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Documentary. Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was the first woman to receive an honorary degree from Yale and to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Best known for novels such as The Age of Innocence, The House of...
This documentary, narrated by Stephen Fry, tells the story of America and Europe’s love of Russian literature and introduces audiences to a new generation of Russian writers. With readings by host Stephen...
A conversation with John Updike’s biographer, Adam Begley, recorded for a Radio Open Source podcast. Begley talks about Updike’s Pennsylvania boyhood, his wives and lovers north of Boston, his children,...
In the northern Philippine province of Luzon, a law-school dropout commits a horrific double murder; a gentle family man takes the fall and receives a life sentence, leaving behind a wife and two kids. A...
Best known for groundbreaking novels such as "The Unfortunates" and "Christy Malry’s Own Double-Entry", B.S. Johnson was also the director of a number of films that have been out of circulation for...
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,...
1969 film adaptation of Dostoevsky’s novel. The Ruscico DVD release is a three disc set which includes the fifty minute on-set documentary A FEW DAYS OF ONE FILM. The release includes English language...
Based on the short story ‘Strange Event in the Life of Schalcken the Painter’ by Sheridan Le Fanu, this programme was originally shown in the Omnibus strand on BBC 2 during Christmas 1979. The story...
Documentary about Scottish poet Robert Burns, presented by David Hayman, who explores Burns’ life from his childhood to his rise to fame throughout the nation. The programme also includes a section in...
This new, third edition of the electronic version of the Anglo-Saxon epic ‘Beowulf’ supersedes previous CD-ROM-based editions. It contains higher resolution images of all 70 folios, over 130 ultraviolet...
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