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2) Iris
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Adapted from the memoirs of literary critic John Bayley, the film recounts his courtship of and long marriage to British novelist Iris Murdoch. The scenario tacks back and forth from the young Iris--ready to seduce one and all with her coy command of words and sex appeal--to the elder Iris--slowly giving way to the cruel erasure of Alzheimer's.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A biography of the author of Wide Sargasso Sea examines her early years in the Caribbean as well as how her experiences with extreme poverty, alcohol, and drug dependency informed her writing.
Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly brilliant novels that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Reexamines the life of late eighteenth-century author Jane Austen, discussing her relationship with her sister Cassandra, and her reputed love affair in the summer of 1801, and revealing some of the secrets the Austen family struggled for so long to conceal.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
David Suchet, TV’s Poirot, has spent more of his life acting out the plots and dramas created by Agatha Christie than anyone else in the world. Suchet is embarking on a journey to learn more about the woman who created Poirot and whose books remain outsold only by Shakespeare and the Bible. Suchet’s journey takes him to the places Christie lived, the landscapes that inspired her and to meetings with people who knew the woman behind the fame and...
Author
Series
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The eighth entry in the acclaimed Antonia Darcy and Major Payne mystery series offers a modern twist on Agatha Christie's most famous whodunit, And Then There Were NoneDetective story writer Antonia Darcy and her husband Hugh Payne are asked to travel to Devon in order to prevent a murder on Sphinx Island, but they are far from enthusiastic as they suspect an elaborate joke. And when they hear that one of the house party guests is Romaine Garrison-Gore,...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When Agatha Christie, the so-called 'Queen of Crime', disappeared from her home in Sunningdale in Berkshire for eleven days on 3 December 1927, the whole nation held its breath. This work explains, in the light of scientific knowledge, her behaviour during that troubled time.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was "just" an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passions and, as Lucy Worsley says, "She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern." She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness. So why--despite all the evidence to the...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Previously unpublished illustrations, a revelation of the identity of the mystery lover Jane Austen met in Devon in 1902, and a groundbreaking explanation of her final illness make this a must-read for Austenites Jane Austen is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in the English literary canon, and recent film and television adaptations of her works have brought them to a new audience almost 200 years after her untimely death. Yet much remains...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
A mystery novel that casts Jane Austen as a sleuth who is called upon to investigate the suspicious death of the Earl of Scargrave, but the matter becomes urgent when the widow is accused of orchestrating her husband's death because of her love for his nephew.
15) Jane Austen
Author
Series
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
There's something about Jane...
Jane Austen lived only just into her forties, never married, never had children, lived all her life in the south of England and rarely strayed far from the genteel and orthodox social circle into which she was born. She completed only six novels, and achieved little fame in her lifetime.
Yet 200-years after her death, she remains one of our most revered writers, and one of the most regularly adapted for television...
17) Elegy for Iris
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
A tribute to author Iris Murdoch, now stricken with Alzheimer's disease, written by her husband of over forty years, in which he discusses their passionate love relationship and traces the progression of her affliction.
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