Spiegelman has turned the exuberant fantasy of comics inside out by giving us the most incredible fantasy in comics history: something that actually occurred. "MAUS" is terrifying not for its brutality but for its tenderness & guilt". (" New Yorker"). "MAUS" is widely renowned as one of the greatest pieces of art & literature ever written about the Holocaust. It is adored by readers & studied in colleges & universities all over the world. But what led Art Spiegelman to tell his fathers story in the first place? Why did he choose to depict the Jews as mice? How could a comic book confront the terror & brutality of the worst atrocity of the twentieth century? To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the books first publication " Meta MAUS" prepared by the author is a vital companion to the classic text &

Includes:: never-before-seen sketches rough & alternate drafts family & reference photos notebook & diary entries & the transcript of his interviews with his father Vladek as well as a long interview with Art in which he discusses the books extraordinary history & origins. The book

Includes:: a brand new DVD packed with extra images video & commentary."



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The theme of the Metamorphoses is change & transformation as illustrated in Graeco-Roman myth & legend. On this ostensibly unifying thread Ovid strings together a vast & kaleidoscopic sequence of brilliant narratives in which the often paradoxical & always arbitrary fates of his human & divine characters reflect the never-ending flux & reflux of the universe itself. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords 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. ...

Superb collection by modern master explores the complexity anxiety & futility of modern life. Excellent new English translations of the title story (considered by many critics Kafkas most perfect work) plus The Judgment " " In the Penal Colony " "A Country Doctor" & "A Report to an Academy." Note." ...

Ovids deliciously witty & exuberant epic starts with the creation of the world & brings together a series of ingeniously linked Greek & Roman myths & legends in which men & women are transformed often by love
- into flowers trees stones & stars. This new verse translation in simple & swift English hexameters allows Ovids narrative to flow
- pulling the reader along with it.

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This selection of Kafkas shorter prose writings

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A key anthology for students of English literature Metaphysical Poetry" is a collection whose unique philosophical insights are some of the crowning achievements of Renaissance verse edited with an introduction & notes by Colin Burrow in " Penguin Classics". Spanning the Elizabethan age to the Restoration & beyond Metaphysical poetry sought to describe a time of startling progress scientific discovery unrivalled exploration & deep religious uncertainty. This compelling collection of the best & most enjoyable poems from the era

Includes:: tightly argued lyrics erotic & libertine considerations of love divine poems & elegies of lament by such great figures as John Donne George Herbert Andrew Marvell & John Milton alongside pieces from many other less well known but equally fascinating poets of the age such as Anne Bradstreet Katherine Philips & Thomas Traherne. Widely varied in theme all are characterized by their use of startling metaphors imagery & language to express the uncertainty of an age & a profound desire for originality that was to prove deeply influential on later poets & in particular poets of the Modernist movement such as T. S. Eliot. In his introduction Colin Burrow explores the nature of Metaphysical poetry its development across the seventeenth century & its influence on later poets &

Includes:: a very short history of " Metaphysical Poetry" from Donne to Rochester. This edition also

Includes:: detailed notes a chronology & further reading. Colin Burrow is Reader in Renaissance & Comparative Literature at Gonville & Caius College Cambridge. He has edited Shakespeares " Sonnets for OUP" & " The Complete Works of Ben Jonson" & is working on the Elizabethan volume of the Oxford English Literary History. If you enjoyed " Metaphysical Poetry" you might like John Donnes " Selected Poems" also available in " Penguin Classics"."





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Aristotles probing inquiry into some of the fundamental problems of philosophy The Metaphysics" is one of the classical Greek foundation-stones of western thought translated from the with an introduction by Hugh Lawson-Tancred in " Penguin Classics". " The Metaphysics" presents Aristotles mature rejection of both the Platonic theory that what we perceive is just a pale reflection of reality & the hard-headed view that all processes are ultimately material. He argued instead that the reality or substance of things lies in their concrete forms & in so doing he probed some of the deepest questions of philosophy: What is existence? How is change possible? & are there certain things that must exist for anything else to exist at all? The seminal notions discussed in " The Metaphysics"
- of substance & associated concepts of matter & form essence & accident potentiality & actuality
- have had a profound & enduring influence & laid the foundations for one of the central branches of Western philosophy. Hugh Lawson-Tancreds lucid translation is accompanied by a stimulating introduction in which he highlights the central themes of one of philosophys supreme masterpieces. Aristotle (384-22 BC) studied at the Academy of Plato for 20 years & then established his own school & research institute The Lyceum. His writings which were of extraordinary range profoundly affected the whole course of ancient & medieval philosophy & are still eagerly studied & debated by philosophers today. If you enjoyed " The Metaphysics" you might like Aristotles " The Nicomachean Ethics" also available in " Penguin Classics"."

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Collected for the first time eleven tales of Sir Seaton Begg vs Count Zodiac including the never before seen ' The Flaneur of the Arcades d' Opera'. Seaton Begg & his constant companion pathologist Dr ' Taffy' Sinclair both head the secret British Home Office section of the Metatemporal Investigation Department
- an organisation whose function is understood only by the most high-ranking government people around the world
- & a number of powerful criminals. Begg's cases cover a multitude of crimes in dozens of alternate worlds generally where transport is run by electricity where the internal combustion engine is unknown & where giant airships are the chief form of international carrier. He investigates the murder of English Prime Minister ' Lady Ratchet' the kidnapping of the king of a country taken over by a totalitarian regime & the death of Geli Raubel Adolf Hitler's mistress. Other adventures take him to a wild west where 'the Masked Buckaroo' is tracking down a mysterious red-eyed Apache known as the White Wolf; to 1960s' Chicago where a girl has been killed in a sordid disco; & to an independent state of Texas controlled by neocon Christians with oily (and bloody) hands. He visits Paris where he links up with his French colleagues of the Surete du Temps Perdu. In several cases the fanatical Adolf Hitler is his opponent but his arch-enemy is the mysterious black sword wielding aristocrat known as Zenith the Albino a drug-dependent charismatic exile from a distant realm he once ruled. In each story the Metatemporal Detectives' cases take them to worlds at once like & unlike our own sometimes at odds with & sometimes in league with the beautiful adventuresses Mrs. Una Persson or Lady Rosie von Bek. At last Begg & Sinclair come face to face with their nemesis on the moonbeam roads which cross between the universes where the great Eternal Balance itself is threatened with destruction & from which only the luckiest & most daring of metatemporal adventurers will return. These fast-paced mysteries pay homage to Moorcock's many literary enthusiasms for authors as diverse as Clarence E Mulford Dashiell Hammett Georges Simenon & his boyhood hero Sexton Blake.

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A total of 10 500 missiles were launched as part of the V1 attack of which 3 957 were destroyed by the defences. Indeed it could have been much worse for by the end of the war the Germans had manufactured close to 32 000 flying bombs. The defences put forward to guard against the V1 were formidable
- 23 000 men & women with their guns radar & communications networks were installed on coastal sites. Squadrons of Britains newest Spitfires the F XIVs & Hawker Tempest Vs were kept at home to battle the new menace. Rushed into action in July 1944 to help counter the V1 threat Britains Gloster Meteor I was the first jet fighter to enter RAF service. On 4 August the Meteor scored its first V1 victory. Having just closed in on a flying bomb its officer squeezed the trigger but his guns jammed. Using the Meteors superior speed he was able to overtake the missile & using his wing tip he tipped the craft over & sent it crashing into the ground. The interceptions between the V1 & Britains Gloster Meteor were historic & ushered in a new era of aerial combat.
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