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Shakespeare

By BILL , Shakespeare , William;Bryson

Book information

Publisher
Atlas Books;HarperCollins
ISBN
9780061545443, 9780061545436, 0061545430, 0061545449
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
282 kB (288270 bytes)
Series
Eminent lives
Edition
1st ed
Pages
vii, 199 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

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 supposition arranged around scant facts. With his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, and, emulating the style of his travelogues, records episodes in his own research. He celebrates Shakespeare as a writer of unimaginable talent and enormous inventiveness, a coiner of phrases ("vanish into thin air," "foregone conclusion," "one fell swoop") that even today have common currency. His Shakespeare is like no one else's--the beneficiary of Bryson's genial nature, his engaging skepticism, and an unrivaled gift for storytelling.--From publisher description.

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