β Scribed by Tom Stoppard
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the '500 acres inclusive of lake' where Capability Brown's idealized landscape is about to give way to the 'picturesque' Gothic style: 'everything but vampires', as the garden historian Hannah Jarvis remarks to Bernard Nightingale when they stand in the same room 180 years later.
Bernard has arrived to uncover the scandal which is said to have taken place when Lord Byron stayed at Sidley Park.
Tom Stoppard's absorbing play takes us back and forth between the centuries and explores the nature of truth and time, the difference between the Classical and the Romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life - 'the attraction', as Hannah says, 'which Newton left out'.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Victor, an eighty-year-old multimillionaire, surveys his empire from the remoteness of his cloud-capped penthouse. Expensively insulated from the outside world, he nonetheless finds that memories of his impoverished childhood will not be kept so easily at bay. Focusing on the one area of vitality an
**From the bestselling author of *The Monsters of Templeton* comes a lyrical and gripping story of a great American dream.**In the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, a few dozen idealists set out to live off the land, founding what would become a commune centered on the grounds of a deca
**A breathtaking Tasmanian tale of ancient forests; of art and science; of love and, above all, of friendship.** **** In the 1930s, in an isolated and beautiful corner of southern Tasmania, a new young wife arrives at her husband's secluded property - Arcadia. Stella, an artist, falls in love wi
A breathtaking Tasmanian tale of ancient forests; of art and science; of love and, above all, of friendship.β©In the 1930s, in an isolated and beautiful corner of southern Tasmania, a new young wife arrives at her husbandβs secluded property β Arcadia. Stella, an artist, falls in love with Arcadiaβs
A breathtaking Tasmanian tale of ancient forests; of art and science; of love and, above all, of friendship.β©In the 1930s, in an isolated and beautiful corner of southern Tasmania, a new young wife arrives at her husbandβs secluded property β Arcadia. Stella, an artist, falls in love with Arcadiaβs
****"It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them."βTom Stoppard, *Arcadia*** In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be