In 1716 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's husband Edward Montagu was appointed British ambassador to the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire Montagu accompanied her husband to Turkey & wrote an extraordinary series of letters that recorded her experiences as a traveller & her impressions of Ottoman culture & society 300 pages Montagu Lady Mary Wortley ...

Ancient healer modern medicine Considered to be one of nature's most powerful anti-inflammatory ingredients turmeric is a powerful medicine that has long been used in the Chinese & Indian systems of medicine as an anti-inflammatory agent to treat a wide variety of conditions including digestion problems jaundice menstrual difficulties toothache bruises chest pain & colic Turmeric has been harvested for over 5000 years in its native Indonesia & is a key ingredient in many dishes & medicinal remedies throughout the region It is now rising quickly in popularity everywhere in the world as wellness seekers of all ages discover the health properties of this incredible food Scientific studies now show that turmeric contains anti-cancer properties may be helpful with inflammatory bowel disease Chrohn's rheumatoid arthritis help with enhanced liver function heart health may help to lower cholesterol & be protective against Alzheimer's disease Turmeric becomes more active either when cooked or combined with other specific ingredients such as ginger & black pepper Whether in root or powder form turmeric can be used in juices smoothies infusions soups curries pulses stews for roasting vegetables adding to hummus yoghurt & marinades for fish meat or tofu All the health benefits how to use turmeric & 50 delicious recipes are included in this stunning cookbook ...

The exquisitely wrought & thrillingly gripping second novel set during the time of the Black Death from Minette Walters 464 pages Walters Minette ...

Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics The place with its grey sky & withered garlands its bared spaces & scattered dead leaves was like a theatre after the performance-all strewn with crumpled playbills' Revered as one of the greatest ghost stories ever told James's The Turn of the Screw is an eerie Victorian masterpiece When an inexperienced governess goes to work at Bly a country house in Essex to look after a young boy Miles & his sister Flora all manner of strange events begin to occur The governess spots a ghostly man & woman around the grounds & is told by the housekeeper that the valet & previous governess haunt the house It soon becomes clear that the children are inexplicably connected to these ghosts in some way & the young governess struggles to protect the children although from exactly what she is not sure Exploring the psychological & sexual fears of an era this ambiguous suspenseful & anxiety-inspiring novella remains one of Henry James's most well-known tales ...

With an Introduction & Notes by Dr Claire Seymour University of Kent at Canterbury The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story for which James is most remembered Set in a country house it is a chilling tale of the supernatural told by a master of the genre The Aspern Papers is a tale of Americans in Europe a theme in which Henry James is at his most assured & accomplished The author cleverly evokes the drama of comedie humaine against the settings of a Venetian palace ...

A young inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles & Flora two small children abandoned by their uncle at his grand country house She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower & his face at the window It is Peter Quint the master's dissolute valet & he has come for little Miles But Peter Quint is dead Like the other tales collected here
- ' Sir Edmund Orme' ' Owen Wingrave' & ' The Friends of the Friends'
- ' The Turn of the Screw' is to all immediate appearances a ghost story But are the appearances what they seem? Is what appears to the governess a ghost or a hallucination? Who else sees what she sees? The reader may wonder whether the children are victims of corruption from beyond the grave or victims of the governess's 'infernal imagination' which torments but also entrals her? ' The Turn of the Screw' is probably the most famous certainly the most eerily equivocal of all ghostly tales Is it a subtle self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture filled with echoes of sexual & social unease? Or is it simply 'the most hopelessly evil story that we have ever read'? The texts are those of the New York Edition with a new Introduction & Notes 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

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A chilling ghost story wrought with tantalising ambiguity Henry James's The Turn of the Screw is edited with an introduction & notes by David Bromwich in Penguin Classics In what Henry James called a 'trap for the unwary' The Turn of the Screw tells of a nameless young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans Miles & Flora Unsettled by a dark foreboding of menace within the house she soon comes to believe that something malevolent is stalking the children in her care But is the threat to her young charges really a malign & ghostly presence or something else entirely? The Turn of the Screw is James's great masterpiece of haunting atmosphere & unbearable tension & has influenced subsequent ghost stories & films such as The Innocents starring Deborah Kerr & The Others starring Nicole Kidman This Penguin Classics edition contains a chronology further reading notes & an introduction by David Bromwich examining the dark ambiguity of James's work & the inseparability of narrative from point-of-view 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 Turn of the Screw you might like Edgar Allen Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher also available in Penguin Classics'A most wonderful lurid poisonous little tale' Oscar Wilde ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Oscar-nominated drama starring Shirley Mac Laine & Anne Bancroft As young dancers they were best friends & fierce rivals Deedee (Mac Laine) left the stage for marriage & motherhood while Emma (Bancroft) would become an international ballet icon When Deedee&s teenage daughter (Leslie Browne) is invited to join Emma&s dance company & begins an affair with a young Russian star (Mikhail Baryshnikov) the two women are forced to confront the choices they&ve made the resentments they&ve hidden & the emotional truths they must face ...

Erykah Macdonald has a nice life
- the kind of life you're meant to want But on her twentieth wedding anniversary she's about to
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A rare discovery in the world of fairy tales
- now for the first time in English With this volume the holy trinity of fairy tales
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