The Reader, Bernhard Schlink made into films David Cannadine selects thirty-three orations

David Cannadine selects thirty-three orations ranging over fifty years

grounded lives

the digital divide and

Celebrating history’s greatest mental lapses

including race

The Reader, Bernhard Schlink made into films David Cannadine selects thirty-three orationsFor 15 year old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna and before long, they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric and confused. For Hanna is not all that she seems. Years later, as a law student observing a trial in Germany, Michael is shocked to realise that the person on the dock is Hanna. The woman he has loved is a