Melvyn Bragg je plodný anglický autor, najviac známy svojou prácou na televíznom programe The South Bank Show. Jeho literárne dielo zahŕňa beletriu aj non-fiction, ako aj scenáre pre televíziu a film, kde často spolupracoval s Kenom Russellom na životopisných drámach. Vyznačuje sa hlbokým záujmom o umenie a kultúru, čo sa odráža v jeho rozsiahlej tvorbe. Jeho romány často čerpajú z osobných skúseností, ako dokazuje jeho autobiografický román z roku 2008.
Ilustrovaný průvodce životy a díly nejslavnějších malířů. Sandro Botticelli Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Buonarroti Raffael Tizian Peter Paul Rubens Frans Hals Anthonis van Dyck Rembrandt van Rijn Johannes Vermeer Francisco de Goya William Blake Caspar David Friedrich J. M. W. Turner John Constable Edouard Manet Edgar Degas Claude Monet Pierre Auguste Renoir Georges Seurat
The Seventh Seal is probably Bergman's best-known work and the film that most clearly bears the director's unmistakeable signature. The opening scene sets the tone: a stony beach under a leaden sky, the knight alone with his thoughts, then the approach of black-clad Death, whom the knight invites to play a game of chess. Bergman's medieval allegory of faith and doubt is dark with the horrors of witch-burnings and the plague. But it is also shot through with bright flashes of peace and joy, symbolised in the milk and wild strawberries offered to the knight by an innocent family of actors. In his compelling appreciation, Melvyn Bragg describes his own first encounter as a student with this extraordinary film, and how it revealed to him another cinema, quite different from the Hollywood he had grown up with. He recounts too his later meeting with Bergman himself, and how the marks of the director's powerful personality are everywhere in this troubling and inspiring masterpiece.
Throughout history there have been moments of vital importance that have taken place not on the battlefield, or in the palaces of power, or even in the violence of nature, but between the pages of a book. Here are famous books by Darwin, Newton and Shakespeare plus Marie Stopes, Mary Wollstonecraft, and the rules to an obscure ball game ...
A well-researched and thoughtfully written biography of Richard Burton.
'A vivid and totally original imagination' Scotsman
Reissued to celebrate Sceptre's 30th anniversary: Melvyn Bragg's bestselling biography of the English language, featuring a new afterword by the author.
Melvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which lyrically evokes a vanished world.
A history of the English language traces its evolution from a Germanic dialect around 500 A.D. to its modern form, noting the influence of such groups and individuals as early Anglo-Saxon tribes, Alfred the Great, and William Shakespeare.
A fascinating insight to a selection of the show's best episodes, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the popular Radio 4 programme.
The much-praised third part of 'a monumental series' (Sunday Times) by an 'aristocrat of English fiction' (Sunday Telegraph)