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Thomas Mann and RJ Cyler star in this coming-of-age drama directed
by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon. Greg and Earl (Mann and Cyler) are high
school students who spend their time making their own versions of
classic movies. Greg makes it his high school purpose to not belong
to any one group, but to have a small role to play in each and
every clique. When Greg's mother (Connie Britton) tells him that a
girl from his class, Rachel (Olivia Cook), has been diagnosed with
leukemia, she convinces her son to pay her a friendly visit. As
Greg tries to get to know Rachel and provide her with a comforting
shoulder to cry on, the two end up forming a unique bond of
friendship and provide each other with much-needed love and
affection.
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Beautiful Creatures (DVD)
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Supernatural teenage drama directed by Richard LaGravenese and
adapted from the novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. A
mysterious young girl, Lena (Alice Englert), moves to a new school
in Gatlin, South Carolina, quickly grabbing the attention of local
boy Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich). When it is revealed that Lena is in
fact a Caster with magic powers and only has a short time before
she faces 'claiming' by either the light or dark side, the pair set
out to find a way to prevent her from going evil, as her mother
did. As they do, they unlock the secrets of their past and discover
they share a connection through history.
A towering figure in the pantheon of twentieth-century literature,
Thomas Mann has often been perceived as a dry and forbidding
writer—“the starched collar,” as Bertolt Brecht once called
him. But in fact, his fiction is lively, humane, sometimes
hilarious. In these fresh renderings of his best short work,
award-winning translator Damion Searls casts new light on this
underappreciated aspect of Mann’s genius. The headliner of this
volume, “Chaotic World and Childhood Sorrow” (in its first new
translation since 1936)—a subtle masterpiece that reveals the
profound emotional significance of everyday life—is Mann’s
tender but sharp-eyed portrait of the “Bigs” and “Littles”
of the bourgeois Cornelius family as they adjust to straitened
circumstances in hyperinflationary Weimar Germany. Here, too, is a
free-standing excerpt from Mann’s first novel, Buddenbrooks—a
sensation when it was first published. “Death in Venice” (also
included in this volume) is Mann’s most famous story, but less
well known is that he intended it to be a diptych with another,
comic story—included here as “Confessions of a Con Artist, by
Felix Krull.” “Louisey”—a tale of sexual humiliation that
gives a first glimpse of Mann’s lifelong ambivalence about the
power of art—rounds out this revelatory, transformative
collection.
Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton star in this action comedy inspired by the Grimm Brothers fairytale. The film is set 15 years after the young Hansel and Gretel were abandoned by their parents in the forest and taken prisoner in a gingerbread house by a child-eating witch. The siblings managed to escape, and in the intervening years have taken advantage of their subsequent immunity to bad spells and curses to set themselves up as expert bounty hunters, becoming world-famous for their skill in tracking down and killing evil-doers around the globe.
The film follows the brother and sister on their latest assignment - a campaign against evil sorceress Muriel (Famke Janssen) - which they begin to realise may be their golden opportunity for revenge of a more personal nature.
Introduction by T. J. Reed; Translation by John E. Woods
With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the
front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain takes place in an
exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps-a community
devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe
in the days before the First World War. To this hermetic and
otherworldly realm comes Hans Castorp, an "ordinary young man" who
arrives for a short visit and ends up staying for seven years,
during which he succumbs both to the lure of eros and to the
intoxication of ideas.
This European masterpiece from the Nobel prizewinner explores the
lure and degeneracy of ideas in an introverted community on the eve
of World War I.
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Hans Castorp is 'a perfectly ordinary, if engaging
young man' when he goes to visit his cousin in an exclusive
sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. What should have been a three week
trip turns into a seven year stay.
Hans falls in love and becomes
intoxicated with the ideas he hears at the clinic - ideas which
will strain and crack apart in a world on the verge of the First
World War.
Featuring his world-famous masterpiece, "Death in Venice," this new
collection of Nobel laureate Thomas Mann's stories and novellas
reveals his artistic evolution. In this new, widely acclaimed
translation that restores the controversial passages that were cut
out of the original English version, "Death in Venice" tells about
a ruinous quest for love and beauty amid degenerating splendor.
Gustav von Aschenbach, a successful but lonely author, travels to
the Queen of the Adriatic in search of an elusive spiritual
fulfillment that turns into his erotic doom. Spellbound by a
beautiful Polish boy, he finds himself fettered to this hypnotic
city of sun-drenched sensuality and eerie physical decay.
Also included in this volume are eleven other stories by Mann:
"Tonio Kroger," "Gladius Dei," "The Blood of the Walsungs," "The
Will for Happiness," "Little Herr Friedmann," "Tobias
Mindernickel," "Little Lizzy," "Tristan," "The Starvelings," "The
Wunderkind," and "Harsh Hour." All of the stories collected here
display Mann's inimitable use of irony, his subtle
characterizations, and superb, complex plots.
Mann began working on The Magic Mountain in 1912, following a few
weeks' visit to a sanatorium in Switzerland. Twelve years later the
novel that had begun as a short story appeared in two long volumes.
The war that had postponed the book's completion had "incalculably
enriched its content." Now it was a massive meditation on "the
inner significance of an epoch, the pre-war period of European
history." It was an immense international success from the time of
its publication.
The Magic Mountain is the story of an unassuming, undistinguished
young engineer named Hans Castorp who sits on the balcony of a
sanatorium, wrapped in his camel's hair blanket, thermometer in his
mouth, naively but earnestly pondering the meaning of life, time,
and his love for the beautiful Frau Chauchat. Among the other
characters on this Germanic ship of fools are the malapropian Frau
Stohr; Hofrat Behrens, the head doctor, and his hearty but
sick-looking sidekick, Dr. Krokowski; Ludovico Settembrini, the
enlightened humanist; Han's noble cousin Joachim Ziemssen; and
Hermine Kleefeld, who, with her whistling pneumothorax, is the
pride of the Half-Lung Club. In this community organization
completely in reference to disease, Hans Castrop achieves a kind of
transcendence unimaginable in the world of the "flatlands" below
him.
Death in Venice is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is
a successful but ageing writer who travels to Venice for a holiday.
One day, he notices an exceptionally beautiful young boy who is
staying with his family in the same hotel. Soon Aschenbach's days
begin to revolve around seeing this boy and he is too distracted to
pay attention to the ominous rumours of disease spreading through
the city.
This volume includes six additional stories: Little Herr
Friedemann; The Joker; The Road to the Churchyard; Gladius Dei;
Tristan; and Tonio Kroger.
Fiction. Translated from the German by Isabel F. Cole. From the
author of the highly-acclaimed novel The Maimed, the
completecollection of his short fiction translated for the first
time into English. Admired by Thomas Mann, whose Preface is
included in this volume for his analysis of the human psyche, Ungar
was a writer of unique talent whose life was prematurely ended by
illness. The stories in this volume are in turn grotesque and
comical as they explore the depravities of the heart anddelusions
of the mind. Taking Prague as well as his hometown of Boskovice for
his settings, Ungar can be located in that illustrious tradition of
both Prague German writers (he was associated with Franz Kafka in
the Prague Circle) and Jewish writers of the Austro-Hungarian
Empire, such as Joseph Roth. Long forgotten in German literature,
Ungar1s work has experienced a renaissance over the past decade
with new editions appearing in German as well as in Dutch, French,
Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, and English. "
In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps--a community devoted exclusively to sickness--as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death.
Hyperpartisanship has gridlocked the American government.
Congress's approval ratings are at record lows, and both Democrats
and Republicans are disgusted by the government's inability to get
anything done. In It's Even Worse than It Looks, Congressional
scholars Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein present a grim
picture of how party polarization and tribal politics have led
Congress- and the United States- to the brink of institutional
failure.In this revised edition, the authors bring their seminal
book up-to-date in a political environment that is more divided
than ever. The underlying dynamics of the situation- extremist
Republicans holding government hostage to their own ideological,
anti-government beliefs- have only gotten worse, further bolstering
their argument that Republicans are not merely ideologically
different from Democrats, but engaged in a unique form of politics
that undermines the system itself. Without a fundamental change in
the character and course of the Republican Party, we may have a
long way to go before we hit rock bottom.
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