Word: manuscripts
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...order of events as part of the book's artifice. At times one can suppose that the author himself acts in the book as one of its characters Donoso even includes a chapter in which he, the author, supposedly met one of his characters. The character reads Donoso's manuscript and attacks it for its distortions Garcia Marquez writes more traditionally, lending his portrayals of characters an aura of truth by not questioning their existence within the frame work of his novels. At the end of One Hundred Years of Solitude a character has discovered the manuscript and is translating...
...greatest Protestant theologians. The Rare Book Room concentrates on early New England theology, early Dutch theology and its related literature, and the world's largest selection of Unitarian Universalist materials, says curator Maria Grossman. For such a small library, the Rare Book Room has an impressive array of manuscript featuring the published and unpublished works of theologian Paul Tillich and literature reflecting the continental pietism during the 17th and 18th centuries within the German Lutheran Church. Most of the rare books are unavailable for undergraduate browsing. However, Grossman says she is more than willing to take the time to show...
Producer Richard Kobritz bought the movie rights for $500,000 after reading King's manuscript last year; production began on April 25, four days before the novel's publication. "You knew it was going to be a bestseller," explains Kobritz...
...bidding at Sotheby's in London lasted only two minutes, but when it was over the 12th century illuminated German manuscript known as "The Gospels of Henry the Lion" had fetched a glittering $11.7 million, the highest auction price ever paid for a work of art. The pristinely preserved, 13½-in.-by-10-in. medieval masterpiece contains more than 1,500 exquisite illustrations and 41 full-page miniatures, but its value is not merely aesthetic to its new owners, a consortium of buyers that included the West German government. The acquisition, says Banker Hermann...
...falcons, and boars by aristocrats, the serving of the rare Cockentrice (a capon and suckling pig cut in half, stuffed and sewn each to the other's half), and finally the ravenous consumption of the endless courses are researched and represented with the serene detail of an illuminated manuscript...