The Lure of the Mask (Esprios Classics)

The Lure of the Mask (Esprios Classics) PDF Author: Harold Macgrath
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Harold MacGrath (September 4, 1871 - October 30, 1932) was a bestselling and prolific American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. He sometimes completed more than one novel per year for the mass market, covering romance, spies, mystery, and adventure. He was the first nationally known writer to be commissioned to write original screenplays for the new film industry. In addition, he had eighteen novels and three short stories adapted as films, in some cases more than once. Three of these novels were also adapted as plays that were produced on Broadway in New York City. MacGrath traveled extensively but was always based in Syracuse, New York, where he was born and raised.

The Lure of the Mask (Esprios Classics)

The Lure of the Mask (Esprios Classics) PDF Author: Harold Macgrath
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Category : Fiction
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Harold MacGrath (September 4, 1871 - October 30, 1932) was a bestselling and prolific American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. He sometimes completed more than one novel per year for the mass market, covering romance, spies, mystery, and adventure. He was the first nationally known writer to be commissioned to write original screenplays for the new film industry. In addition, he had eighteen novels and three short stories adapted as films, in some cases more than once. Three of these novels were also adapted as plays that were produced on Broadway in New York City. MacGrath traveled extensively but was always based in Syracuse, New York, where he was born and raised.

The Suitors of Yvonne (Esprios Classics)

The Suitors of Yvonne (Esprios Classics) PDF Author: Rafael Sabatini
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ISBN: 167814021X
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Languages : en
Pages : 194

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The History of the Thirty YearsÕ War (Esprios Classics)

The History of the Thirty YearsÕ War (Esprios Classics) PDF Author: Friedrich von Schiller
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ISBN: 1794891331
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Pages : 324

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Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad (Esprios Classics)

Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad (Esprios Classics) PDF Author: Edith Van Dyne
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ISBN: 1794827439
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Languages : en
Pages : 219

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The Lure of the Mask

The Lure of the Mask PDF Author: Harold MacGrath
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Category : Secrecy
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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The Lure of the Mask Annotated

The Lure of the Mask Annotated PDF Author: Harold Macgrath
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Pages : 316

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The Lure of the Mask is a 1908 novel by Harold MacGrath that was the fourth-best selling book in the United States for that year.In 1906-07, MacGrath made visits to Italy, and his impressions from those trips inspired the novel.The story opens with a jump--literally. A young New Yorker, rich, of course, hears from his window on a night of fog and mist a woman's voice singing divinely. He falls in love with it head over heels and he falls downstairs in about the same way, he is such a hurry to see the singer. But by the time her reaches the street, lo! she has vanished, and only a policeman remains. Late on, this young, adventurous Mr. Hillard again meets the young, adventurous singer under most mystifying circumstances. They dine together, but she comes in mask. What the voice has begun, the masks puts the finishing touches to. From then on Hillard is full forty fathoms deep in love and curiosity. Then the scene shifts to Italy, with the shifting fortunes of an American comic opera company, stranded at Venice.

The Lure of the Mask

The Lure of the Mask PDF Author: Harold Macgrath
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Pages : 316

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The Lure of the Mask is a 1908 novel by Harold MacGrath that was the fourth-best selling book in the United States for that year.In 1906-07, MacGrath made visits to Italy, and his impressions from those trips inspired the novel.A 1908 review of the book summarizes the light plot of the story in overenthusiastic fashion: The story opens with a jump--literally. A young New Yorker, rich, of course, hears from his window on a night of fog and mist a woman's voice singing divinely. He falls in love with it head over heels and he falls downstairs in about the same way, he is such a hurry to see the singer. But by the time her reaches the street, lo! she has vanished, and only a policeman remains

Lady Windermere's Fan

Lady Windermere's Fan PDF Author: Oscar Wilde
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first produced 22 February 1892 at the St James's Theatre in London. The play was first published in 1893. Like many of Wilde's comedies, it bitingly satirizes the morals of society.The story concerns Lady Windermere, who suspects that her husband is having an affair with another woman. She confronts him with it but although he denies it, he invites the other woman, Mrs Erlynne, to his wife's birthday ball. Angered by her husband's supposed unfaithfulness, Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband for another lover. After discovering what has transpired, Mrs Erlynne follows Lady Windermere and attempts to persuade her to return to her husband and in the course of this, Mrs Erlynne is discovered in a compromising position. It is then revealed Mrs Erlynne is Lady Windermere's mother, who abandoned her family twenty years before the time the play is set. Mrs Erlynne sacrifices herself and her reputation to save her daughter's marriage. The best known line of the play sums up the central theme.

The Lure of the Mask

The Lure of the Mask PDF Author: Harold Macgrath
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ISBN: 9781654390570
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Languages : en
Pages : 252

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1908. With illustrations by Harrison Fisher and Carl Anderson. MacGrath, a prolific writer, wrote for newspapers until 1890 when he published his first novel Arms and the Woman. The Lure of the Mask begins: Out of the unromantic night, out of the somber blurring January fog, came a voice lifted in song, a soprano, rich, full and round, young yet matured, sweet and mysterious as a night-bird's, haunting and elusive as the murmur of the sea in a shell: a lilt from La Fille de Madame Ango, a light opera long since forgotten in New York. Hillard, genuinely astonished, lowered his pipe and listened. To sit dreaming by an open window, even in this unlovely first month of the year, in that grim unhandsome city which boasts of its riches and still accepts with smug content its rows upon rows of ugly architecture, to sit dreaming, then, of red-tiled roofs, of cloud-caressed hills, of terraced vineyards, of cypresses in their dark aloofness, is not out of the natural order of things; but that into this idle and pleasant dream there should enter so divine a voice, living, feeling, pulsing, this was not ordinary at all. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

The Lure of the Mask

The Lure of the Mask PDF Author: Harold Macgrath
Publisher: Independently Published
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Languages : en
Pages : 264

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The Lure of the Mask is a 1908 novel by Harold MacGrath that was the fourth-best selling book in the United States for that year.In 1906-07, MacGrath made visits to Italy, and his impressions from those trips inspired the novel.