基本信息出版社：Harper Collins Publ. UK
页码：208 页
出版日期：2007年09月
ISBN：0007197896
条形码：9780007197897
装帧：精装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Eminent Lives
外文书名：莎士比亚: 舞台人生

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作者简介 Bill Bryson's many books include, most recently `The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid' as well as `A Short History of Nearly Everything`, `I'm a Stranger Here Myself', `A walk in the Woods', `Neither Here Nor There', `Made in America', and `Notes from a Small Island'. He edited `The Best American Travel Writing 2000'. Born in Des Moines, he now lives in Norfolk with his wife and four children.
编辑推荐 Independent
'This season's best-selling volume.'

Sunday Times
'...brilliantly funny...As an abbreviated tour around the world of Shakespeare, this could hardly be bettered.'

Daily Mail
'...a brisk summary of all the things we'd like to know, but don't...enough to be absorbed in an entertaining evening.'

Mail on Sunday
'...a delight...fresh, concise and...sharply illuminting...Bryson is brilliant...a gem of a book...'

Daily Telegraph
'Bryson is shrewd...and as funny as you'd expect...He's good value too.'

The Times
'Measured, sensible and, at times, as wryly humorous as you'd expect.'


Times Literary Supplement
'A delightful account of Shakespeare's elusiveness...the pairing of Bryson with Shakespeare is a happy one.'