The Millionaire and the Bard

,,The Millionaire and the Bard" de Andrea Mays este o carte captivanta care exploreaza povestea fascinanta a lui Samuel Pickering, un milionar american care a achizitionat si restaurat manuscrisele originale ale lui William Shakespeare. Mays detaliaza calatoria lui Pickering, de la afaceri de succes la pasiunea sa pentru literatura lui Shakespeare, si impactul pe care achizitiile sale le-au avut asupra studiului si conservarii operei lui Shakespeare. Cartea combina elemente de istorie, literatura si biografie pentru a oferi o perspectiva unica asupra unui capitol important al patrimoniului cultural.A a literary detective story, the tale of two mysterious men-a brilliant author and his obsessive collector-separated by space and time. It is a tale of two cities-Elizabethan and Jacobean London and Gilded Age New York. It is a chronicle of two worlds-of art and commerce-that unfolded an ocean and three centuries apart. And it is the thrilling tale of the luminous book that saved the name of William Shakespeare