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Historian Amanda Vickery traces the rise in popularity of Jane Austen, from a little-read Regency novelist to a global brand.
John Wain discusses the evolution of his novels from ‘Hurry on Down’ to ‘A Winter in the Hills’. He also deals with his role as Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1973 to 1978.
Classic 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel starring Boris Karloff. The DVD also includes the 1935 sequel, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN in which Elsa Lanchester plays the bride as well as Shelley herself.
A BBC series, written and presented by Professor Christopher Frayling, investigating the origins of our popular gothic novels. These best-selling books have thrived in industries such as film,...
Introducesthe Dorset environment in which Thomas Hardy grew up and which had such a fundamental effect on his novels.
This full-cast dramatisation of Elizabeth Gaskell’s "tale of Manchester life" is set in the "hungry forties" of the 19th century when a series of bad harvests placed a heavy tax burden on workers....
Looks at the life and works of Thomas Hardy. The film captures the atmosphere and moods of Wessex - the landscape and places which inspired Hardy’s novels and poems.The narrator is Gerald Pitman, ‘Dorset...
Radio programme. An illustrated talk by Mark Lawson about the plays, novels, poems and music inspired by Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in the New England seaport of Salem, Massachusetts. Steeped in the history of his Puritan forebears and at the same time a part of the astonishing development of the new American...
Film about the American novelist Philip Roth, which explores his career, from Goodbye, Columbus, through the scandalous success of Portnoy’s Complaint, and the later novels suych as Sabbath’s Theatre,...
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