Orson Welles

Set in nineteenth-century Macao, a wealthy aging merchant with no heirs and no spouse becomes obsessed with a tale about a rich man who gives a poor sailor a small sum of money to impregnate his wife.

"Marching Song is a play written by Orson Welles and Roger Hill about the abolitionist, John Brown. Welles and Hill collaborated on the play when Welles was seventeen and attending the Todd School for Boys, where Hill was the head schoolmaster"--

Research through the international underground leaves a younger adventurer still alive, but burdened with a dangerous secret. Based on the script of the author's motion picture, "Confidential report."

"Orson Welles, famous actor, writer, producer and visionary director, whose works span the media of theater, radio, film and television, had originally aspired to become a musician or artist. After studying at the Art Institute of Chicago at the age of sixteen, he continued to draw and paint throughout his life. The majority of his art--including costume and set designs for his films and theater productions, and personal paintings, sketches and doodles--has...

Set in the seedy underworld of post-war Europe, the novel focuses on the sinister figure of Gregory Arkadin, a fabulously wealthy and influential financier, who enlists the services of a small-time racketeer, Van Stratten, for an extraordinary assignment. Arkadin claims that he can remember nothing of his life prior to the moment in 1927 when he found himself alone in Zurich with two hundred throusand Swiss francs in his pocket -- a sum with which...

A humorous look at the ages of man. Includes eras through the French Revolution.

A brilliant, moving portrayal of an aristocratic American family in what many critics consider a masterpiece equal to Citizen Kane. Based on a novel by Booth Tarkington, the drama begins in the 1870s when the Amberson family is at the height of its wealth and prestige. But the day arrives when all the Ambersons are stunned by the truth of their financial ruin.

Alone at his fantastic estate known as Xanadu, 70-year-old Charles Foster Kane dies, uttering only the single word Rosebud. So ends the odyssey of a life, and begins a fabulous tale of the rise to wealth and power, and ultimate fall, of a complex man.

John Blackthorne is a ship-wrecked English navigator who becomes both an observer and a participant in historic changes in Japan during the Tokugawa, or, Edo period. Toranaga is a feuding warlord vying to become the supreme military dictator, or shōgun. Blackthorne is drawn into the turmoil and becomes determined to be the first foreigner to become a samurai warrior.