The Modern World: Ten Great Writers(1988)
Documentary
First Air Date: 1988-01-10
Average Runtime: N/A
Rating: 8.0
Votes: 1
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 11
This documentary series uses drama and commentary to shed light on the lives and works of Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T. S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Luigi Pirandello, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf.
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 11E01
James Joyce: Ulysses
Air Date: 1988-01-10
From the series "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers", this playful documentary introduces James Joyce's most famous ...
E02
Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent
Air Date: 1988-01-17
When an anarchist attempted to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, an idea exploded in the mind of Joseph Conrad. This...
E03
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment'
Air Date: 1988-01-24
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E04
Marcel Proust: A la recherche du temps perdu
Air Date: 1988-01-31
Withdrawing from the glittering high society he had so avidly courted, Marcel Proust spent the last decade of his lif...
E05
Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain
Air Date: 1988-02-07
A novel of ideas at once serious and comic, The Magic Mountain offers a bird’s-eye view of the political, philosophic...
E06
Henrik Ibsen: The Master Playwright
Air Date: 1988-02-14
This program, narrated by Ibsen biographer Michael Meyer, charts the development of Henrik Ibsen’s style over four pe...
E07
Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
Air Date: 1988-02-21
Virginia Woolf pushed the boundaries of the novel as a tool for psychological inquiry through her experimentation wit...
E08
Luigi Pirandello: In Search of an Author
Air Date: 1988-02-28
In 1925 Luigi Pirandello brought his troupe to England as part of a worldwide tour. This program re-creates one day i...
E09
T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land
Air Date: 1988-03-06
Read by noted actors Michael Gough, Edward Fox, and Eileen Atkins, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land powerfully expresses ...
E10
Franz Kafka: The Trial
Air Date: 1988-03-13
A suppressor of his own writings, Franz Kafka even requested that upon his death all his extant works be destroyed—ye...
E11
Ten Great Writers: The Seminar
Air Date: 1988-03-20
In this lively round-table discussion, moderator Melvyn Bragg; the late writer and critic Anthony Burgess; Professor ...
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