Harper Collins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved essential classics Melanctha Herbert was always seeking rest & quiet & always she could only find new ways to be in trouble' In Bridgepoint USA people get trapped into lives they didn't choose without means of escape Anna a sweet but intimidating German housemaid; Melanctha a troubled young woman whose passion threatens to tear her apart; & Lena a timid girl bullied into work & marriage In this ground-breaking collection Stein depicts the interior lives of these women struggling to find happiness in an unkind world Gertrude Stein was a pioneering figurehead of Modernism & a mentor to writers like Ernest Hemingway & F Scott Fitzgerald Written in 1909 Three Lives captures the artistic styles of Picasso Cezanne & Matisse & uses them to create heart-breaking portraits of working-class women ...

Lope de Vega (1562-1635) widely regarded as the architect of the drama of the Spanish Golden Age was known by his contemporaries as the 'monster of Nature' on account of his creativity as a playwright Claiming to have written more than a thousand plays he created plots & characters notable for their energy inventiveness & dramatic power & which in contrast to French classical drama combine the serious & the comic in their desire to imitate life Fuente Ovejuna based on Spanish history & revealing how tyranny leads to rebelliion is perhaps his best-known play The Knight from Olmedo is a moving dramatization of impetuous & youthful passion which ends in death Punishment without Revenge Lope's most powerful tragedy centres on the illicit relationship of a young wife with her stepson & the revenge of a dishonoured husband These three plays grouped here in translations which are faithful to the original Spanish vivid & intended for performance embody the very best of Lope's dramatic art 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 ...

Two features & Three Men & A Baby& tells of three carefree & self indulgent bachelors who find their designer lives turned upside down with the arrival of a baby girl on their penthouse doorstep Chaos ensues as they all slowly come to terms with fatherhood & the nightmare of feeding bathing & clothing the tiny cherub & Three Men & A Little Baby& is the sequel & follows the three fathers to England to find five-year-old Mary & her mother ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Three carefree & self indulgent bachelors find their designer lives turned upside down with the arrival of a baby girl on their penthouse doorstep Chaos ensues as they all slowly come to terms with fatherhood & the nightmare of feeding bathing & clothing the tiny cherub ...

A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889 Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat



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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 Laurence Harvey David Tomlinson & Jimmy Edwards star in Ken Annakin&s adaptation of the Jerome K Jerome novel Three Englishmen decide it would be fun to go on a boating holiday along the Thames for a fortnight However these gents& boating skills are notable only for their absence which leads to all kinds of riverbound mayhem especially when they meet up with the lovely ladies Sophie Primrose & Bluebell ...

Three Men on a Diet is the hilarious & brutally honest story of three mighty men with nothing to gain & so much to lose a diet book with a difference 224 pages Courtauld George ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Three miles north of Molkom hidden deep in the lakeside forests of Sweden lies Angsbacka a 21st Century playground for adults Once a year their gates open to a thousand international participants placed in & Sharing Groups& at random A Swedish celebrity a Californian hippy a Finnish grandmother & a back-packing Australian rugby coach who stumbled on the wrong party are amongst the group that take us on an unforgettably quirky two-week emotional roller-coaster Firewalking Shamanism Tantric Sex & myriad other physical psychological & esoteric experiences guide our unlikely heroes towards enlightenment love loathing & themselves Will they ever be the same again? ...

It is 1988 & Florida-based FBI agent Joe Navarro divides his time between SWAT assignments flying air reconnaissance & working counter-intelligence A body-language expert with an uncanny ability to "read" those he interrogates Navarro is known as super-intense
- an agent whose work ethic quickly burns out partners He craves an assignment that will get him noticed by the FBI top brass but then again as he'll come to learn be careful what you wish for It was while on a routine assignment
- interviewing a person of interest' a former US soldier named Rod Ramsay with links to another soldier Clyde Conrad recently arrested in Germany as a traitor
- that Navarro thought he smelled a rat He noticed a tic in Ramsay's hand when Conrad's name was mentioned Not a lot to go on but enough for Navarro to insist that an investigation be opened What followed was extraordinary
- & unique in the annals of espionage detection
- a game of cat-&-mouse played at the highest level on one side an FBI agent who must not reveal that he suspects his target; on the other a traitor a seller of his country's secrets whose weakness is the thrill he gets from sparring with his inquisitor To prise from Ramsay the full extent of the damage he had wrought Navarro had to pre-choreograph every interview because Ramsay was exceptionally intelligent with the second highest IQ ever recorded by the US Army It would become an interrogation that literally pitted genius against genius
- a battle of wits fought against one of the most turbulent periods of the 20th century
- the demise & eventual collapse of the Eastern Bloc & the Soviet Union
- & the very real possibility that Russia's leaders in a last desperate bid to alter history's trajectory might engage in all-out war As Navarro was to learn over the course of nearly fifty exhausting & mind-bending interviews & interrogations Ramsay had handed the Soviets the knowledge needed to destroy America & its western allies In Three Minutes to Doomsday Joe Navarro tells this extraordinary story for the first time
- a story of the exposure & breaking of one of the most damaging espionage rings in US history whose treachery threatened the entire world








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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan&s film tells the story of a family blown apart by lies & non-communication When Servet (Ercan Kesal) a politician involved in a car accident asks his driver Eyup (Yavoz Bingol) to take the rap
- a short jail sentence
- in return for a financial reward the driver&s wife Hacer (Hatice Aslan) & teenage son Ismail (Ritaf Sungar) are inevitably affected by Eyup&s decision to take the money Wishing to help her son Hacer approaches Servet for an advance & soon gets more involved with him than she bargained for Before long all four characters find themselves trapped in a tangled web of guilt & deceit Age Rating 15

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