masterwork

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I confess that at the time I hadn’t read Thoreau’s sandy masterwork.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Mantello’s barnacle-stripping revival of Arthur Miller’s masterwork — elevated by the stalwart brilliance of Metcalf’s Linda — reaches its full cathartic force in the final scene between Nathan Lane’s Willy Loman and Christopher Abbott’s Biff.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

“Completed in 2019 and designed by Don Ziebell, it is a masterwork combining subtle finishes and exquisite details.”

From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 2026

At its London premiere before coronavirus closed the theatres, The Standard newspaper described it as a "late masterwork... wise, witty and devastatingly sad".

From Barron's • Nov. 29, 2025

Here he is in his 1795 masterwork, A Theory of the Earth with Proofs and Illustrations, discussing...something:

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson