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Offering commentary on the worlds of film, drama, literature, and language, a collection of criticism and essays by the author of "1984" includes such pieces as "Politics and the English Language," "Rudyard Kipling," and "Good Bad Books."

"66 authors, 82 Stories. Authors Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edward Lear, Oscar Wilde, James Thurber, T.S. Eliot, John Steinbeck, Saki, H.G. Wells, E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence etc.

For Lucy Wells, who lives on a farm in New Hampshire, the summer of 1910 is filled with helping her mother can fruits and vegetables, enjoying the Fourth of July celebration, and other activities.

Ingrid, a smart, free-spirited, and somewhat narcissistic artist kills her deceitful lover in a crime of passion. Even while serving a prison sentence, she exerts control over her adoring teenage daughter, Astrid, who's forced to spend her teenage years in a series of foster home...

He has the appearance and manner of the king, yet he's really a lookalike ... and on his shoulders rests all hope of foiling a blackguard's plot to usurp the throne. Adventure, pageantry and royal intrigue are forged at sword point.

Discusses the history, rules, and equipment of tennis, one of the most popular spectator and participation sports in the world.

The classic literary canon meets the comics artists, illustrators, and other artists who have remade reading in Kick's magisterial, three-volume, full-color "The Graphic Canon," including a Sherlock Holmes mystery, an H.G. Wells story, an illustrated guide to the Beat writers, a ...

A guide to the fundamentals of golf that covers the history, equipment, rules, positions, legends and superstars of the sport and includes information on diet and training for players.

"In fall 2015, the new Trudeau government endorsed the Paris Accord and promised to tackle global warming. In 2016, it released a major report which set out a national energy strategy embracing clean growth, technological innovation and carbon pricing. Rather than putting in plac...

"Lacrosse comes from a Native American sport named baggataway. Baggataway teams could have up to 1,000 players. Learn more in Lacrosse, a For the Love of Sports book. Each title in the For the Love of Sports series features easy-to-read text, stunning visuals, and a challenging e...

Most people think of fairy tales as having been created anonymously and almost magically long ago, and later discovered and recorded by scholars such as the Brothers Grimm. In fact original fairy tales are still being written. Over the last century and a half many well-known auth...

This film follows two men, both of whom have set out on a quest to build their own time machines. Rob Niosi is a stop motion animator who has spent the last eleven years constructing a full-scale replica of the time machine prop from the 1960 film adaptation of H.G. Wells' novell...