"My Dear Friend

A sequel to A Portrait in Letters: Correspondence to and about Joseph Conrad (Rodopi, 1995), this volume collects and annotates letters to Joseph Conrad by his family, friends, admirers, and publishers. An indispensable companion to the writer's own letters, it restores the quality of exchange, interaction, and debate that belongs to a major correspondence. It also leads to a fuller, more rounded picture of Conrad in his personal and professional dealings: both of the mutualities and rituals that underpinned his close friendships and of the terms underlying his mutual disagreements with others.

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Few American novels written this century have endured in the heart and memory as has Ray Bradbury's unparalleled literary classic Something Wicked This Way Comes. For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin.The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early.

Have fun learning or teaching English with the latest issue of Hot English magazine (the October issue, 117)
• Learn 500 new useful words and expressions.
• Read about top actor Daniel Craig and his starring role in the film Cowboys & Aliens.
• Find out how to save money with our top tips.
• Learn some phrasal verbs to talk about money!
• Really improve your listening skills with our new Listening Booster section.
• Learn the meaning behind some common hand gestures in English.
• Read some interesting stories about aliens and UFOs (unidentified flying objects).
• Learn English with the stars in our new section Film Scripts. This month: Some Like it Hot.

Alvin Ho - Allergic to Birthday Parties, Science Projects, and Other Man-Made Catastrophes

Here's the third hilarious chapter book in the series about Alvin Ho, a boy who's afraid of everything. For example, what could possibly be so scary about a birthday party? Let Alvin Ho explain: You might be dressed for bowling . . . but everyone else is dressed for swimming. You could get mistaken for the pinata. You could eat too much cake. You could throw up. So when Alvin receives an invitation to a party--a girls party--how will he ever survive?

Whether we love or hate it, Christmas has always played a special role in the cinema, and Christmas movies like "It’s a Wonderful Life" and "Miracle on 34th Street" have a special place in popular affections. They almost constitute a mini-cinematic genre. So what does Christmas in the movies mean to societies across the Anglo-Saxon and European world and what does it have to say about them? The contributors to this book take a good look at popular Christmas films, decoding the messages they convey about preoccupations and attitudes internationally and about the different societies that produce them.