Made in America

BRYSON, BILL.

McShane, Mike

Travel

HarperCollins, Publishers

Bill Bryson's Shakespeare pairs one of history's most celebrated writers with one of the most popular writers in the English language today. In this elegant, updated, illustrated edition, the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of one of the world's greatest poets are evoked through a series of full-color paintings, drawings, portraits, documents and photographs. Bryson also discusses the recent discoveries of the Cobbe portrait and the remains of Shakespeare's first theatre in Shoreditch. The centuries of mysteries, half-truths and downright lies about Shakespeare are deftly explored, as Bryson draws a picture that includes many aspects of the poet's life, making sense of the man behind the masterpieces. In a journey down the streets of Shakespeare's time, Bryson brings to life the hubbub of Elizabethan England and delights in details of his folios and quartos, poetry and plays. He celebrates the glory of Shakespeare's language and his ceaseless inventiveness, which gave us hundreds of now indispensable phrases, images and words.

SHAKESPEARE (Eminent Lives)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Harpercollins

Paperback. Pub Date: in 1905 06 Pages: 272 in Publisher: HarperPerennial From bestselling author Bill yson comes this compelling short biography of William Shakespeare. our greatest dramatist of poet.Examining centuries of myths. half-truths and downright lies. Bill yson makes sense of the man behind the masterpieces. As he leads us through the crowded streets of Elizabethan England. he ings to life the places and characters that inspired Shakespeare's work. Along the way he delights in the inventiveness of Shakespeare's language. which has given us so many of the indispensable words and phrases we use today. and celeates the Bard's legacy to our literature. culture and history.Drawing together information from a vast array of sources. this is a masterful account of the life and works of William Shakespeare. one of the most famous and most enigmatic people ever to have lived...

Shakespeare: The World as a Stage (Eminent Lives)

Harper-perennial

William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. His Shakespeare is like no one else's—the beneficiary of Bryson's genial nature, his engaging skepticism, and a gift for storytelling unrivaled in our time.

Shakespeare: The World as a Stage

William Collins

Gift quality. Dust jacket has light shelf wear. Includes CD of sonnets. Same day shipping.

Atlas Books

The most venerable learned society in the world, the Royal Society was founded in 1660 and has continued its work promoting and supporting education and research across the vast range of science. In this celebratory volume, Bill Bryson introduces 20 contributions from distinguished writers and Fellows of the Society illustrating the diversity of its work, including Richard Dawkins on Darwin and natural selection, Ian Stewart on the hidden mathematics that rules the world, and Henry Petroski on 19th-century engineers.

Seeing Further

When a native of Iowa returns from England to wander across America's heartland in search of the perfect small town, the result is a string of hilarious anecdotes and biting social commentary

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

Travel Writing

Harper Row Publishers

William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself.
Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, from today's most respected academics to eccentrics like Delia Bacon, an American who developed a firm but unsubstantiated conviction that her namesake, Francis Bacon, was the true author of Shakespeare's plays. Emulating the style of his famous travelogues, Bryson records episodes in his research, including a visit to a bunkerlike room in Washington, D.C., where the world's largest collection of First Folios is housed. 
Bryson celebrates Shakespeare as a writer of unimaginable talent and enormous inventiveness, a coiner of phrases ("vanish into thin air," "foregone conclusion," "one fell swoop") that even today have common currency. His Shakespeare is like no one else's—the beneficiary of Bryson's genial nature, his engaging skepticism, and a gift for storytelling unrivaled in our time.

Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Eminent Lives

“The kind of book Steinbeck might have written if he’d traveled with David Letterman.” —New York magazine
An inspiring and hilarious account of one man’s rediscovery of America and his search for the perfect small town. Following an urge to rediscover his youth, Bill Bryson left his native Des Moines, Iowa, in a journey that would take him across 38 states. Lucky for us, he brought a notebook. With a razor wit and a kind heart, Bryson serves up a colorful tale of boredom, kitsch, and beauty when you least expect it. From Times Square to the Mississippi River to Williamsburg, Virginia, Bryson's keen and hilarious search for the perfect American small town is a journey straight into the heart and soul of America.

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

William Morrow Paperbacks

A portrait of the bard is presented in the style of a travelogue based on interviews with actors, the curator of Shakespeare's Birthplace, and academics, in an account that also shares the author's whimsical recollections of his own adventures in Stratford-upon-Avon. Simultaneous.

HarperAudio

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Made in America

SHAKESPEARE (Eminent Lives)

Shakespeare: The World as a Stage (Eminent Lives)

Shakespeare: The World as a Stage

Shakespeare: The World as a Stage

Seeing Further

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives)

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America

Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives)