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The Making of Handel's Messiah by Andrew Gant
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Category: Music | Series: The\Making Of Ser.
The first performance of George Frideric Handel's Messiah in Dublin in 1742 is now legendary. Gentlemen were asked to leave their swords at home and ladies to come without hoops in their skirts in order to fit more people into the audience. The initial performance was so well-received in Dublin that an ...Show more
The Making of Lewis Carroll's Alice and the Invention of Wonderland, The by Peter Hunt
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Category: Children's Reference | Series: The\Making Of Ser.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass are two of the most famous, translated, and quoted books in the world. What began as a simple tale told by eccentric Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) to Alice Liddell, daughter of the Dean of Christ Church ...Show more
The Making of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Daisy Hay
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Category: Auto/Biography | Series: The\Making Of Ser.
"Invention ... does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos"--Mary ShelleyIn the two hundred years since its first publication, the story of Frankenstein's creation during stormy days and nights at Byron's Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva has become literary legend. In this compelling and inno ...Show more
The Making of The Wind in the Willows by Peter Hunt
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Category: Small Pleasures | Series: The\Making Of Ser.
The Wind in the Willows has its origins in the bedtime stories that Kenneth Grahame told to his son Alastair and then continued in letters (now held in the Bodleian Library) while he was on holiday. But the book developed into something much more sophisticated than this, as Peter Hunt shows. He identifi ...Show more
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