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Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2009

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A dual portrait of the creative lives and families of theatrical icon Ellen Terry and actor-manager Henry Irving explores the pivotal ways in which they shaped and influenced the arts, covering such topics as their creation of a cathedral of the arts in London's Lyceum Theatre, their reinvention of Shakespeare for period audiences, and the ways in which their children struggled to escape the their parents' fame.

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Knighted for his services to literature, Michael Holroyd is the author of acclaimed biographies of George Bernard Shaw, the painter Augustus John, and Lytton Strachey, as well as two memoirs. He is the president of the Royal Society of Literature and the only nonfiction writer to have been awarded the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He lives in London with his wife, the novelist Margaret Drabble.

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Buchbeschreibung Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. BRILLIANT: CAPTIVATING: EPIC: BEWITCHING: INCISIVE: CLASSIC: FABULOUS: DELIGHTFUL: NEW Stated First Am. Ed. (2009) w/ full no. line showing First Printing, NEW unclipped mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $40.00 pub. price at top-right inside-font flyleaf, EXCELLENT black paper-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & w/ titles handsomely gilt-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & blue-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT paper * 6.24" x 9.24" x 1.96", 1.00 kg, xx+620 (640) pp * 3 inserts (8-pp ea) of choice b-w photos & b-w & color illus. presented on gloss-laminated paper (between pp. 172 & 173, 300 & 301, 460 & 461) * CONTENTS: Outline of Sources, Select Bibliography, Index * ABOUT THE BOOK: Deemed "a prodigy among biographers" by The NYTBR, Michael Holroyd transformed biography into an art. Now he turns his keen observation, humane insight & 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 & 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 & Irving created a powerhouse of the arts in London?s Lyceum Theatre, w/ Bram Stoker (who would go on to write 'Dracula') as manager. Celebrities whose scandalous private lives commanded global attention, they took America by storm in 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 & 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 & the most perplexing inability to realize them. A now forgotten modernist visionary, he collaborated w/ 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 & fathered 13 children by 8 women, including a daughter w/ 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 BEWITICHING fantasies played out by its subjects. Bursting w/ 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. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "A FABULOUS cavalcade of a book, written w/ infectious verve & deep imaginative sympathy." -John Carey, The Sunday Times (London) "DELIGHTFUL . . . CAPTIVATING." -The Economist * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Knighted for his services to literature, MICHAEL HOLROYD is the author of acclaimed biographies of George Bernard Shaw, the painter Augustus John, and Lytton Strachey, as well as two memoirs. President of the Royal Society of Literature & the only nonfiction writer to have been awarded the David Cohen British Literature Prize, He lives in London w/ his wife, the novelist Margaret Drabble. * SHIPPING: We custom wrap & label & securely package this SUPERB book for FREE shipment within the United States via USPS Media MaiL (or via USPS Priority Mail for a nominal $10.00 charge) and at our posted rates to international destinations via USPS First Class Airmail. Bestandsnummer des Verk�ufers 010125

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