Each book in this inspired series by fashion writer Camilla Morton inventively reimagines one of our favorite Once Upon a Time" stories blending it with the real-life story of a famed fashion designer. Lushly illustrated by the designers themselves these tales illuminate each iconic individuals creative magic while celebrating his unique life & career. The result is an intriguing combination of whimsy & memoir. In this contemporary twist on the tale of the " Elves & the Shoemaker" Manolo Blahniks delightful drawings evoke the past envision the future & of course evidence the indelible footprint hes made on fashion history. His illustrations take us from the banana plantations of his childhood to his current reign at the top of high-fashion footwear design while playfully hinting at all the adventures hes had & friends hes met along the way." ...

The follow up companion to the bestselling Manolo Blahnik Drawings" this book presents a brand new collection of Manolos celebrated shoe designs. The book is organized thematically to express Manolo Blahniks interests & passions art history architecture film (including his renowned designs for Sofia Coppolas Marie Antoinette) theatre & flora & fauna. An introduction by Blahnik himself is accompanied by contributions from some of the best-known names in fashion Suzy Menkes Grace Coddington Milena Canonero Amy Fine Collins & Carlos Garcia Calvo each of whom provides valuable insight into the world of Manolo Blahnik. This is must-buy book for the thousands of people of who own Blahniks shoes or who wish they did." ...

This photographic portrait of a period at once familiar & remote spans more than 120 years & contains the largest number of pictures most of them previously unpublished ever to appear in a book on the town. It recalls the smaller essentially industrial community whose streets were still pervaded by the whiff of the farmyard & where close on 100 passenger trains called at the station where water was drawn from a well & if few children went to school church attendances were higher. But change has dominated the years since earliest photographs were taken. Textile & hosiery production has almost ceased & mills that once reverberated to the throb of the loom are now silent; the last working malt kiln now houses a nightclub; the horse & the tram have given way to the internal combustion engine & changes the mining industry continue to effect the district. Comprising the work of both professional & gifted amateurs this fascinating selection draws on treasure unearthed in family albums & hidden away in lofts & cupboards as well as in local archive collections. For those who can still remember it offers a trip down memory lane; for others it will be a voyage of discovery & surprise. ...

Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park it has quite unexpected results. The diffident & much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheerful amorality old-fashioned indifference & priggish disapproval of those around her. ...

A meticulously-observed tale of the clash between obligation & desire Jane Austens Mansfield Park" is edited with an introduction & notes by Kathryn Sutherland in " Penguin Classics". Taken from the poverty of her parents home in Portsmouth Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park acutely aware of her humble rank & with her cousin Edmund Bertram as her sole ally. When her uncle Sir Thomas Birtram travels to Antigua siblings Mary & Henry Crawford arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life & a reckless taste for flirtation. As her female cousins vie for Henrys attention & even Edmund falls for Marys dazzling charms only Fanny remains doubtful about the Crawfords influence & finds herself more isolated than ever. " Mansfield Park" is considered Jane Austens first mature work & with its quiet heroine & subtle examination of social position & moral integrity one of her most profound. This edition is based on the first edition of 1814. It

Includes:: a chronology additional suggestions for further reading & the original " Penguin Classics" introduction by Tony Tanner. Jane Austen (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literatures most famous women writers. Austen began writing at a young age embarking on what is possibly her best-known work " Pride & Prejudice" at the age of 22. She was the author of " Sense & Sensibility" " Pride" & " Prejudice" " Emma" " Persuasion" " Mansfield Park" & " Northanger Abbey". If you enjoyed " Mansfield Park" you may like Elizabeth Gaskells " North & South" also available in " Penguin Classics". " The most perfect artist among women the writer whose books are immortal". (Virginia Woolf). " These modern editions are to be strongly recommended for their scrupulous texts informative notes & helpful introductions". (Brian Southam The Jane Austen Society)."

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This is the Penguin English Library Edition" of " Mansfield Park" by Jane Austen. ' We have all been more or less to blame.. .every one of us excepting Fanny'. Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park acutely aware of her humble rank & with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua the Crawford's arrive in the neighbourhood bringing with them the glamour of London life & a reckless taste for flirtation. " Mansfield Park" is considered Jane Austen's first mature work & with its quiet heroine & subtle examination of social position & moral integrity one of her most profound. " The Penguin English Library"
- 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War."
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The story of the military genius Field Marshal Erich von Manstein chronicles the misguided generation of German generals in the Second World War who claimed they fought for Germany not for Hitler & National Socialism. The polished urbane von Manstein was no uncouth Nazi. He persuaded the British writer Liddell Hart to assist in organising his defence during his war crimes trial at Hamburg in 1949. Sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment he was released after three & then advised the West German government in raising its new army in the 1950s. Manstein was the mastermind who created the plan for the 1940 blitzkrieg that overran France in just six weeks. He played a key role in the invasion of Russia & conquered the Crimea but failed to rescue the doomed Sixth Army at Stalingrad his most controversial campaign. Three months after the inevitable failure there he inflicted a massive defeat on the Red Army at Kharkov in a brilliantly designed counter-attack: a battle that has been studied in military academies ever since. Major-General Mungo Melvin speaks good German & knows Germany well. He has been assisted by the Manstein family has delved deeply into the military archives & studied many of Manstein's battlefields close at h&. His book is much more than a biography of an extraordinary soldier: it describes the dilemmas encountered on operations & highlights the enduring tensions between senior military commanders & their political leaders in the prosecution of strategy. In Germany today Manstein has become a symbol of the moral corruption of the Wehrmacht whose commanders' actions enabled Hitler to prosecute a devastating war of conquest & perpetrate the Holocaust. This book reveals the true story of Hitler & his greatest general. ...

Miles Green wakes up in a mysterious hospital with no idea of how he got there or who he is. He definitely doesnt remember his wife or his childrens names. An impossibly shapely specialist doctor tells him his memory nerve-center is connected to sexual activity & calls in the even shapelier Nurse Cory to assist with treatment... In the most unorthodox of hospital rooms we eavesdrop on the serious discourse virulent abuse & hilarious mockery of the erotic guerrilla war that is Mantissa. ...