Format:
Book
Title:
Masterpieces : a decade of Masterpiece theatre / commentary by Alistair Cooke.
Author:
Cooke, Alistair, 1908-2004.
Call Number:
791.4572 Masterpi
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : VNU Books International : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1981.
Description:
236 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Summary:
Alistair Cooke's essays about the history, personalities and literary works that shaped the programs that have appeared on Masterpiece Theatre.
Subjects:
Masterpiece theatre (Television program)
Contents:
I, Claudius -- The six wives of Henry the Eighth -- Elizabeth R -- The first Churchills -- Poldark -- Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen -- Vanity Fair / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Our mutual friend / Charles Dickens -- Dickens of London / Charles Dickens -- The Brown's schooldays / Thomas Hughes -- The Mayor of Casterbridge / Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure / Thomas Hardy -- The spoils of Pynton / Henry James -- The golden bowl / Henry James -- Disraeli -- Pere Goriot / Honore Balzac -- Cousin Bette / Honore Balzac -- Notorious woman / George Sand -- Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert -- Therese Raquin / Emile Zola -- The gambler / Feodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and punishment / Feodor Dostoyevsky -- The possessed / Feodor Dostoyevsky -- Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy -- Resurrection / Leo Tolstoy -- Vienna / Arthur Schnitzler -- Lillie -- Lloyd George -- Mr. Rolls and Mr. Royce -- Shoulder to shoulder -- The Duchess of Duke Street -- Upstairs, downstairs -- Testament of youth / Vera Brittain -- Clouds of witness / Dorothy Sayers -- Murder must advertise / Dorothy Sayers -- The unpleasantness at the Bellona Club -- The nine tailors / Dorothy Sayers -- Five red herrings / Dorothy Sayers -- Cakes and ale / Somerset Maugham -- The little farm / A.E. Coppard and H.E. Bates -- Country matters / A.E. Coppard and H.E. Bates -- Love for Lydia / A.E. Coppard and H.E. Bates -- How green was my valley / Richard Llewellyn -- edward and Mrs. Simpson -- Danger UXB.
ISBN:
0394519078