The official inside story on the making of the award-winning movie trilogyThe Lord of the Rings: The Making of the Movie Trilogy is a lavishly illustrated, behind-the-scenes, definitive account of the creation of an epic film experience. Hailed by critics worldwide, part one of the movie trilogy was a box-office smash, one of the most successful films of the decade. Peter Jackson\'s \"fierce, imaginative

One of the most original American writers, Edgar Allen Poe shaped the development of both the detectvie story and the science-fiction story. Some of his poems—\"The Raven,\" \"The Bells,\" \"Annabel Lee\"—remain among the most popular in American literature. Poe\'s tales of the mmacabre still thrill readers of all ages. Here are familiar favorites like \"The Purloined Letter,\" \"The Fall of the House

Meet Oswald Hendryks Cornelius, Roald Dahl\'s most extraordinary adult creation ...Aside from being thoroughly debauched, strikingly attractive and astonishingly wealthy, Uncle Oswald was the greatest bounder, bon vivant and fornicator of all time. In this instalment of his scorchingly frank memoirs, he tells of his early career and erotic education at the hands of a number of enthusiastic teachers,

\"Now is the winter of our discontent,\" intones Richard, Duke of Gloucester at the beginning of Shakespeare\'s Richard III, one of his most abidingly popular plays, and one of the most chilling portrayals of political tyranny ever seen on stage. Richar d emerges from the chaos which surrounds the reign of Henry VI, already dramatised by Shakespeare earlier in his career, determined to become king

The plague of frogs has ended, but earth will never be the same, and the fractured B.P.R.D. struggles to battle dangerous monsters and humans alike, from a trailer-park cult to a Russian town ravaged by a zombie-like virus. Guy Davis\'s final B.P.R.D. story sets the stage for Tyler Crook\'s (Harrow County) backwoods-horror debut, as Liz Sherman hides from a world that she helped push toward armageddon,

She\'s dead but she\'s the only one who knows what really happened; What your friends have said. What the police missed. Who attacked you. So if you want the truth who else are you going to turn to?

Big doesnt always mean better. Small City Houses wants to prove that you dont need many square meters to create wonderful spaces. The book is a collection of small homes that symbolize contemporary cultural coded values: compactness, efficiency and minimalism.

Robert Plant is one of the few genuine living rock legends. Frontman of Led Zeppelin, musical innovator and seller of millions of records, Plant has had a profound influence on music for over four decades. But the full account of his life has barely been told ...until now. Robert Plant: A Life is the first complete and comprehensive telling of Plant\'s story. From his earliest performances in folk

The SOBOTTA Atlas covers the complete macroscopic anatomy in full detail and equaled quality with almost 2000 figures. The Atlas is organized by body region, corresponding to the way you\'re expected to learn during your dissection labs. Simple new introdu

Sarah and Jessica arrive in New Zealand for a holiday. They find a mobile phone in the taxi from the airport. It is Michael’s mobile, but they can’t find him? He has messages from home – are they important? Go with the girls on a New Zealand adventure.

A radical look at Jane Austen as you\'ve never seen her - as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. The Genius of Jane Austen celebrates Britain\'s favourite novelist 200 years after her death and explores why her books make such awesome movies, time after time. Jane Austen loved the theatre. She learned much of her art from a long tradition of English comic drama and took joyous participation

Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this work is not only a narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327, but also a chronicle of the 14th century religious wars, a history of monastic orders and a compendium of heretical movements.

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Diderot\'s The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into the effects of forced vocations and the unnatural life of the convent. A succès de scandale at the end of the eighteenth century, it has attracted and

Les plaisanteries les plus courtes sont toujours les meilleures ! Plongez avec nous dans l\'univers loufoque de trois nouvelles plus tordantes les unes que les autres. Vous y découvrirez un couple jaloux qui brise la vaisselle, un bal masqué o des inconnus s\'étonnent de ne pas se connaître, et un happy end o le plus malheureux n\'est pas celui qu\'on croit. Puis vous vous laisserez séduire par la

Although he is now mostly remembered as a novelist, it is as a poet and translator of poetry that Sandor Marai - the acclaimed author of Embers and Conversations in Bolzano - first made his name in the literary world. This collection, the first and only edition of Marai\'s poems in the English language - here presented in John Ridland\'s and Peter V. Czipott\'s brilliant verse translation - offers

\'I was desperate to read more!\' Amazon reviewer. From the bestselling author of While My Eyes Were Closed comes a heartbreaking novel about starting over. Jo Gilroy, an award-winning TV news reporter, gave her heart away once. She won\'t be making the same mistake again. Having been dumped by Richard, the father of her toddler son Alfie, she returns to work to find she has been demoted and that Richard

Although the architect of the White\'s victory, Auraya feels no joy. Her days are spent trying to reconcile the Dreamweavers and the priesthood, while her sleep is filled with nightmares. The dead haunt her and the only one she trusts to help has vanished. Still struggling to come to terms with the increasingly powerful memories of the long-dead Mirar, the Dreamweaver, Leiard, flees into the mountains