Robert Nye
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Our guide to the life of the Bard is an actor called Pickleherring, who asserts that as a boy he was an original member of Shakespeare's acting troupe. In an attic above a brothel in Restoration London-a half century after Shakespeare has departed the stage-Pickleherring, now an old man, sits down to write the full story of his former friend, mentor, and master. Fond, faithful Pickleherring has forgotten nothing over the years, and using sources both...
Author
Language
English
Description
Sir Walter Raleigh-soldier, explorer, adventurer, lover of Queen Elizabeth-emerges from the pages of history and myth, full-blooded, passionate, and profoundly human. After unjustly languishing for years in the Tower, Raleigh undertakes one final voyage in search of gold. On his doomed quest he contends with Spanish forces, mutiny, pirates, court intrigue, and disease, all under the shadow of the executioner's blade awaiting him back home. Along the...
4) Taliesin
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
[1967, c1966]
Language
English
Description
A retelling of the Welsh legends about Gwion, a peasant lad, who drank the three drops of inspiration from the witches brew and was caused to be reborn as Taliesin, mighty Welsh poet.
Author
Publisher
Brooks/Cole
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
In this revision of his popular & critically acclaimed book, Robert Nye clearly & succinctly presents the essential ideas of Freud, Skinner, & Rogers, three of the most important contributors to contemporary psychological thought. * The author is known for his fair, comprehensive, & above all objective treatment of each of the three theories. "Although the book is concise, it includes all the high points of the major theoretical orientations presented."...
