Blending superbly enacted drama with expert commentary and biography, this series spotlights the principal works of T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Luigi Pirandello, and seven other icons of literary modernism. A separate discussion of their ideas by a panel of eminent contemporary writers and critics rounds out the series, both complementing and unifying it. 11-part series, 53-61 minutes each.

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The Series Includes : Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent | Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment | T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land | Henrik Ibsen: The Master Playwright | James Joyce: Ulysses | Franz Kafka: The Trial | Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain | Luigi Pirandello: In Search of an Author | Marcel Proust: Remembrance of Things Past | Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway | Ten Great Writers: The Seminar

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