Met bijdragen van Hanneke `t Hart, Maarten `t Hart, Anton Korteweg en Karel van het Reve. Samengesteld door Eva Biesheuvel-Gutlich en Tilly Hermans.

From Neil MacGregor, the acclaimed creator of A History of the World in 100 Objects and the Director of the British Museum, comes a unique, enthralling exploration of the age of William Shakespeare to accompany a new BBC Radio 4 series.Shakespeare lived through a pivotal period in human history. With the discovery of the New World, the horizons of Old Europe were expanding dramatically - and long-cherished certainties were crumbling. Life was exhilaratingly uncertain. What were Londoners thinking when they went to see Shakespeare's plays? What was it like living in their world? Here Neil MacGregor looks at twenty objects from Shakespeare's life and times, and uncovers the fascinating stories behind them. The objects themselves range from the grand (such as the hoard of gold coins that make up the Salcombe treasure) to the very humble, like the battered trunk and worn garments of an unknown pedlar. But in each case, they allow MacGregor to explore issues as diverse as piracy and Islam, Catholicism and disguise. MacGregor weaves the histories of objects into the words of Shakespeare's plays themselves to suggest to us where his ideas about religion, national identity, the history of England and the world, human nature itself, may have come from. The result is a fresh and thrilling evocation of Shakespeare's world.

This book includes a biography of W.B. Yeats and a collection of his poetry.

Wolfgang Amade Mozart 1756-1791 aan de hand van authentieke documenten wordt in dit boek een ontroerend beeld geschetst van zijn korte dramatische leven.

Biografie van de legendarische 'boeienkoning' Houdini (1874-1926), met uitvoerige aandacht voor zowel zijn carrière als illusionist als zijn betrokkenheid bij het spiritisme aan het begin van de twintigste eeuw. William Kalush en Larry Sloman schetsen met Houdini een intrigerend beeld van het leven van deze legendarische persoon. Daarbij wordt natuurlijk uitgebreid aandacht besteed aan al zijn ontsnappingen en illusies, waarvan sommige nog steeds door illusionisten worden gebruikt. De auteurs laten echter zien dat niet alleen zijn trucs leidden tot het grote succes, maar ook dat er enkele grote organisaties achter de ontsnappingskunstenaar stonden

The author chronicles the life of the French-Algerian writer--his work on a World War II resistance newspaper, his relationships with many women, his writer's search of a truer voice, and more--alongside her own experience following in his footsteps, meeting his loved ones, and trying to enter his solitude.

Acclaimed literary biographer Benita Eisler sheds new light on the many roles, triumphs, and losses that together constituted Sand's overwhelming presence. The author of nearly ninety novels, twenty-thousand letters and thousands of pages of autobiographical writings and political commentary, how did Sand also have the time to live? As Eisler reveals, hers seems like several lives - literary, political, amorous, and domestic. Earlier biographers have either cast Sand as a feminist icon or blurred her in the dynamic of "child of the century." Naked in the Marketplace captures Sand's essence - the outsized public persona and the inner woman, along with the unique and irreplaceable role she played in the history of her times.

Persoonlijk getint relaas van met name de Amerikaanse tournees van de Britse popzanger (1940-1980).

In 1923, a thirty-four year old Adolf Hitler was in prison after taking part in an unsuccessful putsch to overthrow the German government. Within a decade, he was the most powerful man in Europe. As Germany's leader, Hitler delivered full employment and what appeared to be a booming economy to the nation -- while Britain was suffering punishing levels of unemployment with no real welfare benefits. His popularity seemed to know no bounds; the slow deprivation of civil freedoms and rights to Jews did not initially displease all Germans, and the full extent of Nazi anti-Semitic extermination plans were incredible to many even within their own movement -- let alone to the outside world -- when they began to be put into operation during the early 1940s. Internationally, too, Hitler's triumphs were extraordinary, and soon the Rhineland, Sudetenland and Austria fell to the German army, who suffered barely a casualty. By 1940, there was no doubt that Hitler was Europe's master. But there was another story -- and in this utterly compelling short biography, acclaimed writer A.N. Wilson positions Hitler as a man who not only embodied the excesses of the Third Reich but one who also represented the mediocrity of what optimists called 'the Century of the Common Man'. For all the limitations of his personal accomplishments -- as the child of a poverty stricken family, with no great educational, military or moral qualifications for leadership -- Hitler was able, by remarkable energy, superbly choreographed rallies and electrifying rhetoric, to become a second Napoleon. In a field populated with lengthy tomes, Wilson's brief, insightful portrait offers a compelling introduction to a man who continues to fascinate and appal.