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'For twenty- one years I have been shuffling back and forth between
classrooms and libraries. Now you tell me what the hell it's got
me.' That's how Benjamin Braddock talked when he came down from
university. Somehow it didn't seem to be what his father expected
from a college education, and everyone was really appalled when Ben
raped Mrs Robinson (that was her story anyway) and ran off with her
daughter in the middle of her wedding to someone else... a
brilliantly sordid tale of a young man's search for identity and a
portrayal of the worst-behaved yet most sympathetic anti-hero of
the day.
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The Graduate (Paperback)
Charles Webb; Introduction by Hanif Kureishi
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As far as Benjamin Braddock's parents are concerned, his future is
sewn up. Now he has graduated from college, he will go to Yale or
Harvard, get a good job and enjoy a life of money, cocktails and
pool parties in the suburbs, just like them. For Benjamin, however,
this isn't quite enough. When his parents' friend Mrs Robinson, a
formidable older woman, strips naked in front of him and they begin
an affair, it seems he might have found a way out. That is, until
her daughter Elaine comes into the picture, and things get far more
complicated.
'They speak to me, Vicks.' Celandine hugs Vicky in windswept
Kensington Gore. 'They speak to me from heaven.' London 1921.
24-year-old Celandine Greenstreet wants to write symphonies, but
she hides an astonishing secret. What is the dreadful rift that
forms between her and Alex? Why is Celandine cast aside by Estreham
Academy? Who comes back into her life after ten years separation?
What is the shocking nature of the lies she is told by the only man
she ever loved? These are just some of the burning questions that
must be answered in this skilfull and carefully crafted, yet
harrowing story of Celandine's life in the years following the
Great War. A prodigiously talented musician, she faces a continual
fight to prove her sanity, achieve her ambitions and demonstrate
her innocence of the appalling crime she stands accused of. In 'A
Solitary Girl' the narrative probes deeply into troubled minds,
shows us the limits and dangers of early twentieth century
psychiatry, weaves a complex web of grief, ambition, love and hate,
leavened throughout with a dash of humour.
The basis for Mike Nichols' acclaimed 1967 film starring Dustin Hoffman -- and for successful stage productions in London and on Broadway -- this classic novel about a naive college graduate adrift in the shifting social and sexual mores of the 1960s captures with hilarity and insight the alienation of youth and the disillusionment of an era. The Graduate When Benjamin Braddock graduates from a small Eastern college and moves home to his parents' house, everyone wants to know what he's going to do with his life. Embittered by the emptiness of his college education and indifferent to his grim prospects -- grad school? a career in plastics? -- Benjamin falls haplessly into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, the relentlessly seductive wife of his father's business partner. It's only when beautiful coed Elaine Robinson comes home to visit her parents that Benjamin, now smitten, thinks he might have found some kind of direction in his life. Unfortuately for Benjamin, Mrs. Robinson plays the role of protective mother as well as she does the one of mistress. A wondrously fierce and absurd battle of wills ensues, with love and idealism triumphing over the forces of corruption and conformity.
In the blistering summer of 1911, City stockbroker George Chesshyre
moves his family to a new house in south London. George looks
forward to a life of domestic bliss but a continuous chain of
events conspires against him and his yearned for reverie is
repeatedly thwarted and dashed by the arrival of cantankerous and
odd relatives, unexpected animals and a merciless drain on his
wallet. Not helped by the unceasing, debilitating heat of one of
the hottest summers on record, George battles to and from the City
each day on the 'Slow Train to Suburbia'. As the year progresses
and the autumn leaves fall, a procession of colourful characters
adds, by turn, hilarity and heartbreak, culminating in a riotous
Christmas Day, a fitting climax to an event-filled year. In 'Slow
Train to Suburbia' the author paints a sympathetic and nostalgic
picture of life in the suburbs before the First World War. The
world is rapidly changing and old certainties are fading fast. The
dying embers of the Edwardian age are captured beautifully in the
situations, characters and prose, and will leave a deep and lasting
impression in the memories and imaginations of everyone who reads
and enjoys this unusual novel.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1835 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1836 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1832 Edition.
YOU are a bodymind, not a body with a mind or vice versa. You are a
verb, not a noun. You are fluid, constantly changing. The static
you is a persistent illusion. You... your self, persona, ego...who
you are... is a construct that is formed by the interaction of
genetics, imprinting, and learning. You have little input into this
process until after you have been thoroughly shaped by parents,
peers and culture. Now consider that this you that you now seem to
be is, actually, very much like a fictitious character that may
appear in a novel, play or movie and may be re-written, re-produced
and re-performed, using the techniques of those media. One part of
your character description that can effectively be re-written,
re-produced and re-performed is your functional age, which is
defined as a combination and interaction of your chronological,
physiological, psychological, and emotional ages. The Cinemorphic
techniques discussed in METHOD AGING open the door to this
transformation.
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