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In the Spring of 1975 the film director Richard Pearce
approached Cormac McCarthy with the idea of writing a screenplay.
Though already a widely acclaimed novelist, the author of such
modern classics as The Orchard Keeper and Child of God, McCarthy
had never before written a screenplay. Using nothing more than a
few photographs in the footnotes to a 1928 biography of a famous
pre-Civil War industrialist as inspiration, the author and Pearce
together roamed the mill towns of the South researching their
subject. One year later McCarthy finished The Gardener's Son, a
taut, riveting drama of impotence, rage, and ultimately violence
spanning two generations of mill owners and workers, fathers and
sons, during the rise and fall of one of America's most bizarre
utopian industrial experiments. Produced as a two-hour film and
broadcast on PBS in 1976, The Gardener's Son recieved two Emmy
Award nominations and was shown at the Berlin and Edinburgh Film
Festivals. This is the first appearance of the film script in book
form.
Set in Graniteville, South Carolina, The Gardener's Son is the
tale of two families: the Greggs, a wealthy family that owns and
operates the local cotton mill, and the McEvoys, a family of mill
workers beset by misfortune. The action opens as Robert McEvoy, a
young mill worker, is having his leg amputated -- the limb mangled
in an accident rumored to have been caused by James Gregg, son of
the mill's founder. McEvoy, crippled and isolated, grows into a man
with a "troubled heart"; consumed by bitterness and anger, he
deserts both his job and his family.
Returning two years later at the news of his mother's terminal
illness, Robert McEvoy arrives only to confront the grave diggers
preparing her final resting place. His father, the mill's gardener,
is now working on the factory line, the gardens forgotten. These
proceedings stoke the slow burning rage McEvoy carries within him,
a fury that ultimately consumes both the McEvoys and the
Greggs.
PLAY. LEARN. MAKE. CONNECT. Explore, question, and create with Look
and See, a 3-level series for very young learners of English. Help
learners understand how the world works with photos, video, and
topics across real-world subject areas, featuring the National
Geographic Photo Ark. Show children how to work together with
Games, Songs and Value activities that promote play, curiosity, and
understanding. Give very young learners a strong language
foundation and prepare them to read and write with lessons for
phonemic awareness, grammar preparation, and prewriting practice.
Teach confidently with step-by-step lesson plans, extra teaching
material, and comprehensive digital classroom presentation support.
With Videos that show children the world up close and Projects that
allow them to interact with it, Look and See has everything
teachers need to help students play, learn, make, and connect and
deepen their understanding of the world and English.
The world is an amazing place. Get up close with Look, a
seven-level series for young learners of English. See something
real with amazing photography, authentic stories and video, and
inspiring National Geographic Explorers. Help learners make
connections in English between their lives and the world they live
in through high-interest, global topics that encourage them to
learn and express themselves. With short, fresh lessons that excite
students and make teaching a joy, Look gives young learners the
core language, balanced skills foundation and confidence-boosting
exam support they need to use English successfully in the 21st
century.
Have you always wanted to write a novel - but don't know where to
start? Novelist Sophie King will guide you through the first steps
from finding ideas that will keep the plot going, to crafting the
perfect ending. It will help you create characters that sing from
the page and unravel the mysteries of dialogue and viewpoint. Each
chapter also contains exercises to hone your skills.
Provides consolidation and extension for language, grammar,
vocabulary, reading, writing, and fluency
George Orwell set out 'to make political writing into an art', and
to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature -
his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new
vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism.
While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic
novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell's essays
seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and
literature to a new readership. In The Prevention of Literature,
the third in the Orwell's Essays series, Orwell considers the
freedom of thought and expression. He discusses the effect of the
ownership of the press on the accuracy of reports of events, and
takes aim at political language, which 'consists almost entirely of
prefabricated phrases bolted together.' The Prevention of
Literature is a stirring cry for freedom from censorship, which
Orwell says must start with the writer themselves: 'To write in
plain vigorous language one has to think fearlessly.'
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Lesson Planners include step-by-step instructions for teaching the
Student's Book lessons as well as additional teaching tips,
strategies, and content information and access to audio, video, and
assessment and teaching resources.
The world is an amazing place. Get up close with Look, a
seven-level series for young learners of English. See something
real with amazing photography, authentic stories and video, and
inspiring National Geographic Explorers. Help learners make
connections in English between their lives and the world they live
in through high-interest, global topics that encourage them to
learn and express themselves. With short, fresh lessons that excite
students and make teaching a joy, Look gives young learners the
core language, balanced skills foundation and confidence-boosting
exam support they need to use English successfully in the 21st
century.
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Wonderful World 6
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Katy Clements, Michele Crawford, Katrina Gormley, Jennifer Heath
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Wonderful World is an innovative six-level course for primary
school children. It brings the world of English language learning
to life through fun stories, breathtaking images and fascinating
facts which will engage and entertain your learners, as they find
out about the world around them. It incorporates: Stunning National
Geographic photography Texts inspired by National Geographic
content Authentic National Geographic DVD material
Every green-lighted screenplay travels a long and harrowing
road from idea to script to celluloid. In this fascinating survey
of contemporary film craft, David Cohen of Script and Variety
magazines interviews screenwriters from across the board--Oscar
winners and novices alike--to explore what sets blockbuster
successes apart from downright disasters. Tracing the fortunes of
twenty-five films, including Troy, Erin Brockovich, Lost in
Translation, and The Aviator, Cohen offers valuable insider access
to the back lots and boardrooms, to the studio heads and directors,
and to the overcaffeinated screenwriters themselves. Full of
critical clues on how to sell a script--and avoid seeing it
destroyed before the director calls "Action!"--Screen Plays is a
book that both the aspiring screenwriter and curious cinephile will
find irresistible.
Award-winning author Helen Humphreys tells a beautiful tale in this
brilliant memoir of the writing life as told through the dogs
Humphreys has lived with and loved over a lifetime. An artist's
solitude is a sacred space, one to be guarded and kept apart from
the chaos of the world. But in the artist's quiet there is also
loneliness, self-doubt, the possibility of collapsing too far
inward. What an artist needs is a familiar, a creature perfectly
suited to accompany them on this coveted, difficult journey. They
need a companion with emotional intelligence, innate curiosity,
passion, energy, and an enthusiasm for the world beyond, but also
the capacity to sleep contentedly for many hours. What an artist
needs, Helen Humphreys would say, is a dog. This brilliant
reflection touches on themes of connection, solitude, friendship
and the creative process, and culminating with the arrival of a new
puppy, Fig. A love song to the dogs who come into our lives, and
all that they bring-sorrow, mayhem, meditation, joy-this is a book
about companionship and loss, creativity and the writer's craft,
filled with the beauty of a steadfast canine friend and the
restorative powers of nature. Interspersed are stories of other
writers and their irreplaceable companions: Virginia Woolf and
Grizzle, Gertrude Stein and Basket, Thomas Hardy and Wessex-the dog
who walked the dining table at dinner parties, taking whatever he
liked-and many more. Just as every work of art is different, every
dog is different-with distinctive needs and lessons to offer. If we
let them guide us, they, like art, will show us many worlds we
would otherwise miss.
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