Nicholas Farrell
1) The Prelude
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First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative work. The great Romantic poem of human consciousness, it takes as its theme 'the growth of a poet's mind': leading the reader back to Wordsworth's formative moments of childhood and youth, and detailing his experiences as a radical undergraduate in France at the time of the Revolution. Initially inspired by Coleridge's exhortation...
2) Greek Lives
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Plutarch, an early Greek historian, uncovers a series of biographies profiling the most influential men of the Ancient World.
3) Roman Lives
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Though he was Greek, Plutarch wrote his Lives in the first century, a world dominated by the Roman Empire. Plutarch's series of biographies was the first of its kind, as much groundbreaking in conception as the Histories of Herodotus. Plutarch looked at the great men in the Ancient World and told their stories, in many cases drawing on sources which are no longer available to us.
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Oliver Goldsmith's 18th century novel "The Vicar of Wakefield" was so popular in Victorian times that it is mentioned in many classics of that era including George Eliot's "Middlemarch," Jane Austen's "Emma," Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" and Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", amongst others. It is the story of Dr. Charles Primrose, the titular Vicar, his wife Deborah and their six children who live an idyllic life in a country parish. The Vicar...
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London Hospital volume 2
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A scandal brews as Nurse Goodley suspects that Mr. Dean is ignoring the terrible side-effects of a new anaesthetic. Must she risk everything and turn whistleblower? Nurse Bennett fears that her secret alliance with Dr. Culpin has been discovered when Matron Luckes sends her into private nursing.
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London Hospital volume 4
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What is the secret of probationer Nellie Bowers when Sister Russell catches her sneaking out to see a mysterious young man? What is the secret of the woman brought in wearing pauper's clothes but silk underwear? And what is the dangerous experiment that the brilliant pioneer Dr. Henry Head decides he must risk performing on himself?
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London Hospital volume 1
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Revolution grips the East End as an explosion brings fears of a bomb, and the staff struggle to control the angry victims. When detectives arrive, Matron Luckes and Chairman Sydney Holland fear the hospital is in danger of becoming an extension of Scotland Yard. Meanwhile, Sister Ada Russell battles with testy star surgeon Mr. Henry Dean, whose cocaine addiction is an open secret.
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London Hospital volume 3
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The strain of being 'married to the hospital' takes its toll on Sister Ada Russell, as she nears collapse. On one of the London's Jewish wards, Nurse Goodley finds herself increasingly drawn to the charismatic radical Saul Landau - but Saul has a life-threatening illness.
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London Hospital volume 6
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All the secrets burst open, as Matron Luckes clashes with Sister Russell for leaving London to help a family in the slums, while Dr. Culpin clashes with Bennett for giving up studying to be a doctor. And Mr. Dean, supposedly clean, returns to work in the Operating Theatre. In the dead of night a sweatshop fire brings in scores of children, and the staff struggle to avert tragedy.
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London Hospital volume 5
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Dr. Culpin is powerless to help when Ethel Bennett rushes to her dying brother in a naval hospital. Star surgeon Mr. Dean faces destruction through his cocaine addiction. Sister Russell breaks the strict rules of Matron Luckes when she sneaks out of the London to help a young mother.
11) Finding Altamira
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Antonio Banderas stars as a man whose astonishing discovery threatens to shake religious understanding and tear his family apart.
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Kenneth Branagh writes and directs a comic tale about an out-of-work actor's desperate attempt to salvage his career and his life by staging a production of Hamlet. Lacking time and money to do the play justice, he hires a motley cast of drunks, incompetents, oddballs and an aging female impersonator to play Queen Gertrude. Now, through backstage dramas, inevitable disasters and the occasional triumph, this cast of would-be losers strives to create...