What began as another lovely evening in Paris for best buddies Porthos Athos Aramis & D&artagnan has become a night to remember Count Xavier & his sinister sidekick Orsini have kidnapped France&s most famous heroes & now they are plotting to take over the crown It&s up to Porthos to save the Musketeers in this riveting run n& jump romp appropriate for adventurers of all ages Classic platform action in groundbreaking cartoon 3D More than 200 areas & much more Explore dungeons castles forests & much more ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The Three Musketeers return in this new swashbuckling CGI animated all animal feature film based on the timeless story by Alexandre Dumas The story follows the adventures of the brave musketeers Porthos Aramis & Athos & of D& Artagnan who dreams of becoming a Musketeer himself ...

Satisfying both as a story & as an exploration of story The Three Pigs takes visual narrative to a new level When the wolf comes a-knocking & a-puffing he blows the pigs right out of the tale & into a whole new imaginative landscape where they begin a freewheeling adventure as they wander-and fly-through other stories encountering a dragon & a cat with a fiddle among others This familiar tale will never be the same old story again ...

In the overcrowded world & cramped space colonies of the late twenty-first century tedium can be endured through the use of the drug Can-D which enables the user to inhabit a shared illusory world But when industrialist Palmer Eldritch returns from an interstellar trip he brings with him a new drug Chew-Z which is far more potent than Can-D But could the permanent state of drugged illusion it induces be part of something much more sinister? ...

Left on the doorstep of an orphanage run by nuns three newborn knuckleheads grow up to be finger-poking nyuk-nyuking janitors named Larry (Sean Hayes) Curly (Will Sasso) & Moe (Chris Diamantopoulos) When they learn that financial problems will soon force the only home they&ve ever known to close the trio sets out to raise 830000 in one month Out in the world for the very first time the three innocent bumblers become embroiled in a murder plot & find stardom on a TV reality show ...

Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy Sophocles' The Three Theban Plays are among the most enduring & timeless dramas ever written This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Robert Fagles with introductions & notes by Bernard Knox Collected here are Antigone Oedipus the King & Oedipus at Colonus in a translation by Robert Fagles which retains all of Sophocles' lucidity & power the cut & thrust of his dialogue his ironic edge the surge & majesty of his choruses & above all the agonies & triumphs of his characters Oedipus in exile searching for his identity desperately trying to avoid his fate seeking the truth of his origins & achieving immortality; his daughter Antigone defending her integrity & ideals to the death
- these heroic tragic figures have captivated theatregoers & readers since the fifth century BC It is Sophocles' characterisation of Oedipus that would in the nineteenth century inspire Sigmund Freud to a revolutionary conception of the human mind & the tragedies in this volume continue to move & inspire us to this day Sophocles (496-405 BC) was born at Colonus just outside Athens His long life spanned the rise & decline of the Athenian Empire; he was a friend of Pericles & though not an active politician he held several public offices both military & civil The leader of a literary circle & friend of Herodotus Sophocles wrote over a hundred plays drawing on a wide & varied range of themes & winning the City Dionysia eighteen times; though only seven of his tragedies have survived among them Antigone Oedipus Rex Ajax & Oedipus at Colonus If you enjoyed The Three Theban Plays you might like Aeschylus' The Oresteia also available in Penguin Classics'I know of no better English version' Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones Oxford University' The most impressive verse translations of Sophocles that have been made' Stephen Spender
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Long long ago a very special star appeared in the night sky It shone more brightly than all the other stars Three wise men called Melchior Caspar & Balthasar gazed at the star in wonder They had never seen anything like it before In this beautifully illustrated book for young children the three Kings decide to journey west following the star to a very special destination Loek Koopmans' retelling of one part of the Christmas story is full of life & character as well as mystery & wonder ...

A new title in the fantastic " First Reading" series aimed at children who are beginning to read Nat & Ned are poor & often hungry until Ned rescues a fairy Are all their troubles over for good? Developed in consultation with Alison Kelly who is a senior lecturer in education & an early reading specialist from Roehampton University A great value quality hardback with ribbon marker guaranteed to foster pride in book ownership ...

When Ben is granted three wishes he dreams of changing his life forever But you must always be careful what you wish for! A fantastical tale of love magic & a sausage specially written for children who are just learning to read & with stunning illustrations by Lorena Alvarez throughout 48 pages Full colour throughout Prentice Andrew ...

After a spate of apparent suicides among elite scientists nanotech engineer Wang Miao is asked to infiltrate a secretive cabal During his investigation Wang is inducted into a mysterious online game that is the key to humanity's place in the cosmos & the key to the extinction-level threat it now faces 448 pages Liu Cixin ...