{"product_id":"shakespeare-lp-bill-bryson-9780061363917","title":"Shakespeare LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, from today's most respected academics to eccentrics like Delia Bacon, an American who developed a firm but unsubstantiated conviction that her namesake, Francis Bacon, was the true author of Shakespeare's plays. Emulating the style of his famous travelogues, Bryson records episodes in his research, including a visit to a basement room in Washington, D.C., where the world's largest collection of First Folios is housed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBryson celebrates Shakespeare as a writer of unimaginable talent and enormous inventiveness. His Shakespeare is like no one else's-the beneficiary of Bryson's genial nature, his engaging skepticism, and a gift for storytelling unrivalled in our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bill Bryson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 006136391X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780061363917\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Large Print\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/13\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.32w x 0.64d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLarge Print\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Bill Bryson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990062858495,"sku":"9780061363917","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e3db11b5-1dd3-401a-904d-8b5d516121bc.jpg?v=1683302788","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shakespeare-lp-bill-bryson-9780061363917","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}