![]() He taught for ten years in both state and private schools and is married with three children and six grandchildren. ![]() Michael Morpurgo OBE was born in 1943 in St Albans and was educated at Kings Canterbury, Sandhurst and Kings College London. Michael Morpurgo has written more than one hundred books for children and won the Whitbread Award, the Smarties Award, the Circle of Gold Award, the Children’s Book Award and has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times. War Horse is a story of universal suffering for a universal audience by a writer who ‘has the happy knack of speaking to both child and adult readers’ (The Guardian). Look out for Morpurgo’s other war books including Friend or Foe, Waiting for Anya, King of the Cloud Forests and An Eagle in the Snow. The National Theatre production opened in 2007 and has enjoyed successful runs in the West End and on Broadway.Ī great way of introducing young readers to the realities of WWI. War Horse was adapted by Steven Spielberg as a major motion picture with Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, and Benedict Cumberbatch. ![]() The power of war and the beauty of peace. One horse has the seen the best and the worst of humanity. Bombarded by artillery, with bullets knocking riders from his back, Joey tells a powerful story of the truest friendships surviving in terrible times. In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches. Before the Steven Spielberg film, before the National Theatre production, there was the classic children’s novel… ![]()
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![]() The duo repped Primary Wave Music Publishing in acquiring various interests in the music catalogs and master recordings of James Brown, Def Leppard, Stevie Nicks, Luther Vandross, Tom Whitlock, the Strokes, Regent Music Corp. “We said, ‘Look, the world’s favorite word is free.’”Īlter and Baron have handled over $3 billion in deals in the past 12 months alone. He also bought Black News Channel for $11 million, launched the streaming service Sports.TV and added eight Asian entertainment channels to AMG’s AVOD platforms Local Now, Sports.TV and theGrio.Īhead of the curve with AVOD: “Everybody was asking consumers to pay this, pay that ,” he says. In 2022, his Allen Media Group (AMG) bought the free ad-supported streaming service HBCUGO.TV, closed deals for it to carry Southwestern Athletic and Intercollegiate Athletic Conference games, then secured a TV distribution deal with CBS owned-and-operated duopoly stations. ![]() Allen continues to move steadily closer to his still far-off goal of building the biggest media company in the world. ![]() ![]() The Heroides were long held in low esteem by literary scholars but, like other works by Ovid, were re-evaluated more positively in the late 20th century. ![]() A further set of six poems, widely known as the Double Heroides and numbered 16 to 21 in modern scholarly editions, follows these individual letters and presents three separate exchanges of paired epistles: one each from a heroic lover to his absent beloved and from the heroine in return. The Heroides ( The Heroines), or Epistulae Heroidum ( Letters of Heroines), is a collection of fifteen epistolary poems composed by Ovid in Latin elegiac couplets and presented as though written by a selection of aggrieved heroines of Greek and Roman mythology in address to their heroic lovers who have in some way mistreated, neglected, or abandoned them. ![]() Front matter of Boswell's copy of the 1732 edition of the Heroides, edited by Peter Burmann. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “ Beyond a Boundary is a book of remarkable richness and force, which vastly expands our understanding of sports as an element of popular culture in the Western and colonial world.”- Mark Naison, The Nation “A work of double reverence-for the resilient, elegant ritualism of cricket and for the black people of the world.”- Whitney Balliett, The New Yorker his scintillating memoir of his life in cricket, Beyond a Boundary (1963), James devoted some of his finest pages to this theme.”- Edward Said, The Washington Post “As a player, James the writer was able to see in cricket a metaphor for art and politics, the collective experience providing a focus for group effort and individual performance. Liebling, and Ernest Hemingway.”- Derek Walcott, The New York Times Book Review should find its place on the team with Izaak Walton, Ivan Turgenev, A. ![]() Named one of the Top 50 Sports Books of All Time by Sports Illustrated James’s classic Beyond a Boundary celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the greatest books on sport and culture ever written. ![]() |