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POPSFour-hundred-year-old Shakespeare book recovered The university hoped to recover the other stolen works, which include a 15th-century manuscript containing a fragment of a poem written by Geoffrey Chaucer, author of "The Canterbury Tales''; an edition of "Beowulf'' printed in 1812; and a book of maps and poetry dating from 1612.
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POPSBest of 40 Years of the Booker Prize I just started reading this a couple of weeks ago. Accidentally dropped it in the ocean on vacation. Bought another copy and am reading it now. So far, I agree that it is a fabulous book. I highly recommend it.
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POPSEric Heuvel's "The Search" I want to order this graphic novel for our library. I think, that it will present the Holocaust in another medium that some students will find more accessible, similar to how they viewed the 9/11 report graphic novel. I am actually having trouble finding out where to order it so maybe someone out there can help with that. It is an interesting review in the NYT and also another interesting example of how the graphic novel is changing. Though, I do questions some things like the graphic novel version of Beowulf or the Odyssey but maybe it's not that much different from the abridged children's version of the Iliad or Alice In Wonderland. I am also fascinated by the fact that it is considered a textbook.
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POPSTop Movies Find out the most top movies, movie overviews, critics review, trailers and many more. www.Netglimse.com
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POPSBeowulf - Digital Actors are Not Actors
"(...)it's got a big ol' epic scope all right, with lots of vistas and gorgeous design and some great huge set-pieces including one hell of a fight with a dragon (I mean that; it's a legitimately great battle scene, perfectly staged and edited). But it also has absolutely horrifying characters, and not just the ones that are supposed to be: time and again, we've seen that mo-cap isn't really up for the rigours of facial expression, but the characters in Beowulf, looking as they do exactly like CG versions of some very familiar actors, represent a new depth in the Uncanny Valley. Anthony Hopkins and Robin Wright Penn are particularly unpleasant to look at, almost photo-realistic in still frames but when they move, their flesh is revealed to be plasticine and eerily smooth, like watching Barbie dolls come alive without human souls." Really like epics and love the Beowulf poem, but really didnt like the film... The images and the actors are too artificial.
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POPSUbisoft Expands Revolutionary Beowulf Movie with New Game The classic English poem is not only getting a movie (with special Real D technology), but Ubisoft is expanding the experience with a video game tie-in. We speak with Ubisoft about working with Robert Zemeckis and Paramount Pictures and why Beowulf is a "dream convergence" project.
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POPSSF Author: Robert Nye
Expansive, sprawling, unruly and oversized - like his stomach and everything about him, the memoirs of the most beloved comic figure in the history of literature take the unsuspecting reader into the world of a character so audacious that, apparently, even the Bard himself could not do him justice. Larger-than-life, irascible and still lecherous at the advanced age of eighty-one, Falstaff recounts these outrageously bawdy tales as an antidote to popular legend that are guaranteed to tell you some things you never thought you needed to know about his life and times. Who killed Hotspur? What really went on at the battle of Agincourt? And what was it that made the wives of Windsor so merry? As we romp through history with this most entertaining of guides, the Middle Ages come alive in a rich tapestry of sights and sounds in another stunning novel from the author of The Late Mr Shakespeare. Falstaff: Being the Acta Domini Johannis Fastolfe, or Life and Valiant Deeds of Sir Jo
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