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Today it is the most valuable book in the world. Recently one sold for over five million dollars. It is the book that rescued the name of William Shakespeare and half of his plays from oblivion. The Millionaire and the Bard tells the miraculous and romantic story of the making of the First Folio, and of the American industrialist whose thrilling pursuit of the book became a lifelong obsession.When Shakespeare died in 1616 half of his plays died with him. No onenot even their authorbelieved that his writings would last, that he was a genius, or that future generations would celebrate him as the greatest author in the history of the English language. By the time of his death his plays were rarely performed, eighteen of them had never been published, and the rest existed only in bastardized forms that did not stay true to his original language. Seven years later, in 1623, Shakespeares business partners, companions, and fellow actors, John Heminges and Henry Condell, gathered copies of the plays and manuscripts, edited and published thirty-six of them. This massive book, the First Folio, was intended as a memorial to their deceased friend. They could not have known that it would become one of the most important books ever published in the English language, nor that it would become a fetish object for collectors. The Millionaire and the Bard is a literary detective story, the tale of two mysterious mena brilliant author and his obsessive collectorseparated by space and time. It is a tale of two citiesElizabethan and Jacobean London and Gilded Age New York. It is a chronicle of two worldsof art and commercethat unfolded an ocean and three centuries apart. And it is the thrilling tale of the luminous book that saved the name of William Shakespeare to the last syllable of recorded time. Overdrive - Home - Boston Public Library If this is your first time selecting "Send to NOOK app" you will be taken to a Barnes & Noble page to sign into (or create) your NOOK account AUTHORS/PERFORMERS - Festival of Books Keep checking back for more authors and participants 123 Andrs is a talented singer/songwriter whose show is an energetic and fun celebration of music for children
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