{"product_id":"shakespeare-lp-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBryson, Bill:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eBill Bryson's bestselling books include \u003cem\u003eOne Summer\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eA Short History of Nearly Everything\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAt Home\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eA Walk in the Woods\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNeither Here nor There\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMade in America\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Mother Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in England with his wife.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Large Print","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50317876330770,"sku":"9780061363917","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9c413e66-991a-4118-9d90-beaebd91c08d.jpg?v=1727541949","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/shakespeare-lp-9780061363917","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}