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- A memoir of my former self : a life in writing / by Mantel, Hilary,1952-2022,author.; Pearson, Nicholas(Editor),editor.;
"In addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. "Ink is a generative fluid," she explains. "If you don't mean your words to breed consequences, don't write at all." A Memoir of My Former Self collects the finest of this writing over four decades. Her subjects are wide-ranging, sharply observed, and beautifully rendered. She discusses nationalism and her own sense of belonging; our dream life popping into our conscious life; the mythic legacy of Princess Diana; the many themes that feed into her novels--revolutionary France, psychics, Tudor England; and other novelists, from Jane Austen to V.S. Naipaul. She writes about her father and the man who replaced him; she writes fiercely and heartbreakingly about the battles with her health that she endured as a young woman, and the stifling years she found herself living in Saudi Arabia. Here, too, is her legendary essay "Royal Bodies," on our endless fascination with the current royal family. From her unusual childhood to her all-consuming interest in Thomas Cromwell that grew into the Wolf Hall trilogy, A Memoir of My Former Self reveals the shape of Hilary Mantel's life in her own luminous words, through "messages from people I used to be." Filled with her singular wit and wisdom, it is essential reading from one of our greatest writers."--- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022.; Authors, English;
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- Macbeth [videorecording] / by Annis, Francesca,1945-; Archard, Bernard,1916-2008.; Bayler, Terence,actor.; Braunsberg, Andrew,film producer.; Bromley, Sydney,1909-1987.; Chase, Stephan,1947-; Davis, Noel,1927-2002.; Finch, Jon,1941-2012,actor.; Hefner, Hugh M.(Hugh Marston),1926-film producer.; Laurence, Andrew,actor.; Pearson, Richard,1918-2011.; Polanski, Roman,screenwriter,film director.; Selby, Nicholas,1925-; Shakespeare, William,1564-1616.Macbeth.Videorecording.; Shaw, Martin,1945-; Shelley, Paul,1942-; Stride, John,1936-; Tynan, Kenneth,1927-1980,screenwriter.; Criterion Collection (Firm);
Director of photography, Gil Taylor ; production designer, Wilfrid Shingleton ; costume designer, Anthony Mendleson ; music by The Third Ear Band ; editor, Alistair McIntyre ; art director, Fred Carter ; fight director, William Hobbs ; choreographer, Sally Gilpin.Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, John Stride, Nicholas Selby, Terence Bayler, Stephan Chase, Paul Shelley, Noel Davis, Richard Pearson, Andrew Laurence, Bernard Archard.Roman Polanski imbues his unflinchingly violent adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy of ruthless ambition and murder in medieval Scotland with grit and dramatic intensity. Jon Finch and Francesca Annis star as a decorated warrior rising in the ranks and his driven wife, scheming together to take the throne by any means.R.DVD, widescreen (2.35:1); 2.0 stereo.- Subjects: Macbeth, King of Scotland, active 11th century; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Feature films.; Murder; Regicides;
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