This comprehensive series—compiled in part from the extensive archives of the BBC—profiles 13 giants of 20th-century fiction and the influences that shaped their work. Excerpts from personal diaries, footage never before viewed by American audiences, remembrances of contemporaries, and comments by literary experts offer insight into the creative psyche of each writer. 13-part series, 50 minutes each.

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The Series Includes : F. Scott Fitzgerald | Raymond Carver | Ernest Hemingway | D. H. Lawrence | James Joyce | George Orwell | Dylan Thomas | E. M. Forster | William Golding | James Baldwin | Virginia Woolf | Vladimir Nabokov | Bertolt Brecht

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		Sophocles: The Theban Plays The three Theban plays-Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone-tell the story of Oedipus and his family: of how the great King of Thebes was destroyed after he learned his true identity, of his mysterious death years later at Colonus, and ...(more details)		VHS $539.85 DVD $539.85 DVD + 3-Year Streaming $809.78 3-Year Streaming $539.85
		Arthur Miller and The Crucible In the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy set up the Un-American Activities Committee to combat the growing "threat" of communism in the U.S. Playwright Arthur Miller was one of many writers summoned to testify at this political witch-hunt. Miller, who w...(more details)		VHS $99.95 DVD $99.95 DVD + 3-Year Streaming $149.93 3-Year Streaming $99.95
		In Context: To Kill a Mockingbird In Monroeville, Alabama, Harper Lee's model for Maycomb, To Kill a Mockingbird is celebrated as a tribute to Southern life. This hard-edged program juxtaposes white and black experiences in the racially segregated South of the 1930s-1960s to deepen t...(more details)		VHS $149.95 DVD $149.95 DVD + 3-Year Streaming $224.93 3-Year Streaming $149.95
		The Power of Speech As Maya Angelou points out in The Power of Speech, "If the words and delivery are powerful, they echo down the centuries." To emphasize the point, Angelou and other writers and orators examine the moving oratory of 14th-century tax protester John Bal...(more details)		VHS $99.95 DVD $99.95 DVD + 3-Year Streaming $149.93 3-Year Streaming $99.95
		Ancient Greek Heroes: Myth and Modern Vision This lavishly produced two-part series offers fresh interpretations of the Jason and Odysseus stories, drawing parallels between the travails of these mythical heroes and the complexities of 21st-century Western society. Jason's voyage becomes an exp...(more details)		VHS $299.90 DVD $299.90 DVD + 3-Year Streaming $449.85 3-Year Streaming $299.90

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