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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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used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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Beautiful Creatures (DVD)
Emma Thompson, Emmy Rossum, Jeremy Irons, Thomas Mann, Viola Davis, …
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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.
After coming to the United States, Thomas Mann was appointed
Consultant in Germanic Languages and Literatures at the Library of
Congress, which has one of the largest German collections in the
world. Part of his responsibilities was to present an annual
lecture at the Library of Congress. This collection consists of the
lectures he held there, and deals with the following topics: The
Theme of the Joseph Novels; The War and the Future; Germany and the
Germans; Nietzsche's Philosophy in the Light of Contemporary
Events; and, Goethe and Democracy. In America, Thomas Mann was
looked on as an authority figure, and was even referred to as the
Kaiser of the German emigres, and as a latter-day Goethe. As the
most influential and respected German in America, his lectures no
doubt contributed to the American image of Germany, as well as of
German culture in general, and are of great interest and
significance as they relate to the history of German-American
relations.
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.
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.
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.
A portrayal of genius possessed, through the biography of the
composer Adrian Leverkuhn, narrated by his friend Zeitblom in the
years 1943-45, as Germany faces ruin.
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