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Melvyn Bragg

    6. október 1939

    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.

    Melvyn Bragg
    The Adventure Of English
    For Want of a Nail
    Rich: The Life of Richard Burton
    12 Books that Changed the World
    The Seventh Seal
    Velikáni výtvarného umění
    • 2022

      Melvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which lyrically evokes a vanished world.

      Back in the Day
    • 2019

      Love Without End

      • 320 stránok
      • 12 hodin čítania
      3,3(109)Ohodnotiť

      A profoundly thought-provoking, moving novel that breathes fresh life into one of history's most remarkable and enduring love stories.

      Love Without End
    • 2017

      Historical introduction to William Tyndale and his continuing influence on the world and how we see it.

      William Tyndale
    • 2015

      Now is the Time

      • 368 stránok
      • 13 hodin čítania

      A thrilling fictional recreation of the biggest rebellion in English history - the so-called Peasants' Revolt.

      Now is the Time
    • 2014

      Grace and Mary

      • 249 stránok
      • 9 hodin čítania
      3,8(33)Ohodnotiť

      By 'quite simply one of the best writers we have' (Sunday Telegraph), a profoundly moving story spanning three generations.

      Grace and Mary
    • 2014

      The Adventure Of English

      • 368 stránok
      • 13 hodin čítania
      4,2(10)Ohodnotiť

      Reissued to celebrate Sceptre's 30th anniversary: Melvyn Bragg's bestselling biography of the English language, featuring a new afterword by the author.

      The Adventure Of English
    • 2011

      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.

      The Adventure of English. The Biography of a Language
    • 2011

      The Book of Books

      • 386 stránok
      • 14 hodin čítania
      3,3(180)Ohodnotiť

      The book of books reveals the extraordinary and still-felt impact of a work created 400 years ago. --from publisher description.

      The Book of Books
    • 2011

      The Seventh Seal

      • 73 stránok
      • 3 hodiny čítania
      3,3(10)Ohodnotiť

      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.

      The Seventh Seal
    • 2010