C.S. Lewis's famous work on the nature of love divides love into four categories: Affection Friendship Eros & Charity. The first three are loves which come naturally to the human race. Charity however the Gift-love of God is divine in its source & expression & without the sweetening grace of this supernatural love the natural loves become distorted & even dangerous. ...

Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen this collection of Ibsens plays

Includes:: A Dolls House Ghosts

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Come listen listen to the story of the curse that foreshadowed every fathers disappearance. Be comforted by your four mothers" Shifra Horns lyrical novel spans five generations of women & one hundred years of life in Jerusalem. While Amal is despondent at her husbands desertion after the birth of her first child her mother grandmother & great-grandmother realise that the birth of a healthy boy means their familys curse has been broken. Motherhood initiates Amal into the secrets of her familys history & the rich tapestry of the lives of her four "mothers": Mazal whose ill-fated marriage brought about the curse; her daughter Sara who has healing powers; Saras daughter Pnina-Mazal who can read others thoughts; & her daughter Geula
- Amals mother
- whose sharp intellect & idealism are both a gift & a burden."

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Meet the Diamond Brothers the world's worst private-detective agency in four hilarious & action-packed stories from the creator of the Alex Rider" series. It's a dangerous life being the younger brother of the world's worst private detective
- but Nick Diamond has survived...so far. However these four mysteries are set to test his survival instincts to the full: a school reunion on a remote Scottish island a dream holiday to Paris an investigation into the whereabouts of a man in a blurry photo & the high profile visit of a world famous singer. What connects them? Murder! & if the Diamond Brothers don't play their cards right they too could end up dead... These are four diamond stories in one collection including " The French Confection" "I Know What You Did Last Wednesday" " The Blurred Man" & " The Greek Who Stole Christmas". The Diamond Brothers' exposure is at an all-time high with br&-new covers for the entire series. The 2007 World Book Day edition of "I Know What You Did Last Wednesday" shot to No. 1 in the Nielsen/ Bookscan Children's Chart."
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At midnight comes the point of balance. Of danger. The instant of utter stillness when between two beats of the heart an alternative reality can slip through like a blade between the ribs & switch you into a new & terrifying world.FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT: four heart-stopping accounts of that moment when the familiar world fractures beyond sense the fragments spinning away from the desperate clutching reach of sanity.. . ...

The culminating achievement of Eliot's poetic career. The four parts: Burnt Norton" " East Coker" " The Dry Salvages" & " Little Gidding" present a rigorous meditation upon those spiritual philosophical & personal themes that preoccupied the author." ...

These profound studies of the cosmic forces behind the four great festivals of the year provide a wealth of material for fruitful meditation. Rudolf Steiner presents great imaginative pictures that unite the heavens & the earth through a portrayal of the activities of the archangels Michael Gabriel Raphael & Uriel. In the course of the lectures he offers spiritual wisdom on subjects that include the alchemical processes of sulphur mercury & salt in the cosmos man & the plant spiritual combustion processes crystals clouds meteors the movements of elemental beings in nature & the conflicting efforts of the two great adversaries to divert the earth from its true goal. ...

Cornwall 1795 -1799. Although Ross Poldark -- now something of a war hero -- seems secure in his hard-won prosperity a new dilemma faces him in the sudden infatuation of a young naval officer for his wide Demelza. All four women -- the four swans -- whose lives touch Ross's face a crisis in these years. For his wide Demelza his old love Elizabeth for his friend's new wife Caroline & for the unhappy Morwenna Chynoweth these are times of stress & conflict. ' From the incomparable Winston Graham...who has everything that anyone else has & then a whole lot more.' Guardian ...

Four adventures from everybody's favourite park keeper. There's always something happening in Percy's park! Here are four adventures of everybody's favourite park keeper & his animal friends. Featuring: The Secret Path The Rescue Party After the Storm One Snowy Night with music & sound effects. ...

The theme of the great Shakespearean tragedies is the fall from grace of a great man due to a flaw in his nature. Whether it is the ruthless ambition of Macbeth or the folly of Lear the irresolution of Hamlet or the suspicion of Othello the cause of the tragedy
- even when it is the murder of a king
- is trifling compared to the calamity that it unleashes. Despite his flawed nature however the tragic hero has a nobility that emphasizes the greatness of man. From this paradox the audience is brought to a greater understanding of
- & sympathy with
- suffering. The four tragedies in this collection are accompanied by notes & an introduction to each text making this edition of particular value to students & theatre-goers.



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