![]() ![]() With erudition lightly carried, Garber illumines the overarching patterns and lush details of the plays, closely attentive to what matters most in Shakespeare: language, theme, plot, and character. In chronological sequence, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to The Two Noble Kinsmen. ![]() Richly informed by Shakespeare scholarship of the latter half of the twentieth century, this book offers passionate and revealing readings of all thirty-eight of Shakespeare’s plays. In Shakespeare After All Marjorie Garber – professor of English and director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University – gives us a magisterial work of criticism, authoritative and engaging, based on her hugely popular lectures courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years. Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare After All (New York: Random House, 2008) ![]()
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He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England. pulling no punches on the path to truth, but it always finds the capacity for grace and joy." – Esquire, "Best Memoirs of the Year" A TIME Must-Read Book of the Year * A Rolling Stone Top Culture Pick * A Publishers Weekly Best Memoir of the Season * A Buzzfeed Book Pick * A Goodreads Readers' Most Anticipated Book * A Chicago Tribune Book Pick * A Book You Should Read * A Los Angeles Times Book to Add to Your Reading List * An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Month Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER Winner of the New England Book Award for Nonfiction "The best of what memoir can accomplish. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Uhtred of Bebbanburg's mind is as sharp as his sword.Ī thorn in the side of the priests and nobles who shape his fate, this Saxon raised by Vikings is torn between the life he loves and the cause he has sworn to serve. It will leave him trapped with no hope of escape. The Lords of the North (By: Bernard Cornwell) published: June, 2006 ISBN: Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon. Still, he has matched such men before.Then Uhtred suffers a betrayal to rival the treachery that deprived him of his birthright. He wants his treacherous uncle to pay for taking them.Heading north with his lover, former nun Hild, he finds chaos as the Vikings battle among themselves to consolidate their hold on the region.Īt the heart of it are men from Uhtred's past - Sven the One-Eyed and Kjartan the Cruel, men of vicious reputation. He wants the land and castle that is his. THE LORDS OF THE NORTH is the third book in the series.Uhtred wants revenge. *A brand new companion to the Last Kingdom series, Uhtred's Feast, is available to pre-order now*BBC2 and Netflix series THE LAST KINGDOM is based on Bernard Cornwell's bestselling novels on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. ![]() ![]() ![]() Taking advantage of the Patrons’ brutal, internecine war for power and an imminent invasion from outside, Commoners see an opportunity to overthrow their oppressors. For a century, Commoners like their mother have been forced to serve the ruling Patrons, like their general father. ![]() Reunion with her twin, Bettany, and their sister, Amaya, brings both joy and horrifically unforeseen consequences. ![]() The kinky-haired, dark-brown–skinned girl successfully navigates palace intrigues that threaten the safety of both her own family and golden-skinned Kal, but competing in the provinces, on tour for Gargaron, raises the stakes. Jes runs the game of Fives for ruthless Lord Gargaron, the Patron responsible for tearing her family apart her winnings support her mother and sisters in hiding-but at the price of beating Kal, whom she loves. ![]() |