This is an extension of my channel @greatartexplained and follows the same ideas. Except it is about literature. Fifteen minutes, clear concise language, no …
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My book Great Art Explained is ready to order now worldwide Spain Also available in many other countries Latin and Central America India now, China and Korea soon War and Peace is a famously long book, spanning around 1,400 pages with 559 characters. Written by Leo Tolstoy in the mid-19th century, it began as a short novel about a failed revolutionary in the unsuccessful Decembrist Revolt of 1825.
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My book is ready fro pre-order now at all the usual places such as here My other channel, Great Art Explained here / Co-written by James from the brilliant channel The Tempest opens with a raging storm conjured up by the exiled Duke of Milan, Prospero, who has lived on a remote island with his daughter Miranda for twelve years.
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My other channel, Great Art Explained here When Mary Shelley initially conceived the plot of Frankenstein, she was still only 18-years old. But she had already lost a child, a daughter who died just two weeks after she was born.
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My other channel, Great Art Explained here Despite being arguably, the most famous writer of all time, William Shakespeare is still a widely misunderstood figure. Today, he is often viewed as the property of the cultural elite, and his work is often approached out of obligation rather than desire. But Shakespeare was a populist, and his plays were written first and foremost to entertain audiences – of all kinds.
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My other channel, Great Art Explained here In a post-truth society, is George Orwell’s 1984 even more important now than ever? It is a book that in politics has been co-opted by both the left and the right, with the term "Orwellian" being used and misused in the clamour for power. In some way the novel is about the future, but it is also about the present. Even Orwell who wrote the book in 1948 said it should be seen not as a prediction... but as a warning.
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My other channel, Great Art Explained here The King James Bible is an intensely political work, and up until the 17th century, translating the Bible into English was a dangerous act, done in secret, and punishable by death. Then in 1604, King James I of England authorised a new translation of the Bible, with the intention to clarify religious differences, but also to solidify his power and supremacy.
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The first 500 people to click my link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare My other channel, Great Art Explained here The American writer, James Baldwin was born one hundred years ago today. He was by any stretch of the imagination, one of the most radical and important voices of the 20th century. He was the outspoken grandson of a slave, who bore witness to the consequences of American racial strife.
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My other channel, Great Art Explained here or if you prefer a one-off donation “Shall [we] call him Artist or Genius—or Mystic—or Madman? Probably he is all.” The English artist and poet William Blake was 32 years old when the citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison, signalling the start of the French Revolution. For Blake, the revolution was a powerful source of inspiration.
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My other channel, Great Art Explained here or if you prefer a one-off donation In 1954, J.R.R. Tolkien was 62 years old and had just spent the last 16 years working industriously on a book. It was now time to release it into the world and he was very nervous. And he should have been - because no-one had seen anything quite like The Lord of the Rings before.
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or if you prefer a one-off donation The Little Prince begins with an account of how the pilot drew a picture when he was a child. His picture — he called it Drawing N°1 — shows an elephant swallowed by a boa constrictor — perfectly logical to him- but to adults it was just a drawing of a hat and they roundly mocked him.
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or if you prefer a one-off donation Herman Melville, the author of Moby-Dick, worked on a whaling ship as a harpoonist, literally at the sharp end of that gruesome business. And he took those experiences of life at sea and combined them with a love of William Shakespeare and the King James bible, to create a great American novel about obsession and compulsion.
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or if you prefer a one-off donation My other channel The popularity of Emily Dickinson's poetry has always been bound up with interest in her unconventional life. In her lifetime she was the focus of town gossip and this speculation continues today: about her mental health, her beliefs and her sexuality.
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or if you prefer a one-off donation This is a story about the American Dream. No other decade defined America like the 1920s. The country was coming into its own and fulfilling its promise of freedom and prosperity, but already the dream was showing its cracks, and the decade that followed would test America to its very core. One book would serve as a prophetic warning to its audience and still offer a glimmer of hope about the American ideal.
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or if you prefer a one-off donation As internet users, we all understand the expression “Going Down a Rabbit Hole”, which comes from the much-loved book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The book famously begins when the main character, Alice, follows a white rabbit underground, and finds herself going deeper and deeper into a strange world - somewhere in which normal social rules, and even laws of physics, are suspended.
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or if you prefer a one-off donation This video is dedicated to my great friends, and Joyce aficionado's Jean and Derry O'Sullivan. Even before James Joyce’s Ulysses was published it was causing trouble. Short excerpts appeared in a review magazine, and the US postal service claiming it was pornography refused to deliver the magazines and then burnt all the copies.
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