Book Description
An engaging 1906 two-volume tribute to the most famous actor-manager of the nineteenth century by his closest friend and business manager.
Author : Bram Stoker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 42,26 MB
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1108057446
An engaging 1906 two-volume tribute to the most famous actor-manager of the nineteenth century by his closest friend and business manager.
Author : Bram Stoker
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 13,34 MB
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781333948122
Excerpt from Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving For nearly thirty years I was an intimate friend of Irving; in certain ways the most intimate friend of his life. I knew him as well as it is given to any man to know another. And this know ledge is fully in my mind, when I say that, so far as I know, there is not in this book a word of his inner life or his outer circumstances that he would wish unsaid; no omission that he would have liked filled. Let any one who will read the book through say whether I have tried to do him honour - and to do it by worthy means the honour and respect which I feel which in days gone I held for him; which now I hold for his memory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Bram Stoker
Publisher :
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 2015-08-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781332509805
Excerpt from Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving, Vol. 1 Were my book a "life" of Henry Irving instead of a gathering of such matters as came into my own purview, I should probably feel some embarrassment in the commencement of a preface. Logically speaking, even the life of an actor has no preface. He begins, and that is all. And such beginning is usually obscure; but faintly remembered at the best. Art is a completion; not merely a history of endeavour. It is only when completeness has been obtained that the beginnings of endeavour gain importance, and that the steps by which it has been won assume any shape of permanent interest. After all, the struggle for supremacy is so universal that the matters of hope and difficulty of one person are hardly of general interest. When the individual has won out from the huddle of strife, the means and steps of his succeeding become of interest, either historically or in the educational aspect - but not before. From every life there may be a lesson to some one; but in the teeming millions of humanity such lessons can but seldom have any general or exhaustive force. The mere din of strife is too incessant for any individual sound to carry far. Fame, who rides in higher atmosphere, can alone make her purpose heard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Bram Stoker
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 25,24 MB
Release : 1906
Category : History
ISBN : 5878137240
Author : Bram Stoker
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 25,92 MB
Release : 2015-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781330452011
Excerpt from Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving, Vol. 2 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Bram Stoker
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 48,69 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Actors
ISBN :
Author : Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 12,54 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Libraries
ISBN :
Author : Bram Stoker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 35,1 MB
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101549793
Of the many admiring reviews Bram Stoker's Dracula received when it first appeared in 1897, the most astute praise came from the author's mother, who wrote her son: "It is splendid. No book since Mrs. Shelley's Frankenstein or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or terror." A popular bestseller in Victorian England, Stoker's hypnotic tale of the bloodthirsty Count Dracula, whose nocturnal atrocities are symbolic of an evil ages old yet forever new, endures as the quintessential story of suspense and horror. The unbridled lusts and desires, the diabolical cravings that Stoker dramatized with such mythical force, render Dracula resonant and unsettling a century later.
Author : David Huckvale
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 33,61 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0786492759
Luchino Visconti's trilogy of films Ludwig, Death in Venice and The Damned explore the complex relationship between the themes and ideals of German Romanticism and their impact on the catastrophe of the Third Reich. The personality and works of Richard Wagner to a large extent epitomize German Romanticism as a whole, while the writings of Thomas Mann and Friedrich Nietzsche provide the greatest critique of this dark and troubled but sublime and emotionally overwhelming culture. Along with contrasting approaches to this subject by other filmmakers such as Hans-Jurgen Syberberg, Ken Russell and Tony Palmer, this book explores how the preoccupations of the German Romantic movement led to Nazism, and contrasts the ways in which filmmakers have presented this continuum. The book also discusses the impact of Wagner's musical dramas on the art form of the cinema itself.
Author : Hugh Grady
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 20,20 MB
Release : 2006-11-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 113417280X
Featuring an outstanding list of contributors, this collection of readings adopt a new approach to Shakespeare by focusing on the principles of ‘presentism’ – a critical movement that takes account of the continual dialogue between past and present.