On October 30, 1938, families across the country were gathered around their radios when their regular programming was interrupted by an announcer delivering news of a meteor strike in New Jersey....
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Author: Schwartz, A. BradSummary:
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Author: Cantril, HadleySummary:
On Halloween night 1938, Orson Welles broadcast a radio adaptation of the H. G. Wells fantasy, The War of the Worlds. What listeners heard sounded so realistic that at least a million were...
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Author: WELLS, OrsonSummary:
This motion picture soundtrack includes audio narration. Charles Foster Kane, a wealthy recluse, dies in his castle-like estate, Xanadu. The dying word on the lips of the newspaper tycoon who...
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Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is a classic of science fiction. Though it began its life as a short story, it was later expanded into a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel, served as a...
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International crime. Lushly depicted settings. Shady, interesting characters. And Orson Welles leading the pack as the amoral anti-hero. All of this and more makes The Lives of Harry Lime one of...
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Author: Radio ArchivesSummary:
Before creating cinematic masterpieces like "Citizen Kane", Orson Welles established his creative credentials with "The Mercury Theatre on the Air", an hour-long showcase which...
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Volume 3 of The Lives of Harry Lime In the film noir classic, Orson Welles played Harry Lime - rogue, scoundrel, and black marketeer in postwar Vienna. At the end of the film, in a spectacular...
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Volume 2 of The Lives of Harry Lime In the film noir classic, Orson Welles played Harry Lime - rogue, scoundrel, and black marketeer in postwar Vienna. At the end of the film, in a spectacular...
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Volume 1 of The Lives of Harry Lime In the film noir classic, Orson Welles played Harry Lime - rogue, scoundrel, and black marketeer in postwar Vienna. At the end of the film, in a spectacular...
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Author: Lebo, HarlanSummary:
With the 75th anniversary of Citizen Kane in May 2016, Harlan Lebo has written the full story of Orson Welles's masterpiece film. The book explores Welles's meteoric rise to stardom in New York...
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Author: Cipriani, ArrigoSummary:
A lively, witty history of the iconic Italian drinking establishment, a meeting place for literary and artistic luminaries for nearly a century. On the short list of the world's most famous...
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Author: Chandlar, L. A.Summary:
Lane Sanders and her fiery boss, Mayor Fiorello "Fio" La Guardia, have managed to contain the explosive underground conspiracies of New York's most sinister schemers. But after a seemingly...
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Author: Steele, RomneySummary:
"A very special book about a very special place." –Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food "What a world Romney Steele has given us in My...
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Author: Wilde, OscarSummary:
A short story by Oscar Wilde.