Melvyn Bragg's first ever memoir - an elegiac, intimate account of growing up in post-war Cumbria, which lyrically evokes a vanished world.
Melvyn Bragg Reihenfolge der Bücher
6. Oktober 1939
Melvyn Bragg ist ein produktiver englischer Autor, der vielleicht am besten für seine Arbeit an der Sendung The South Bank Show bekannt ist. Er ist ein vielseitiger Schriftsteller, der Romane, Sachbücher und Drehbücher verfasst und oft an biografischen Dramen mitwirkte. Seine Schriften behandeln Themen, die mit Kunst und Kultur verbunden sind, und spiegeln sein breites Engagement in diesen Bereichen wider. Viele seiner Erzählungen schöpfen aus persönlichen Erfahrungen, wie sein autobiografischer Roman aus dem Jahr 2008 zeigt.
- 2022
- 2019
Love Without End
- 320 Seiten
- 12 Lesestunden
A profoundly thought-provoking, moving novel that breathes fresh life into one of history's most remarkable and enduring love stories.
- 2017
Historical introduction to William Tyndale and his continuing influence on the world and how we see it.
- 2015
Now is the Time
- 368 Seiten
- 13 Lesestunden
A thrilling fictional recreation of the biggest rebellion in English history - the so-called Peasants' Revolt.
- 2014
Grace and Mary
- 249 Seiten
- 9 Lesestunden
By 'quite simply one of the best writers we have' (Sunday Telegraph), a profoundly moving story spanning three generations.
- 2014
The Adventure Of English
- 368 Seiten
- 13 Lesestunden
Reissued to celebrate Sceptre's 30th anniversary: Melvyn Bragg's bestselling biography of the English language, featuring a new afterword by the author.
- 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.
- 2011
The Book of Books
- 386 Seiten
- 14 Lesestunden
The book of books reveals the extraordinary and still-felt impact of a work created 400 years ago. --from publisher description.
- 2011
The Seventh Seal
- 73 Seiten
- 3 Lesestunden
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.
- 2010
A well-researched and thoughtfully written biography of Richard Burton.
