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Stories from Shakespeare written by David Timson performed by Juliet Stevenson on Audio CD (Abridged)

Stories from Shakespeare written by David Timson performed by Juliet Stevenson on Audio CD (Abridged)£14.99

Here are the stories of 13 key Shakespeare plays: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, King Lear, Richard III, Othello, Macbeth, The Tempest, Henry V, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Timson presents the complex plots in a clear, entertaining and informal style, presenting the main characters in the context of the famous lines.

Measuring the World written by Daniel Kehlmann performed by David Timson on CD (Abridged)

Measuring the World written by Daniel Kehlmann performed by David Timson on CD (Abridged)
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ISBN:  9781847242181
Genre - Main:  Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Historical
Duration:  315 mins
Length:  Abridged
Author:  Daniel Kehlmann
Performer 1:  David Timson

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Measuring the World recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment - the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Towards the end of the 18th century, these two brilliant young Germans set out to measure the world. Humboldt, a Prussian aristocrat schooled for greatness, negotiates savannah and jungle, climbs the highest mountain then known to man, counts head lice on the heads of the natives, and explores every hole in the ground. Gauss, a man born in poverty who will be recognised as the greatest mathematician since Newton, does not even need to leave his home in Göttingen to know that space is curved. He can run prime numbers in his head, cannot imagine a life without women and yet jumps out of bed on his wedding night to jot down a mathematical formula.

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