Author: Susan Bradford Eppes
Publisher: Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
ISBN: 9781425540326
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Through Some Eventful Years
Author: Susan Bradford Eppes
Publisher: Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
ISBN: 9781425540326
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher: Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
ISBN: 9781425540326
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Time
Author: Briton Hadden
Publisher:
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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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Reels for 1973- include Time index, 1973-
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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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Reels for 1973- include Time index, 1973-
A Strange Eventful History
Author: Michael Holroyd
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429939044
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EBOOK DOES NOT CONTAIN PHOTOS INCLUDED IN THE PRINT EDITION. Deemed "a prodigy among biographers" by The New York Times Book Review, Michael Holroyd transformed biography into an art. Now he turns his keen observation, humane insight, and epic scope on an ensemble cast, a remarkable dynasty that presided over the golden age of theater. Ellen Terry was an ethereal beauty, the child bride of a Pre-Raphaelite painter who made her the face of the age. George Bernard Shaw was so besotted by her gifts that he could not bear to meet her, lest the spell she cast from the stage be broken. Henry Irving was an ambitious, harsh-voiced merchant's clerk, but once he painted his face and spoke the lines of Shakespeare, his stammer fell away to reveal a magnetic presence. He would become one of the greatest actor-managers in the history of the theater. Together, Terry and Irving created a powerhouse of the arts in London's Lyceum Theatre, with Bram Stoker—who would go on to write Dracula—as manager. Celebrities whose scandalous private lives commanded global attention, they took America by stormin wildly popular national tours. Their all-consuming professional lives left little room for their brilliant but troubled children. Henry's boys followed their father into the theater but could not escape the shadow of his fame. Ellen's feminist daughter, Edy, founded an avant-garde theater and a largely lesbian community at her mother's country home. But it was Edy's son, the revolutionary theatrical designer Edward Gordon Craig, who possessed the most remarkable gifts and the most perplexing inability to realize them. A now forgotten modernist visionary, he collaborated with the Russian director Stanislavski on a production of Hamlet that forever changed the way theater was staged. Maddeningly self-absorbed, he inherited his mother's potent charm and fathered thirteen children by eight women, including a daughter with the dancer Isadora Duncan. An epic story spanning a century of cultural change, A Strange Eventful History finds space for the intimate moments of daily existence as well as the bewitching fantasies played out by its subjects. Bursting with charismatic life, it is an incisive portrait of two families who defied the strictures of their time. It will be swiftly recognized as a classic. Please note: This ebook edition does not contain photos and illustrations that appeared in the print edition.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429939044
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
PLEASE NOTE: THIS EBOOK DOES NOT CONTAIN PHOTOS INCLUDED IN THE PRINT EDITION. Deemed "a prodigy among biographers" by The New York Times Book Review, Michael Holroyd transformed biography into an art. Now he turns his keen observation, humane insight, and epic scope on an ensemble cast, a remarkable dynasty that presided over the golden age of theater. Ellen Terry was an ethereal beauty, the child bride of a Pre-Raphaelite painter who made her the face of the age. George Bernard Shaw was so besotted by her gifts that he could not bear to meet her, lest the spell she cast from the stage be broken. Henry Irving was an ambitious, harsh-voiced merchant's clerk, but once he painted his face and spoke the lines of Shakespeare, his stammer fell away to reveal a magnetic presence. He would become one of the greatest actor-managers in the history of the theater. Together, Terry and Irving created a powerhouse of the arts in London's Lyceum Theatre, with Bram Stoker—who would go on to write Dracula—as manager. Celebrities whose scandalous private lives commanded global attention, they took America by stormin wildly popular national tours. Their all-consuming professional lives left little room for their brilliant but troubled children. Henry's boys followed their father into the theater but could not escape the shadow of his fame. Ellen's feminist daughter, Edy, founded an avant-garde theater and a largely lesbian community at her mother's country home. But it was Edy's son, the revolutionary theatrical designer Edward Gordon Craig, who possessed the most remarkable gifts and the most perplexing inability to realize them. A now forgotten modernist visionary, he collaborated with the Russian director Stanislavski on a production of Hamlet that forever changed the way theater was staged. Maddeningly self-absorbed, he inherited his mother's potent charm and fathered thirteen children by eight women, including a daughter with the dancer Isadora Duncan. An epic story spanning a century of cultural change, A Strange Eventful History finds space for the intimate moments of daily existence as well as the bewitching fantasies played out by its subjects. Bursting with charismatic life, it is an incisive portrait of two families who defied the strictures of their time. It will be swiftly recognized as a classic. Please note: This ebook edition does not contain photos and illustrations that appeared in the print edition.
The Mentor
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 800
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Languages : en
Pages : 800
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Outlook and Independent
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Languages : en
Pages : 758
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Languages : en
Pages : 758
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The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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The Atlantic Monthly
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Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
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Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
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The Adelphi
Author: John Middleton Murry
Publisher:
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Category : English prose literature
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Category : English prose literature
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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The World's Work
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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The Nation
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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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Publisher:
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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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