Could Dr. Frankenstein's machine ever animate a body?

Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.

The book's outrageous protagonist, Ignatius Reilly, is an icon of contemporary American fiction. Now Ken and Thelma sheds new light on the tragic life story of the author, known as 'Ken' to his friends.

One of the judges who awarded him the Booker Prize described Barnes as "an unparalleled magus of the heart." This book confirms that opinion.

In Ignatius Rising, René Pol Nevils and Deborah George Hardy present the first biography of Toole, drawing upon scores of interviews with contemporaries of the writer and acquaintances of his influencing mother, Thelma, as well as ...

The long-awaited biography of John Kennedy Toole ("A Confederacy of Dunces"), whose fascinating life and tragic death is one of the most amazing publishingstories in American literature.

... FLETCHER , JOHN , an English dramatic poet , the associate of Francis Beaumont in author- ship , born in 1576 , died by the plague in 1625 . His father , Dr. Richard Fletcher , was suc- cessively bishop of Bristol , Worcester , and ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

... FLETCHER , JOHN , an English dramatic poet , the associate of Francis Beaumont in author- ship , born in 1576 , died by the plague in 1625 . His father , Dr. Richard Fletcher , was suc- cessively bishop of Bristol , Worcester , and ...

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