Woman to man is either a god or a wolf John Webster's first independent play The White Devil originally performed in 1612 centres on the beautiful Vittoria Corombona & her lover Duke Brachiano whose passionate adulterous affair unleashes the powerful revenge of their enemies While clearly guilty of lust & murder these unsavoury characters become startlingly heroic under pressure challenging both conventional moral judgments & oppressive social forces This revised student edition contains a lengthy new Introduction with background on the author date & sources theme critical interpretation & stage history The Introduction discusses Webster's radical experimentation with tragic modes his interest in the heroic potential of women & evaluates the handling of both in recent stage productions ...

Packed full of analysis & interpretation historical background discussions & commentaries York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the text you re studying whether it s poetry a play or a novel You ll learn all about the historical context of the piece; find detailed discussions of key passages & characters; learn interesting facts about the text; & discover structures patterns & themes that you may never have known existed In the Advanced Notes specific sections on critical thinking & advice on how to read critically yourself enable you to engage with the text in new & different ways Full glossaries self-test questions & suggested reading lists will help you fully prepare for your exam while internet links & references to film TV theatre & the arts combine to fully immerse you in your chosen text York Notes offer an exciting & accessible key to your text enabling you to develop your ideas & transform your studies! ...

The day the fox came things began to change for Sol Lost alone & far away from home Sol feels a deep connection with the little Arctic fox he discovers down at the Seattle docks
- he too feels lost in the big city Dad is always busy working & Sol misses the grandparents they have left behind So Sol decides to take the little fox back home reuniting his own family in the process
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The first of Lauren St John's heartwarming White Giraffe series featuring the adventures of a young orphan girl & a magical white giraffe in exotic Africa When she is eleven years old Martine is orphaned & sent to live with her grandmother on a game reserve in South Africa Her grandmother seems strangely unwelcoming & Martine has a difficult time settling in at her new school where she is conspicuously an outsider But she has an ally in Tendai
- one of the keepers on the reserve from whom she learns the lore & survival techniques of the bush & in Grace
- who instantly senses there is something special about Martine There are secrets about Sawubona (the reserve) just waiting to be revealed & rumours too about a fabled white giraffe
- a trophy for hunters everywhere One night Martine lonely & feeling slightly rebellious too looks out of her window & see a young albino giraffe
- silver tinged with cinnamon in the moonlight This is the beginning of her mysterious & magical adventures
- her discovery of her gift of healing & a secret valley that she travels to with the giraffe where she'll find clues about her past & future Above all it's is a heart-warming story full of charm & atmosphere & Martine's sheer delight in her giraffe friend & the fantastic landscape which is theirs to explore




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The fourth instalment in Lauren St John's heartwarming White Giraffe series in which Martine must travel to Namibia to save an elephant & the home she has come to love It's the first day of the December school holidays & Martine has lots of fun planned for the next few weeks not least spending time with Jemmy her beloved white giraffe & her best friend Ben But her plans for a peaceful holiday are soon shattered when a sinister man informs Martine & her grandmother that Sabuwona is about to be repossessed The nature reserve & everything in it will no longer belong to them Martine is determined to save the home she's grown to love When Grace has a vision about a unique herd of Namibian elephants she knows she must travel to Namibia to learn their secrets This could be the answer to all their troubles The fourth thrilling African adventure written with all the zest & skill that has endeared so many readers to THE WHITE GIRAFFE DOLPHIN SONG & THE LAST LEOPARD ...

A beautifully written coming-of-age novel from an acclaimed literary voice A lost boy A dead girl & one who is left behind A village full of whispers & secrets When the white hare appears magical & fleet in the silvery moonlight she leads them all into a legend a chase But who is the hunter & who the hunted? ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Based on the critically acclaimed award-winning novel by György Dragomán The White King set in a fictitious dictatorship can be described as 1984 meets Empire of the Sun with its startling & all- too-timely exploration of what the world would & could look like Djata is a 12-year-old boy coming to grips with his father&s imprisonment by the totalitarian state he calls home Preyed upon by the secret police & venal dignitaries Djata & his mother are forced to navigate a world of propaganda abuse & vicious gangs making them risk everything to reunite their family The White King stars Jonathan Pryce (Game of Thrones) Agyness Deyn (Sunset Song) Greta Scacchi (War & Peace) & Oacute;lafur Darri & Oacute;lafsson (The BFG) Fiona Shaw (Harry Potter) & in an vocal cameo Olivia Williams (Maps to the Stars) Bonus materials reversible cover Festival Featurette & World Of Homeland ...

Machen's weird tales of the creepy & fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics With an introduction from ST Joshi editor of American Supernatural Tales The White People & Other Weird Stories is the perfect introduction to the father of weird fiction The title story The White People is an exercise in the bizarre leaving the reader disoriented & on edge From the first page Machen turns even fundamental truths upside-down as his character Ambrose explains there have been those who have sounded the very depths of sin who all their lives have never done an 'ill deed' setting the stage for a tale entirely without logic ...

The haunting story of the mother of the Tudors Elizabeth of York wife to Henry VII Beautiful eldest daughter of Edward IV & Elizabeth Woodville
- the White Queen
- the young princess Elizabeth faces a conflict of loyalties between the red rose & the white Forced into marriage with Henry VII she must reconcile her slowly growing love for him with her loyalty to the House of York & choose between her mother's rebellion & her husband's tyranny Then she has to meet the Pretender whose claim denies the House of Tudor itself

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Internationally bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings the tumult & intrigue of The Wars of the Roses to vivid life through the women of the House of Lancaster & the House of York beginning with the story of Elizabeth Woodville the White Queen A woman who won the love of a king & ascended to royalty by virtue of her beauty Elizabeth fought tenaciously for the success of her family -- her daughter who would one day unite the warring dynasties & her two sons whose eventual fate has confounded historians for centuries the Princes in the Tower An active player in the power struggles that surrounded her she made hard & courageous choices always trying to protect those whom she loved Informed by impeccable research & framed by her inimitable storytelling skills Philippa Gregory gives an unforgettable voice to an extraordinary woman at the heart of a devastating conflict ...