Paul Scofield plays Shakespeare's King Lear in this new recording for the acclaimed Naxos AudioBooks series. A full supporting cast, including Kenneth Branagh as the Fool, performs the complete, unabridged New Cambridge Shakespeare text of the play, with sound effects and accompanying music.
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and...
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