly modern psychological study of a woman caught in a web of relations she only comes to understand too late This edition reproduces the revised New York Edition with James's own Preface 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 ...

Regarded by many as Henry James's finest work & a lucid tragedy exploring the distance between money & happiness The Portrait of a Lady contains an introduction by Philip Horne in Penguin Classics When Isabel Archer a beautiful spirited American is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett it is expected that she will soon marry But Isabel resolved to enjoy the freedom that her fortune has opened up & to determine her own fate does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors Then she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond Charming & cultivated Osmond sees Isabel as a rich prize waiting to be taken Beneath his veneer of civilized behaviour Isabel discovers cruelty & a stifling darkness In this portrait of a 'young woman affronting her destiny' Henry James created one of his most magnificent heroines & a story of intense poignancy This edition of The Portrait of a Lady based on the earliest published copy of the novel is the version read first & loved by most readers in James's lifetime It also contains a chronology further reading notes & an introduction by Philip Horne Henry James (1843-1916) son of a prominent theologian & brother to the philosopher William James was one of the most celebrated novelists of the fin-de-siecle In addition to many short stories plays books of criticism biography & autobiography & much travel writing he wrote some twenty novels His novella Daisy Miller (1878) established him as a literary figure on both sides of the Atlantic & his other novels in Penguin Classics include Washington Square (1880) The Portrait of a Lady (1881) The Awkward Age (1899) The Wings of the Dove (1902) The Ambassadors (1903) & The Golden Bowl (1904) If you enjoyed The Portrait of a Lady you might like Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence also available in Penguin Classics' Matchless a grave description of one of life's great traumas the passage from innocence to experience' Anita Brookner ...

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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 a true story The Possession is the terrifying tale of how one family must unite in order to survive the wrath of an unspeakable evil Clyde & Stephanie Brenek see little cause for alarm when their youngest daughter Em becomes oddly obsessed with an antique wooden box But as Em&s behaviour becomes increasingly erratic the couple fears the presence of a malevolent force in their midst They discover that the box was built to contain a Dibbuk a dislocated spirit that inhabits & ultimately devours its human host Starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Watchmen) & Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer) Directed by Ole Bornedal (Nightwatch) & produced by horror master Sam Raimi (Spider-Man Drag Me To Hell The Evil Dead) Actors Jeffrey Dean Morgan Kyra Sedgwick Quinn Lord Grant Show Natasha Calis Madison Davenport Erin Simms John Cassini Rob La Belle Nana Gbewonyo Jim Thorburn Matisyahu Graeme Duffy Kyle Cornell & James O& Sullivan Director Ole Bornedal Certificate 15 years & over Year 2012 Languages English ...

The first time I meet Patrick Braddock I'm wearing his wife's lipstick' Edie works at the Elysian Society channelling the dead for clients desperate for a few last moments with their loved ones She is professional & discreet one of the best in the team But everything changes when Patrick a distraught husband comes to look for traces of his drowned wife in Edie The more time that Edie spends as the glamorous enigmatic Sylvia the closer she comes to falling in love with Patrick & the more mysterious the circumstances around Sylvia's death start to seem ...

In the idyllic ski resort of Breckenridge there's trouble in paradise for Sarah St John Her twenty-two year old son Cully has been killed in an avalanche & she is trying to pick up the pieces of her life All Sarah wants is to be left alone in her grief but everyone seems to want something from her Her father a retiree who has become addicted to the shopping channel has moved into her basement Her best friend is juggling a messy divorce & a new found habit of smoking pot & then there's Cully's father whose sudden reemergence in Sarah's life stirs a cauldron of emotions Just as Sarah is ready to face the world a girl called Kit appears on her doorstep & Sarah is confronted with the hardest decision yet Told in Kaui Hart Hemmings' unsentimental & refreshingly wry style this is a novel about what we will risk to keep our loved ones close
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What if no one knows the truth about you? It's been thirteen years since Kaylee's infamous birth mother Crystal received a life sentence for killing Kaylee's little brother in a fit of rage Once the centre of a cult-following for her apparent telekinetic powers nowadays nobody's heard of Crystal Until now when a reporter shows up at Kaylee's house & turns her life upside down offering Kaylee the chance to be part of a high-profile podcast investigating claims that Crystal truly did have supernatural mind powers But these questions lead to disturbing answers as Kaylee is forced to examine her own increasingly strange life & make sense of certain dark & troubling coincidences Unusual & gripping The Possible will twist the reader round & round as it hurtles towards a sensational climax For lovers of We Were Liars Patrick Ness & Derren Brown ...