Mr & Mrs Ramsay & their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye surrounded by family friends The novel's opening section teems with the noise complications bruised emotions joys & quiet tragedies of everyday family life that might go on forever But time passes bringing with it war & death & the summer home stands empty until one day many years later when the family return to make the long-postponed visit to the lighthouse One of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century To the Lighthouse is at once an intensely autobiographical & universally moving masterpiece ...

With an Introduction & Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury University of Reading This simple & haunting story captures the transcience of life & its surrounding emotions To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels It is based on her own early experiences & while it touches on childhood & children's perceptions & desires it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships marriage & the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War ...

A pioneering work of modernist fiction using her unique stream-of-consciousness technique to explore the inner lives of her characters Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse is widely regarded as one of the greatest artistic achievements of the twentieth century This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Stella Mc Nichol with an introduction & notes by Hermione Lee To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday & a meditation on marriage on parenthood & childhood on grief tyranny & bitterness For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland & they expect these summers will go on forever; but as the First World War looms the integrity of family & society will be fatally challenged With a psychologically introspective mode the use of memory reminiscence & shifting perspectives gives the novel an intimate poetic essence & at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Victorian & Edwardian literary values Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major 20th century author & essayist a key figure in literary history as a feminist & modernist & the centre of ' The Bloomsbury Group' an informal collective of artists & writers that exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture Between 1925 & 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to the poetic & highly experimental novel The Waves (1931) She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism short fiction journalism & biography including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) & A Room of One's Own (1929) a passionate feminist essay If you enjoyed To the Lighthouse you might like James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man also available in Penguin Classics' Bears endless re-reading the sea encircles the story in a brilliant ebb & flow' Rachel Billington ...

When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse the following day little does she know that this trip will only be completed ten years later by her husband & that a gulf of war grief & loss will have opened in the meantime ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Hot on the heels of her acclaimed success in The Good Life Penelope Keith undertook a role that would further confirm her place as one of Britain&s leading comic actors the role of Audrey Fforbes-Hamilton in To The Manor Born Series One first broadcast in 1979 finds Audrey mourning the death of her husband but more importantly mourning his inability to handle his financial affairs Forced to sell her beloved Grantleigh Manor she is equally distressed to find it bought by upstart businessman Richard De Vere a man with no concept of the history or the valued place of the Estate in the community Audrey must roll her sleeves up It&s time for the ex-Lady of the Manor to put the new Lord in his place or vice versa A battle of wits is about to take place that will find the winner To The Manor Born ...

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Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks from source to sea Along the way she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives tracing their intricate flow through literature mythology & folklore Lyrical & stirring To the River is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape
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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 TO THE WONDER is the beautiful & acclaimed latest offering from Terrence Malick the legendary director of The Tree of Life Badlands & Days of Heaven The film is centred on Neil (Ben Affleck Argo) a man who is torn between two loves Marina (Olga Kurylenko Quantum of Solace) the European woman who comes to United States to be with him & Jane (Rachel Mc Adams Midnight in Paris) the old flame he reconnects with from his hometown Neil&s doubts about his life & loves are reflected in the crisis of faith experienced by Father Quintana (Javier Bardem Skyfall) who only sees pain & the loss of hope in the world In TO THE WONDER Malick explores how love & its many phases & seasons
- passion sympathy obligation sorrow indecision
- can transform destroy & reinvent lives Actors Ben Affleck Rachel Mc Adams Javier Bardem Olga Kurylenko Charles Baker Romina Mondello Darryl Cox Cassidee Vandalia Tatiana Chiline Jeff Anderson Gregg Elliott Paris Always Russell Vaclaw Russ Vaclaw & Tamar Baruch Director Terrence Malick Certificate 15 years & over Year 2012 Screen Widescreen 2351 Languages English Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 48 minutes (approx)

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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 TO THE WONDER is the beautiful & acclaimed latest offering from Terrence Malick the legendary director of The Tree of Life Badlands & Days of Heaven The film is centred on Neil (Ben Affleck Argo) a man who is torn between two loves Marina (Olga Kurylenko Quantum of Solace) the European woman who comes to United States to be with him & Jane (Rachel Mc Adams Midnight in Paris) the old flame he reconnects with from his hometown Neil&s doubts about his life & loves are reflected in the crisis of faith experienced by Father Quintana (Javier Bardem Skyfall) who only sees pain & the loss of hope in the world In TO THE WONDER Malick explores how love & its many phases & seasons
- passion sympathy obligation sorrow indecision
- can transform destroy & reinvent lives Actors Ben Affleck Rachel Mc Adams Javier Bardem Olga Kurylenko Charles Baker Romina Mondello Darryl Cox Cassidee Vandalia Tatiana Chiline Jeff Anderson Gregg Elliott Paris Always Russell Vaclaw Russ Vaclaw & Tamar Baruch Director Terrence Malick Certificate 15 years & over Year 2012 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 48 minutes (approx)


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