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Shakespeare's life, despite the scrutiny of generations of biographers and scholars, is still a thicket of myths and traditions, some preposterous, some conflicting, arranged around the few scant facts known about the Bard: from his birth in Stratford to the bequest of his second best bed to his wife when he died.

First published in 1956, The Ascent of Rum Doodle quickly became established as mountaineering classic. As an outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a 40,000-and-a-half-foot peak, many thought it inspired by the 1953 conquest of Everest. But Bowman had drawn on the flavour and tone of earlier adventures, of Bill Tilman and his 1937 account of the Nandi Devi expedition. The book's central and unforgettable character, Binder, is one of the finest creations in comic literature.

La infancia de un chico estadounidense que creció en la década de 1950. Después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Estados Unidos entró en una época de bonanza como no se había visto antes. El estilo de vida americano se desplegó envuelto en un aura de felicidad e ingenuidad: se podían comprar hasta cien marcas de helados, la mayoría de los hogares disponían de televisores para ver a Roy Rogers, el vaquero cantarín, y la gente creía que tomarse dos o tres cócteles antes de cenar era saludable.