The (New) Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie

Literature & Fiction

Riley, Dick

History & Criticism

UNKNO

Providing an overview of all aspects of the life and times of the world-famous detective, Riley and McAllister offer interesting and entertaining information about the fictional sleuth. Along with the trivia and information, the authors insert historical background on Victorian England, a short biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and brief synopses of the Holmes stories. Additional chapters cover explanations of rank in the British nobility, drugs used in the era, and the wars mentioned in the stories. Several chapters make forays into understanding the psychology of Holmes, his personality, and his pleasures. One entire chapter reviews the various clubs dedicated to him. A crossword puzzle, a Sherlock Holmes Mystery Map of London, and around 200 black-and-white illustrations, including some from the stories and some of Victorian London, add to the fun.

The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Sherlock Holmes (Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companions)

McAllister, Pam

Reference

Continuum

Includes a summary of each Holmes story and novel, discusses the film adaptations, and offers trivia tidbits

The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Sherlock Holmes

Continuum Intl Pub Group

Includes a summary, period information, possible plot sources, background tidbits, and production details for thirty-six of Shakespeare's plays,

The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Shakespeare

Humor & Entertainment

In the same winning formula as The New Bedside, Bathtub &amp; Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie (more than 300,000 copies sold) and The Bedside, Bathtub &amp; Armchair Companion to Sherlock Holmes (1999), this all-new companion to Shakespeare will present The Bard in a new and exciting way in a new century. For students, scholars, theater lovers, and scholars - nearly everyone! - this book wraps some 400 years of Bardology into a lively and often unexpected package.In their witty and inimitable way, Dick Riley and Pam McAllister examine the whole dramatic canon, play by play, including dramas of disputed authorship. (The long poems and sonnets are also covered.) Included are inside stories on theater and film productions, "alternate" interpretations of the plays, Shakespeare's status around the world, the clubs and societies, the mysterious life - and even the question that has plagued critics almost from the day he put down his quill: whether Shakespeare even wrote the works attributed to him.

The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Shakespeare (Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companions)

Over 400,000 copies sold! If you are a mystery buff, an Agatha Christie fan, an occasional Christie reader or an acquaintance of any of the above, this book is for you and all your fortunate friends The Bedside, Bathtub &amp; Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie, on the 25th anniversary of Agatha Christie's death, continues as a grand salute to the queen of mysteries. It is filled with wonderful and surprising things about her books, her characters, the movies and plays based on them, and Dame Agatha herself. Original contributions by some sixty writers celebrate the Christie touch. Take your pick among thse intriguing features and speculations: -Surviving an English country weekend - if you had the advice of Hercule Poirot - A guide to the Christie poisions, as well as the cruder methods of genteel mayhem - The "other" Agatha Christie who wrote romantic novels - A murder victim's (!) first-person account of a Christie Mystery Weekend - The Hercule Poirot Double-Crostic and other puzzles That's a taste. There's much more - and witty plot summaries of all Christie's novels, plays, and many of her short stories. (But no endings, of course!) This treasury is more than entertainment - it is also a personal reference work for Christie fans. And there are scores of movie posters, film stills, illustrations and a Christie mystery map, too.

The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie (Bedside Bathtub & Armchair Companions)

British & Irish

Bloomsbury Academic

William Shakespeare brings history to life. His plays take us from the Forum in Rome to the palaces of London and the battlefields of France. He dramatizes the personal and political conflicts that cost Julius Caesar his life, Marc Antony and Cleopatra an empire, and a succession of English kings their thrones.
 Shakespeare's Consuls, Cardinals and Kings sets the historical context for the events portrayed in Shakespeare's major histories. It reviews the sources he used and analyzes how he reshaped that material - often telescoping events and combining characters - to create his dramas. It also offers the insights of later historians about the lives and careers of Julius Caesar, Marc Antony, and the English monarchs King John, Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Richard III and Henry VIII. Designed to give students a deeper understanding and a more enjoyable experience of the history plays, each chapter of Shakespeare's Consuls, Cardinals and Kings focuses on the period and lives portrayed in one of these dramas, and also provides a brief guide to available film and video versions.
 While focusing on the most important of Shakespeare's sources - the Greco-Roman historian Plutarch and the English histories of Raphael Holinshed - Shakespeare's Consuls, Cardinals and Kings also discusses other writers who helped inform Shakespeare's work, from Suetonius, author of The Twelve Caesars, to John Foxe, whose Book of Martyrs memorialized the struggles of English religious reformers.

Shakespeare's Consuls, Cardinals, and Kings: The Real History Behind the Plays

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