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The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

1988 – 1988
1 seasons · 11 episodes
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This documentary series uses drama and commentary to shed light on the lives and works of Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T. S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Luigi Pirandello, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf.

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Anthony Burgess
Self
Eileen Atkins
Virginia Woolf
Douglas Hodge
Raskolnikov
Hermione Lee
Self
George Steiner
Self
John Castle
Peter Walsh
Robert Daws
Septimus Warren-Smith
Rupert Degas
Reader: 'The Waves'

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Status
Canceled
Type
Scripted
First aired
Jan 10, 1988
Original language
EN

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