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201) William Shakespeare
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This book describes the life and achievements of William Shakespeare, from his childhood in Stratford to his acting and writing career in London.
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Woolf is the author of more than fifteen books, and innumerable essays and stories. She also kept a voluminous diary, an astonishing achievement for a writer crippled throughout her life by bouts of mental illness. Today she is honored not only as an innovative novelist and literary critic, indeed, one of the supreme prose writers of the twentieth century, but also as the author of the most brilliantly argued exposition of the female standpoint in...
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On the day of famed writer Alfred Gibson's public funeral, his estranged widow, Dorothea (Dodo), sits alone in her small London apartment, reminiscing about the One and Only. Although caring deeply about his public image as a family man, Alfred's actual relationship with his brood is fraught by his egomaniacal demands and philandering, his career eclipsing everything else. Dodo wishes she could climb onto the page, become one of her husband's protagonists...