1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
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This work presents an intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that...
The Sound and the Fury: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism
William Faulkner and Michael Gorra
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William Faulkner's provocative and enigmatic 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury, is widely...
Unlocking the Church: The Lost Secrets of Victorian Sacred Space
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The Victorians built tens of thousands of churches in the hundred years between 1800 and...
Edward IV
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The reign of King Edward IV occupies a pivotal place in late medieval English history, marking the...
The Portrait of a Lady
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Regarded by many as Henry James's finest work, and a lucid tragedy exploring the distance between...
Word & Image: Art, Books and Design from the National Art Library
Julius Bryant, Elizabeth James and Rowan Watson
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This unique history brings together more than 150 spectacular objects from the National Art...
There Was a Whole Collection Made: Photography from Lester and Betty Guttman
Laura Letinsky and Jessica Moss
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In 2014, the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago received a generous gift from...
A Nautical Story Writer: The Life and Works of Matthew Henry Barker, the Old Sailor
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The fictional nautical story was extremely popular in the period stretching from the mid 1820s to...
Shakespeare in 100 Objects: Treasures from the Victoria and Albert Museum
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Within the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the world's leading museum of...
The Autobiography of a Super-tramp
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William Henry Davies was born in a pub and learnt early in life to rely on his wits and his fists -...