1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459441103321

Autore

Baker William <1944->

Titolo

Harold Pinter [[electronic resource] /] / William Baker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2008

ISBN

1-282-87613-9

9786612876134

1-4411-7912-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 p.)

Collana

Writers Lives

Disciplina

822/.914

B

Soggetti

Dramatists, English - 20th century

Poets, English - 20th century

Authors, English - 20th century

Screenwriters - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 140-153) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Growing Up; 2. Ireland, Precarious Existence and Marriage; 3. Early Plays; 4. Success; 5. Turning Points; 6. The 1970's and 1980's; 7. The 1990's and Beyond: Political Engagement; 8. Conclusion: Cancer, the Nobel Prize, Mutations of Mortality, Poetry; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Harold Pinter is one of the most important writers in English of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century. This brief biography offers fresh insights into his life and work, concentrating on the themes, patterns, relationships, ideas and language common to his life and creative output. Placing Pinter's life and work alongside each other, the study illuminates Pinter's vision of society, politics, gender, sex, violence and human relationships. Drawing upon the full-range of his output, his letters, journalism, writings about him, Baker combines a biographical approach with...



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996396409703316

Autore

Lassels Richard <1603?-1668.>

Titolo

The voyage of Italy, or, A compleat journey through Italy [[electronic resource] ] : in two parts : with the characters of the people, and the description of the chief towers, churches, monasteries, tombs, libraries, pallaces, villas, gardens, pictures, statues, and antiquities : as also the interest, government, riches, force, &c. of all the Princes : with introductions concerning travel / / by Richard Lassels .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Paris], : Newly printed at Paris, and are to be sold in London, by John Starkey ..., 1670

Descrizione fisica

[48], 251, [3] 447, [4] p

Altri autori (Persone)

S. W (Simon Wilson)

Soggetti

Italy Description and travel Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in Bodleian Library.

Pt. 2 has title: The voyage of Italy ... Opus posthuman: Corrected & set forth by his old friend and fellow traveller S.W.

Tables of the names of towns: p. [9]-[11], and [1]-[4] at end.

Identified at reel position 962:51 as L464.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0014