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Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
Category: Biography | Series: Eminent Lives Ser.
William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal ...Show more
Shakespeare - Anthony Burgess by Burgess A
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Vintage Lives Ser.
Among Shakespear's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess. He breathes life into Shakespear the man and invigorates his times. His portrait of the age builds upon an almost personal tenderness for Shakespear and his contemporaries ( ...Show more
Shakespeare: The World as a Stage by Bill Bryson
Category: Travel | Series: Eminent Lives Ser.
In this much anticipated addition to the Eminent Lives series, Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet and playwright. Shakespeare's life, despite the scrutiny of generations of biographers and sc ...Show more
Shostakovich by Eric Roseberry
Category: Music SPECIALS | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.
This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer's life.
Sibelius by David Burnett James
Category: Music SPECIALS | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.
This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer's life.
Sidney Reilly - Master Spy by Benny Morris
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A revealing biography of Sidney Reilly, the early twentieth-century virtuoso of espionage "Mr. Morris's dogged research . . . lends impressive rigor to this portrait of an often-cryptic figure."--Diane Cole, Wall Street Journal Sidney Reilly (c. 1873-1925) is one of the most colorful and best-known spie ...Show more
Sigmund Freud by Matthew ffytche
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Critical Lives Ser.
Drawing on the latest research, an engaging and nuanced biography of Freud that argues for his continuing relevance. However much his work has been reviled or contested, Sigmund Freud remains one of the most significant thinkers of the last one hundred and fifty years. He founded psychoanalysis, and hi ...Show more
Sir Arthur Bliss by John Sugden
Category: Music SPECIALS | Series: Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers S.
A series of biographies of great composers which present the subjects against a social background of their times. Each book draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings - and - where they exist - photographs, to build up a complete picture of the composer's life.
So I'm a Spider, So What? the Daily Lives of the Kumoko Sisters, Vol. 5 by Okina Baba; Gratinbird (Artist); Asahiro Kakashi (Artist); Tsukasa Kiryu (Artist); Jenny McKeon McKeon (Translator); Rachel Pierce (Letterer (comics))
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: So I'm a Spider, So What? the Daily Lives of the Kumoko Sisters Ser.
Dear readers on Earth: If you were given 48 hours of freedom, what would you do?
Spinoza: Freedom's Messiah by Ian Buruma
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time Baruch (Benedictus) Spinoza (1632–1677) was a radical free thinker who led a life guided by strong moral principles despite his disbelief in an al ...Show more
Stan Lee - A Life in Comics by Liel Leibovitz
Category: Biography | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a meditation on the deeply Jewish and surprisingly spiritual roots of Stan Lee and Marvel Comics Few artists have had as much of an impact on American popular culture as Stan Lee. The characters he created--Spider-Man and Iron Man, the X-Men and the Fantastic F ...Show more
Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker by David Mikics
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
When he made a movie Kubrick was obsessively focused because he had to find a solution to every problem. ... His movies are about mastery that fails. Perfectly controlled schemes get botched through human error or freak accidents, or hijacked by masculine rage. ... Stanley Kubrick asserted total control ...Show more