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English
Description
Six celebrated hosts to tell the stories behind the stories of Shakespeare's greatest plays, revealing not just the elements in the play, but the history of the play itself. What sparked the creation of each of these works? Where did Shakespeare get his plots, and what cultural, political and religious factors influenced his writing? Why has this body of work endured so thoroughly? What, in the end, makes Shakespeare so great?
Publisher
Reality Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Features include: The Madness of Sherlock Holmes; The Extraordinary Voyages of Jules Verne: An Odyssey from the Sea to the Air, from the Earth to the Moon; The Initiations of Alice in Wonderland: The Looking Glass of Lewis Carroll; Diary of a Vampire, the Legacy of Bram Stoker.
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English
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Discover Hemingway's biography through the eyes of a fellow author and journalist. New York Times bestselling author of Salt, Mark Kurlansky turns his historical eye to the life of Ernest Hemingway. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, “The Importance of Not Being Ernest” shows the huge shadow Hemingway casts.
The perfect gift for writers. By a series of coincidences, Mark Kurlansky's life has always been intertwined with Ernest Hemingway's legend,...
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English
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"A writer studies a famous work of art and finds herself and her own cultural moment revealed at its heart. Jeannie Marshall lived in Rome for ten years without visiting the Sistine Chapel: she didn't want to have a superficial experience of the frescos, but she wasn't sure how, amidst the crowds of tour groups and the noise of pop culture allusions, she could have anything but. What's more, she wondered what this very old, very Catholic art, created...
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