Overview :The play opens in 1515, on the French king's return from fighting the Swiss, and takes us to his death in 1547. Along the way, we meet not o... Read More
Overview :Francis X. Bushman had a life like no other. Most people remember him today as the villain, Messala, in the first full-length version of Ben... Read More
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Overview :This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This ... Read More
Overview :1737: Letter from one William Cowper, "In 1708 ...., there was discovered a large vault... the entire skeleton of a man...., with a book, pa... Read More
Overview :1579. Famed English privateer Francis Drake navigates the Pacific Northwest on a clandestine search for the fabled Northwest Passage, aided ... Read More
Overview :Sophocles, along with Aeschylus and Euripides, is considered one of three important ancient Greek tragedians. Writing during the 5th century... Read More
Overview :A gripping murder mystery and a profound meditation on the nature of evilThe scene is 1930s India during the waning days of British coloniza... Read More
Overview :A tragicomic novel of unrequited love by "one of the finest and most remarkable of English novelists of our time." (The Scotsman) Antonio Va... Read More