Author: Anthony Hope
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849648168
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The " Dolly Dialogues " serve much the same purpose that the ballet does in an opera—they are a divertissement pure and simple. The winsome, irresponsible "Dolly" picks her steps amid the conversational pitfalls which the adroit " Mr. Carter" spreads for her, with as much dainty sureness as a premiere danseuse, and we cannot but admire and applaud her grace and vivacity. There is no hidden meaning to the "Dialogues " any more than there is to "Dolly." They but reveal the polished inanity of the modern ball-room, the fashionable frivolity of the five o'clock tea-table, and the harmless flirtations of the lawn-tennis court. As "trifles light as air," Mr. Hope offered them to us; as trifles we accept them, and who but the most nobly serious could refuse to smile over their gracefulness, their immaculate innuendo! As a hand-book on "Polite Conversations; or, The Art of Saying Nothing Gracefully," these " Dolly Dialogues " might almost take rank as a serious classic.
The Dolly Dialogues
Author: Anthony Hope
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The " Dolly Dialogues " serve much the same purpose that the ballet does in an opera—they are a divertissement pure and simple. The winsome, irresponsible "Dolly" picks her steps amid the conversational pitfalls which the adroit " Mr. Carter" spreads for her, with as much dainty sureness as a premiere danseuse, and we cannot but admire and applaud her grace and vivacity. There is no hidden meaning to the "Dialogues " any more than there is to "Dolly." They but reveal the polished inanity of the modern ball-room, the fashionable frivolity of the five o'clock tea-table, and the harmless flirtations of the lawn-tennis court. As "trifles light as air," Mr. Hope offered them to us; as trifles we accept them, and who but the most nobly serious could refuse to smile over their gracefulness, their immaculate innuendo! As a hand-book on "Polite Conversations; or, The Art of Saying Nothing Gracefully," these " Dolly Dialogues " might almost take rank as a serious classic.
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The " Dolly Dialogues " serve much the same purpose that the ballet does in an opera—they are a divertissement pure and simple. The winsome, irresponsible "Dolly" picks her steps amid the conversational pitfalls which the adroit " Mr. Carter" spreads for her, with as much dainty sureness as a premiere danseuse, and we cannot but admire and applaud her grace and vivacity. There is no hidden meaning to the "Dialogues " any more than there is to "Dolly." They but reveal the polished inanity of the modern ball-room, the fashionable frivolity of the five o'clock tea-table, and the harmless flirtations of the lawn-tennis court. As "trifles light as air," Mr. Hope offered them to us; as trifles we accept them, and who but the most nobly serious could refuse to smile over their gracefulness, their immaculate innuendo! As a hand-book on "Polite Conversations; or, The Art of Saying Nothing Gracefully," these " Dolly Dialogues " might almost take rank as a serious classic.
The dolly dialogues by Anthony Hope [d. i. Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins.]
Author: Anthony Hope
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Index to Short Stories
Author:
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Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
After-glow
Author: Lelia Caperton Stiles
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
A Servant of the Public
Author: Anthony Hope
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849648052
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
It is easy to be enthusiastic about the story. It is psychologic—but with a difference, the difference being the bright and compelling interest of Mr. Hope's dialogue, and the smiling sanity of his spirit. Imagine much that is best in Meredith or James, and all that is best in Anthony Hope, and you have a fair idea of ' A Servant of the Public'. It is not the conventional story of the stage, with glib talk of the greenroom, and intimate glimpses 'behind the footlights.' It is the story of an actress off, rather than on, the stage—an analysis of the theatrical, perhaps 'artistic' temperament.
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849648052
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
It is easy to be enthusiastic about the story. It is psychologic—but with a difference, the difference being the bright and compelling interest of Mr. Hope's dialogue, and the smiling sanity of his spirit. Imagine much that is best in Meredith or James, and all that is best in Anthony Hope, and you have a fair idea of ' A Servant of the Public'. It is not the conventional story of the stage, with glib talk of the greenroom, and intimate glimpses 'behind the footlights.' It is the story of an actress off, rather than on, the stage—an analysis of the theatrical, perhaps 'artistic' temperament.
Beaumaroy Home from the Wars
Author: Anthony Hope
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849648133
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
The scene of this story of mystery and romance is laid in the little town of Inkston, near London, shortly after the world war. Interest centers in three characters: the "puzzling unaccounted-for Mr Beaumaroy," recently of the British army overseas, now companion to an eccentric old man; the old man himself, Aloyslus William Saffron, lonely and crazed by the war, who lives in Tower cottage; and Dr Mary Arkroyd, who attends Mr Saffron in his last illness and who changes her mind about Hector Beaumaroy.
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849648133
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
The scene of this story of mystery and romance is laid in the little town of Inkston, near London, shortly after the world war. Interest centers in three characters: the "puzzling unaccounted-for Mr Beaumaroy," recently of the British army overseas, now companion to an eccentric old man; the old man himself, Aloyslus William Saffron, lonely and crazed by the war, who lives in Tower cottage; and Dr Mary Arkroyd, who attends Mr Saffron in his last illness and who changes her mind about Hector Beaumaroy.
Index to Poetry and Recitations
Author:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
An Index to Poetry and Recitations
Author: Edith Granger
Publisher: Chicago : A.C. McClurg
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
Publisher: Chicago : A.C. McClurg
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
Suppressed Chapters and Other Bookishness
Author: Robert Bridges
Publisher: New York Scribner's Sons 1895.
ISBN:
Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher: New York Scribner's Sons 1895.
ISBN:
Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Bookman
Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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