Jamal Wallace er en yderst velbegavet ung sort dreng, som er vokset op i Bronx. Både i skolen og på basketball-banen er hans talent ikke sådan at overse, og netop det skaffer ham billet til et overklasse-college. Da han begynder at aflevere nogle meget geniale skriftlige opgaver, får en bitter lektor, som ikke selv kan forfatte noget stort og derfor mener, at han skal lære andre kunsten, en mistanke om, at Jamal snyder. En sort knægt fra Bronx kan umuligt have skrevet, hvad Jamal rent faktisk gør! Sideløbende er Jamal, uden at vide det, stødt på forfatteren til et yderst hædret og berømt mesterværk med den sigende titel Avalon Landing, nemlig William Forrester.
Harold Meadows is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guidebook, The Secret of Making Love, for other bashful young men. Fate has him meet rich girl Mary, and they fall in love. But she is about to wed an already married man, so our hero embarks upon a hair-raising daredevil ride to prevent the wedding.
Den 28-årige autist Wendy Walcott elsker at danse, når hun hører musik på sin iPod samt at strikke sweatre. For at bevise over for sin søster Audrey, at hun kan rent faktisk godt kan tage vare på sig selv, stikker Wendy en dag af fra sin plejebolig for at aflevere sit 500 sider lange Star Trek-manuskript til en skrivekonkurrence.
Helmut is fed up traveling around he world. Coming back from Asia, he decides to stay some time in Alexandra's house, a long time friend. She is living on a beautiful island where she is doing art. From his travels, Helmut brought back some old manuscript about secret rites that he decides to share with Alexandra after restarting a sexual relationship with her
Filmen 'Mysteriet om Henri Pick' handler om en ung redaktør i et specialbibliotek i Bretagne, som finder et aldeles fremragende og mageløst manuskript.
Teksten er underskrevet af den afdøde lokale pizzabager Henri Pick, der ifølge hans enke aldrig forfattede noget, som var mere sofistikeret end en indkøbsseddel.
Den anerkendte litteraturkritiker Jean-Michel Rouche aner, at noget ikke stemmer og bestemmer sig for at undersøge sagen nærmere sammen med Henri Picks datter. For hvem var Henri Pick egentlig?
David, a waiter, finds an unpublished manuscript in a dresser drawer. To impress a girl, he claims to be the author. When the novel becomes a best-seller, the real author introduces himself and begins to take over David's life.
The National Library of France is the guardian of priceless treasures that tell our history, our illustrious thinkers, writers, scholars and artists. Telling the story of the exceptional treasures of the National Library of France is like opening a great history book rich in many twists and turns. Without the love of the kings of France for books and precious objects, this institution would never have seen the light of day. The story begins in the 14th century under the reign of a passionate writer, Charles V, who set up a library in his apartments in the Louvre. But it was not until the 17th century, and the reign of Louis XIV, a lover of the arts and letters, that the royal library took over its historic quarters in the rue Vivienne in Paris, which it still occupies.
1997: A student of folklore named Andrea Roberti disappears after hypothesizing a possible link between the horror literature of H.P. Lovecraft and the dark folk tales of the Po Delta, a mysterious and remote part of northern Italy.
This animated short challenges enduring myths, spawned by fairy tales and romances, about women in medieval society. It explores the differences and similarities between that distant period and our own, and shows what medieval women’s lives were really like.
Joel loses everything in his blind pursuit to find a manuscript lost to time.