Robert Nye Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Shakespeare comes alive through the pen of a writer hailed by Peter Ackroyd as "one of our best living novelists." This rich and wonderful work is celebrated as the most original and provocative novel about the playwright since Anthony Burgess's classic. The story is narrated by Robert Reynolds, known as Pickleherring, who claims to have been an original member of Shakespeare's acting troupe and played iconic female roles. Now, in an attic above a brothel in Restoration England, Pickleherring, an elderly man, sits down to recount the life of his friend and mentor. Despite his age, he recalls every detail and aims to set the record straight using both firsthand and imaginative sources. Readers will uncover theories surrounding Shakespeare that have emerged over the centuries: Did he write his own plays? Who was the Dark Lady of the sonnets? Did he die a Catholic? What happened during his so-called lost years? What were his last words? Was he ever in love? Each chapter reveals a blend of speculation and fact, bringing us closer to the complex and vibrant man behind the legend. Robert Nye delivers a bawdy, language-rich exploration of the life and times of the greatest writer, showcasing how alive Shakespeare truly was.

Der preisgekrönte Autor von "Der späte Mr. Shakespeare" porträtiert den Bard, wie man ihn noch nie gesehen hat - durch die Augen seiner Frau, Anne Hathaway, die sieben Jahre nach seinem Tod an ihr Leben mit ihm zurückdenkt und Einblicke in Wills geheime Leben bietet.

Now hailed as an American classic Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankness in modern literature, permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller’s famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which chronicles with unapologetic gusto the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s. Tropic of Cancer is now considered, as Norman Mailer said, "one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century."

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!