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Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, The Trial has resonated with chilling truth for generations of readers.

Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogues his every feeling and sensation about the world and people around him. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which "spread at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of our time, the time of purple suspenders and broken chair seats; it is made of wide, soft instants, spreading at the edge, like an oil stain." Roquentin's efforts to try and come to terms with his life, his philosophical and psychological struggles, give Sartre the opportunity to dramatize the tenets of his Existentialist creed.The introduction for this edition of Nausea by Hayden Carruth gives background on Sartre's life and major works, a summary of the principal themes of Existentialist philosophy, and a critical analysis of the novel itself.

Originally published in 1854, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, is a vivid account of the time that Henry D. Thoreau lived alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. It is one of the most influential and compelling books in American literature. This new paperback edition-introduced by noted American writer John Updike-celebrates the 150th anniversary of this classic work. Much of Walden's material is derived from Thoreau's journals and contains such engaging pieces as "Reading" and "The Pond in the Winter" Other famous sections involve Thoreau's visits with a Canadian woodcutter and with an Irish family, a trip to Concord, and a description of his bean field. This is the complete and authoritative text of Walden-as close to Thoreau's original intention as all available evidence allows. For the student and for the general reader, this is the ideal presentation of Thoreau's great document of social criticism and dissent.

Walden(; first published asWalden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and—to some degree—a manual for self-reliance.First published in 1854,Waldendetails Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau used this time to write his first book,A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. The experience later inspiredWalden, in which Thoreau compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development.

SAMUEL BECKETT is the first biography of the Nobel Prizewinning novelist and playwright. A monumental work of scholarship - arguably the most important book about Beckett ever published - SAMUEL BECKETT is also fascinating reading. Beckett's life has been as rich as his writing is spare, and Deirdre Bair tells his story superbly: the upper-middle-class Irish childhood; the early years in Paris and Beckett's complex relationship to Joyce; the psychological anguish of his apprenticeship, poured out by Beckett in more than 300 remarkable, heretofore-unknown letters to a confidant, Thomas McGreevy; Beckett's heroic service with the French Resistance, also unknown till now; "the siege in the room," that extraordinary period after the Second World War during which Beckett created the first masterpieces that would make him world famous; Beckett's increasing involvement with the theatre and his desperate attempts to guard his privacy against the encroachments of celebrity.SAMUEL BECKETT chronicles Beckett's tumultuous relationship with his family, recounts the psychosomatic illnesses that have often kept him from writing, and traces (where they exist) the autobiographical strains in his work. The book tells of his relationships with publishers, actors, directors, and friends. Above all, it portrays Beckett himself, the poet of despair, the angular, enigmatic artist who, in the words of his Nobel Prize citation, "has transmuted the destitution of modern man into his exaltation."When Deirdre Bair began the research for this book, Beckett said he would not authorize it nor would he read it before it was published. To friends he wrote, "I am sure Mrs. Bair is a serious scholar and is out to do a fine book. I will neither help nor hinder her." After literally hundreds of interviews and years of research in Ireland, England, France, Italy, Spain, Northern Ireland, Canada and the United States, after correspondence with people living on every continent, Deirdre Bair has produced a book that is everything a scholar or a reader could hope for: SAMUEL BECKETT is one of the remarkable literary biographies of our time.Deirdre Bair received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and worked as a journalist on newspapers and magazines before returning to academic life and taking a M.A. and Ph.D. at Columbia University. She has taught at Trinity College (Connecticut) and Yale University, and teaches now in the English Department of the University of Pennsylvania. She is married, has two children, and lives in Connecticut. (Taken from the inside jacket material of the First Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Edition, 1978.) 

Fear makes me a writer, fear and a lack of confidence. A major new biography on an increasingly important American literary icon, by the most acclaimed writer on the Beat Generation, Barry Miles. Miles knew all the key players in the Beat era, including William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, and also recorded with Bukowski. Having spoken with people close to Bukowski, and with a full examination of Bukowski's extensive writings, Miles has written the definitive story of the laureate of American low-life.

"ای کاش پیرمردی کوچک بودم بی مویی برسر, نشسته پشت میز تحریری بزرگ در کتابخانه ای دلکش".و برخلاف آرزویش چخوف مردی بود جوان, بزرگ و زیبا درست همانگونه که به چشم ها می آمد.... آلکساندر کوپرین نویسنده جوان وقت روسیه که اولین بار چخوف را ملاقات کرد در این باره نوشت: "من زیباترین, دلپذیرترین و الهام انگیزترین صورتی را می دیدم که تا آن زمان اقبال دیدنش را یافته بودم." و این زیباترین صورت جهان مزین شده بود به قلبی مهربان و نبوغی بی مثال.....آنتون چخوف زاده 1860 در شهر تاگروناگ روسیه سومین فرزند از شش فرزند خانواده ای متوسط با پدری به شدت مذهبی و سختگیر و مادری سنتی و بدون قدرت بود....دوران کودکی چخوف با کتک های روزمره پدر و تعلیمات سخت مذهبی اش در میان فقر و سختی گذشته و دوران نوجوانی به زحمت و تلاش برای امرار معاش برای خرج تحصیلات و گذران زندگی خانواده ای پرجمعیت بود....چخوف که شاگردی متوسط در مدرسه بود بعد از ورشکستگی پدر و مهاجرت ناگهانی خانواده به مسکو در شهر کوچک تاگروناگ محکوم به ماندن شد و بعد از تلاش زیاد برای بدست آوردن پول با کارهای کوچک به فکر ارتقا تحصیلی خودش به پزشکی افتاد به این امید که دارای منصب و پول بیشتری شود و بعد از دو سال رنج فراوان به مدرسه پزشکی مسکو پذیرفته شد و در آنجا بود که با وضعیت نابسامان خانواده روبرو شد...برای کمک به خانواده و با کشف استعدادش در نوشتن و علاقه ای که به ساختن داستان از موضوعات روزمره و حتی هیچ داشت با قلمی طنز در زیر اسمهای مستعار شروع به نوشتن برای یکی دو مجله و روزنامه فکاهی آن زمان کرد....و این بود آغاز نوشتن هایش که گاه حتی به چندین و چند تا در روز میرسید..."همچنان که از این داستان به آن داستان می پرداخت, پرده نقاشی زندگی در روسیه آن روزگار را نقش میزد- پرده ای عریض, اما ناچیز, حقیر اما مومنانه. آنان که در این پرده ها پهلو به پهلو دیده می شدند همان مردم عادی بودند که وی آنان را به ناگاه, هم در شهر و هم در بیرون شهر, یافته بود: روستاییان جاهل و جانور خوی, اعیان عاطل, دانشجویان مِی زده, دکان داران اسیر دخل و خرج, مقامات فاسد....هریک از ایشان دچار مصیبتی رقت انگیز و همخوان با شخصیت رقت انگیز خود. با این همه چخوف با رشته کنایاتی روشن و کوتاه, میتوانست به رازی اشاره کند که در پس ظاهر خاکسترین آنها نهفته بود. پوچی زندگی هرروزین را بی اشتباه عریان میکرد, نه سخنی از تعقیب بود, نه از دفاع, حقیقت خام, عکاسی. افزون بر این, جعبه جادوی او نافرسودنی می نمود: در سراسر این نگارخانه عظیم هیچ تکچهره تکراری وجود نداشت."با وجود طرفداران بسیار و اصرار مجله ها چخوف هرگز حاضر نمیشد در زیر نام واقعی خود بنویسد تا وقتی که یکی از نویسندگان بنام آن زمان به نام گریگاروویچ به نبوغ او پی برده و در نامه ای با صراحت کلام برایش نوشت که چگونه چخوف استعدادش را با قلم زدنهای با سرعت و گاه بی عمق در حال از بین بردن است...."من همه آنچه را با امضای چخونته بوده است خوانده ام, اگرچه آزرده بوده ام از مردی که خود را چندان دست کم می پندارد که کاربرد نامی مستعار را لازم میداند...شما استعدادی راستین دارید, استعدادی که شما را به سطحی ارتقا می دهد بسی فراتر از نسل تازه نویسندگان....بس کنید تلاش را برای نگاه داشتن مهلت ها. نمیدانم درآمدتان چه مقدار است, اگر کم است, گرسنگی بکشید, اما مشاهدات خود را برای آثاری بگذارید که به آن ها می اندیشید...کاری از این دست خواهد ارزید به بیش از صد داستان سراسر پاک و پاکیزه ای که میان صفحات روزنامه ها پراکنده است."بعد از آن و به تدریج چخوف شروع به آهسته نوشتن ولی بهتر نوشتن کرد و در طول زمان کوتاه زندگی اش بیشتر از صدها داستان و نمایش کوتاه بیاد ماندنی از خودش برجای گذاشت....چخوف به عنوان یکی از بهترن داستان کوتاه نویسان دنیا شناخته شده و بعد از شکسپیر یکی از پربیننده ترین نمایش های دنیا را خلق کرده است....چخوف که از دنیای سیاست و دین و فلسفه دوری میگزید به سادگی به خویشتن خویش, مردی معتدل وابسته بود و بس..."بیایید آدمی عادی باشیم, با همه یکسان رفتار کنیم تا به همبستگی ساختگی نیاز پیدا نکنیم" و در این عادی بودن خودش را به هیچ جرگه و فرقه ای متعلق نمیدانست و بین دو علاقه زندگی اش ادبیات و پزشکی تنها به خانواده اش وفادار بود و ملتش...."من نه آزادیخواهم نه محافظه کار, نه پیرو پیشرفت گام به گامم نه راهب و لاقید, دوست می دارم هنرمندی باشم آزاد و دیگر هیچ, از دروغ بیزارم و از خشونت در همه جلوه هایش...."با وجود علاقه اش به نوشتن و محبوبیتی که در طول زندگی اش از نویسندگی به دست آورد, چخوف هرگز حرفه پزشکی را رها نکرد و تا آخر عمرش بیماران مستمند را در هرکجایی که بود به رایگان و با طبع خاطر درمان میکرد و بسته به نیازش گاه به پزشکی و گاه به ادبیات روی خوش تری نشان میداد.... چخوف نمیتوانست تشخیص دهد که آیا پزشک است یا نویسنده. با ارجاع به قیاسی که دوست می داشت میان همسر قانونی اش پزشکی و معشوقه اش ادبیات به دست دهد, نوشت: "وقتی یکی خشمگینم می کند, شب را با دیگری میگذرانم. چنین روشی ممکن است اندکی نابسامانی فراهم کند, اما ملال کمتری خواهد آورد."نویسنده کتاب هانری تروایا روسی زاده ای فرانسوی است که زندگینامه شخصیت های بسیاری از جمله داستایوسکی, تولستوی, پوشکین و گوگول را به تصویر کشیده است که برای نوشتن زندگی چخوف دچار تردید بوده است با چاپ این کتاب صاحب جایزه نقد ادبی سال 1984 شد. چخوف در عین ژرف بینی و راز آمیز بودن عاری از زندگی پرجنجال و سرنوشت های گونا گونی چون دیگران بوده است...مردی عاری از پیچیده گی ها و مزین به لبخندی زیبا و روحی بزرگ انسانی همچون انسان های دیگر فقط بری از دشمنی با همنوعان, مردی از جنس تواضع و فروتنی با انضباطی زاهدانه و عشق به طبیعت با نبوغی غیر قابل قیاس و قلمی که از هیچ زندگی می آفریده است....چخوف بعد از سالها ابتلا به بیماری سل و رنج و عذابی که متحمل بود در سال 1904 درست دوسال بعد از ازدواجش با هنرپیشه تئاتری در مسکو از زندگی به مرگ گذر کرد بدان سادگی که خصلت او بود....از شاهکارهای به یاد ماندنی اش میتوان از نمایش مرغ دریایی, دایی وانیا, و سه خواهر و داستانهای کوتاهش چون ماتم, فراری و وانکا نام برد..پی نوشت: ترجمه آقای علی بهبهانی در عین روان بودن گاه و بیگاه به سکسه دچار میشدند...به نظر میرسید در جاهایی ماجرا یکباره قطع میشود و به جایی پرت ربط داده میشود....توصیفاتی که چخوف در نامه های عاشقانه اش به اولگا همسرش نوشته بود بسیار عجیب بودند مثل: سگ, هاپو, جوجه بوقلمون و غیره که به نظرم میتوانستند جایگزین های بهتری داشته باشند....

Dead Souls is eloquent on some occasions, lyrical on others, and pious and reverent elsewhere. Nicolai Gogol was a master of the spoof. The American students of today are not the only readers who have been confused by him. Russian literary history records more divergent interpretations of Gogol than perhaps of any other classic.In a new translation of the comic classic of Russian literature, Chichikov, an enigmatic stranger and conniving schemer, buys deceased serfs' names from their landlords' poll tax lists hoping to mortgage them for profit and to reinvent himself as a likeable gentleman.

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (; Russian: Лев Николаевич Толстой, tr. Lev Nikoláyevich Tolstóy; [lʲef nʲɪkɐˈlaɪvʲɪtɕ tɐlˈstoj] (listen); 9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828 – 20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He received multiple nominations for Nobel Prize in Literature every year from 1902 to 1906, and nominations for Nobel Peace Prize in 1901, 1902 and 1910, and his miss of the prize is a major Nobel prize controversy.Born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828, he is best known for the novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877), often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction. He first achieved literary acclaim in his twenties with his semi-autobiographical trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852–1856), and Sevastopol Sketches (1855), based upon his experiences in the Crimean War. Tolstoy's fiction includes dozens of short stories and several novellas such as The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886), Family Happiness (1859), and Hadji Murad (1912). He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays.

Sculpting in Time (Russian "Запечатлённое время", literally "Depicted Time") is a book by Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky about art and cinema in general, and his own films in particular. It was originally published in 1986 in German shortly before the author's death, and published in English in 1987, translated by Kitty Hunter-Blair. The title refers to Tarkovsky's own name for his style of filmmaking.The book's main statement about the nature of cinema is summarized in the statement, "The dominant, all-powerful factor of the film image is rhythm, expressing the course of time within the frame." Tarkovsky describes his own distaste for the growing popularity of rapid-cut editing and other devices that he believes to be contrary to the true artistic nature of the cinema.

Leo Tolstoy embodies the most extraordinary contradictions. He was a wealthy aristocrat who preached the virtues of poverty and the peasant life, a misogynist who wrote Anna Karenina, and a supreme writer who declared, "Literature is rubbish." From Tolstoy's famously bad marriage to his enormously successful career, Troyat presents a brilliant portrait that reads like an epic novel written by Tolstoy himself.

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol(31 March 1809 – 4 March 1852) was a Russian dramatist of Ukrainian origin.Although Gogol was considered by his contemporaries to be one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in his work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of surrealism and the grotesque ("The Nose", "Viy", "The Overcoat", "Nevsky Prospekt"). His early works, such asEvenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing, Ukrainian culture and folklore. His later writing satirised political corruption in the Russian Empire (The Government Inspector,Dead Souls). The novelTaras Bulba(1835) and the playMarriage(1842), along with the short stories "Diary of a Madman", "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich", "The Portrait" and "The Carriage", are also among his best-known works.

Anton Chekhov's life was short, intense, and dominated by battles, both with his dependents and with the tuberculosis that killed him at age forty-four. The traditional image of Chekhov is that of the restrained artist torn between medicine and literature. But Donald Rayfield's biography reveals the life long hidden behind the noble facade. Here is a man capable of both great generosity toward needy peasants and harsh callousness toward lovers and family, a man who craved with equal passion the company of others and the solitude necessary to create his art. Based on information from Chekhov archives throughout Russia, Rayfield's work has been hailed as a groundbreaking examination of the life of a literary master.A new biography of the great author and playwright.

Emil Sinclair is a young boy raised in a bourgeois home, amidst what is described as a Scheinwelt, a play on words that means "world of light" as well as "world of illusion". Emil's entire existence can be summarized as a struggle between two worlds: the show world of illusion (related to the Hindu concept of maya) and the real world, the world of spiritual truth. In the course of the novel, accompanied and prompted by his mysterious classmate 'Max Demian', he detaches from and revolts against the superficial ideals of the world of appearances and eventually awakens into a realization of self.

Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (Portuguese: [fɨɾˈnɐ̃du pɨˈsoɐ]; 13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935), commonly known as Fernando Pessoa, was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher, described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language. He also wrote in and translated from English and French.
Pessoa was a prolific writer, and not only under his own name, for he dreamed up approximately seventy-five others. He did not call them pseudonyms because he felt that did not capture their true independent intellectual life and instead called them heteronyms. These imaginary figures sometimes held unpopular or extreme views.

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre(,US also;French:[saʁtʁ]; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology, and one of the leading figures in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. His work has also influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies, and continues to influence these disciplines.Sartre was also noted for his open relationship with prominent feminist and fellow existentialist philosopher and writer Simone de Beauvoir. Together, Sartre and de Beauvoir challenged the cultural and social assumptions and expectations of their upbringings, which they considered bourgeois, in both lifestyle and thought. The conflict between oppressive, spiritually destructive conformity (mauvaise foi, literally, "bad faith") and an "authentic" way of "being" became the dominant theme of Sartre's early work, a theme embodied in his principal philosophical workBeing and Nothingness(L'Être et le Néant, 1943). Sartre's introduction to his philosophy is his workExistentialism Is a Humanism(L'existentialisme est un humanisme, 1946), originally presented as a lecture.

Steppenwolf is a poetical self-portrait of a man who felt himself to be half-human and half-wolf. This Faust-like and magical story is evidence of Hesse's searching philosophy and extraordinary sense of humanity as he tells of the humanization of a middle-aged misanthrope. Yet his novel can also be seen as a plea for rigorous self-examination and an indictment of the intellectual hypocrisy of the period. As Hesse himself remarked, "Of all my books Steppenwolf is the one that was more often and more violently misunderstood than any of the others".

Renowned Kafka scholar Jeremy Adler examines the life of the writer who probed the hostile side of modernity in darkly terrifying masterpieces that mirrored the turmoil of his own inner world. The illustrations in this volume include rarely seen drawings from Kafka's workbooks, images of the Prague environment that inspired his nightmarish works, photos of Kafka with friends and colleagues, and reproductions of letters, manuscripts, and first edition book jackets.

Fernando Pessoa was many writers in one. He attributed his prolific writings to a wide range of alternate selves, each of which had a distinct biography, ideology. and horoscope. When he died in 1935, Pessoa left behind a trunk filled with unfinished and unpublished writings, among which were the remarkable pages that make up his posthumous masterpiece, The Book of Disquiet, an astonishing work that, in George Steiner's words, "gives to Lisbon the haunting spell of Joyce's Dublin or Kafka's Prague."Published for the first time some fifty years after his death, this unique collection of short, aphoristic paragraphs comprises the "autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of Pessoa's alternate selves. Part intimate diary, part prose poetry, part descriptive narrative, captivatingly translated by Richard Zenith, The Book of Disquiet is one of the greatest works of the twentieth century.

When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor, and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.

1997 Italian film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni

A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.

1999 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes

For his final assignment, a top temporal agent must pursue the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time. The chase turns into a unique, surprising and mind-bending exploration of love, fate, identity and time travel taboos.

2014 science fiction mystery thriller film directed by Spierig brothers

15-year-old Oliver Tate has two objectives: To lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to extinguish the flame between his mother and an ex-lover who has resurfaced in her life.

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.

A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.

2002 biographic film on the Warsaw Ghetto directed by Roman Polanski

A mysterious Hollywood stuntman and mechanic moonlights as a getaway driver and finds himself in trouble when he helps out his neighbor.

2011 American film by Nicolas Winding Refn

A New York City doctor embarks on a harrowing, night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife reveals a painful secret to him.

1999 British-American drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick

A self-diagnosed nymphomaniac recounts her erotic experiences to the man who saved her after a beating.

A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.

2014 film directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu

A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge.

A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out to find them.

2012 romantic comedy-drama film by Wes Anderson

The extracurricular king of Rushmore Preparatory School is put on academic probation.

An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation.

2009 stop-motion animated film directed by Wes Anderson

With a plan to exact revenge on a mythical shark that killed his partner, Oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) rallies a crew that includes his estranged wife, a journalist, and a man who may or may not be his son.

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep.

A linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world.

2016 American science fiction drama film directed by Denis Villeneuve

While navigating their careers in Los Angeles, a pianist and an actress fall in love while attempting to reconcile their aspirations for the future.

In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen. He and his son set out to find it.

The Bicycle Thief is the simple yet charming story of a young girl's quest to get her stolen bike back.

Norwegian composer and pianist (1843-1907)

Robbie Basho (born Daniel R. Robinson, Jr., August 31, 1940 – February 28, 1986) was an American acoustic guitarist, pianist and singer.Basho was born in Baltimore, and was orphaned as an infant. Adopted by the Robinson family, Daniel Robinson, Jr. attended Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore and was prepared for college at St. James School, Maryland, an Episcopal school. He went on to study at University of Maryland, College Park. Although he played the euphonium in the high school band and sang in middle school and high school ensembles, his interest in acoustic guitar grew during his college years, as a direct result of his friendships with fellow students John Fahey, Ed Denson, and Max Ochs. In 1959, Basho purchased his first guitar and immersed himself in Asian art and culture. It was around this time that he changed his name to Basho, in honor of the Japanese poet, Matsuo Bashō.

Italian composer and violinist (1678-1741)

German composer and musician of the Baroque era

An antisocial maverick doctor who specializes in diagnostic medicine does whatever it takes to solve puzzling cases that come his way using his crack team of doctors and his wits.

An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks.

American drama television series from 1990–1991

Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) and its crew. It later acquired the retronym of Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) to distinguish the show within the media franchise that it began.

Dekalog (pronounced [dɛˈkalɔg], also known as Dekalog: The Ten Commandments and The Decalogue) is a 1988 Polish drama series of films directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski for television and co-written by Kieślowski with Krzysztof Piesiewicz, with music by Zbigniew Preisner. It consists of ten one-hour films, inspired by the decalogue of the Ten Commandments. Each short film explores characters facing one or several moral or ethical dilemmas as they live in an austere housing project in 1980s Poland.The series, which is Kieślowski's most acclaimed work, was said in 2002 to be "the best dramatic work ever done specifically for television" and has won numerous international awards, though it was not widely released outside Europe until the late 1990s. It is one of fifteen films listed in the category "Values" on the Vatican film list. In 1991, filmmaker Stanley Kubrick wrote an admiring foreword to the published screenplay.

Ten television drama films, each one based on one of the Ten Commandments.

Jack and Triumph are reunited after years apart.

The Late Show with David Letterman is an hour-long weeknight comedy and talk-show broadcast by CBS from the Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway in New York City.

A secret military team, SG-1, is formed to explore other planets through the recently discovered Stargates.

American–Canadian science fiction television series from 1997–2007

In the 24th century, a disparate band of antiheroes unravel a vast conspiracy that threatens the Solar System's fragile state of cold war.

American science fiction television series

The satiric adventures of a working-class family in the misfit city of Springfield.

American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening

About Cal Lightman, the world's leading deception expert who studies facial expressions and involuntary body language to expose the truth behind the lies.

The story of the coastline of the UK and her near neighbours.

Secrets and truths unfold through the lives of female friends in one suburban neighborhood, after the mysterious suicide of a neighbor.

A white-collar criminal agrees to help the FBI catch other white-collar criminals using his expertise as an art and securities thief, counterfeiter, and conman.

Science documentaries about various topics.

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