2006
1599
By James Shapiro
Paperback
Published 06-Apr-2006
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Presents the history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes, but the course of literature. In this one year, we follow what he reads and writes, what he saw, and who he worked with as he creates four of his most famous plays - "Henry V", "Julius Caesar", "As You Like It", and "Hamlet".
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Untold Stories
By Alan Bennett
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Published 07-Sep-2006
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Postwar
By Tony Judt
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Published 03-Jun-2010
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Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another. This title tells the rich and complex story of how we got from there to here.
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Orientalist
By Tom Reiss
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Published 06-Jul-2006
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Unravels the mysterious life of a man born on the border between West and East, a Jewish man with a passion for the Arab world. This title gives an unexpected picture of the twentieth-century - of the origins of our ideas about race and religious self-definition, and of the roots of modern fanaticism.
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