The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

James Joyce: Ulysses

Jan 10, 1988

From the series "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers", this playful documentary introduces James Joyce's most famous work "Ulysses". It includes fantastic adaptations to film from passages of the novel. It also includes excerpts from a book

Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent

Jan 17, 1988

When an anarchist attempted to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, an idea exploded in the mind of Joseph Conrad. This program re-creates the world of The Secret Agent, the first great novel of political intrigue, in all its suspense and sin

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment'

Jan 24, 1988

Marcel Proust: A la recherche du temps perdu

Jan 31, 1988

Withdrawing from the glittering high society he had so avidly courted, Marcel Proust spent the last decade of his life in virtual isolation, writing and revising Remembrance of Things Past. This program focuses on an intriguing dramatizatio

Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain

Feb 7, 1988

A novel of ideas at once serious and comic, The Magic Mountain offers a bird’s-eye view of the political, philosophical, and social landscapes of pre-World War I Europe. This program uses provocative dramatizations of key scenes from Thomas

Henrik Ibsen: The Master Playwright

Feb 14, 1988

This program, narrated by Ibsen biographer Michael Meyer, charts the development of Henrik Ibsen’s style over four periods: his early years of failure; his epic dramas; his sociological plays, such as A Doll’s House, Ghosts, and Rosmersholm