Robert Nye was een Engelse schrijver, toneelschrijver en dichter wiens werk de brug sloeg tussen kinderliteratuur en diepgaande volwassenenthema's. Hij bezat een uniek talent voor het herinterpreteren van klassieke verhalen, met name in zijn geprezen versie van Beowulf. Nye's poëzie wordt geprezen om zijn onderscheidende stem, wat hem erkenning opleverde als een van de meest interessante dichters van zijn generatie, in staat om lezers te boeien met een stijl die verschilt van die van zijn tijdgenoten.
A half century after Shakespeare has departed, an old actor who claims to be an original member of the Bard's acting troupe sits down in an attic to write and set the record straight about his friend and mentor.
A penniless and as yet unpublished writer, Henry Miller arrived in Paris in 1930. Leaving behind a disintegrating marriage and an unhappy career in America, he threw himself into the low-life of Bohemian Paris with unwavering gusto.
He comes out of the darkness, moving in on his victims in deadly silence. When he leaves, a trail of blood is all that remains. He is a monster, Grendel, and all who know of him live in fear. Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, knows something must be done to stop Grendel. But who will guard the great hall he has built, where so many men have lost their lives to the monster while keeping watch? Only one man dares to stand up to Grendel's fury --Beowulf.
In gezelschap van een vriend, twaalf meisjes en een aantal dieren trekt Dr. Faust over de Alpen naar Rome om te proberen zijn lot te keren.
Irascible and still lecherous at age 81, Sir John Falstaff, one of Shakespeareís greatest characters, spins out these memoirs as an antidote to legend, and in so doing manages to recreate his own. Set in an England that was earthy, violent, superstitious, and brimming with a new sense of national purpose, FALSTAFF brings to life not only the man himself but the whole Elizabethan era. Here we see what history and the Bard overlooked or purposely left out of his plays: what really happened that celebrated night when Falstaff and Justice Shallow heard the chimes at midnight; who killed Hotspur; how many men really fell at Agincourt; what actually transpired at the coronation of Henry V (ìHarry the Prigî) and much, much more!
