9780374270803 - A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families de Holroyd, Michael (26 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condición: Very Good.

Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Former library book with minimal markings. Small stain on side edge.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good-. First Printing. DJ has a barcode sticker on the back.

hardcover. Condición: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condición: Used-Very Good. First Edition. Cloth, dj. Minor shelf-wear to dj.

hardcover. Condición: very good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: very good. Illustrated. xviii + 620 pages. 8vo, cloth-backed boards, dust wrapper. New York: Farrar, Straux and Giroux, (2009). A near-fine copy in a very good (+) dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 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.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Internally clean, unmarked, firm hinges, sharp corners & DJ in VG+ condition. BP/Bios.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: 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: MICHAEL HOLROYD, knighted for his services to literature, 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 excellent book for FREE shipment within the United States via USPS Media MaiL or via USPS Priority Mail for a below cost $14.00 fee, & internationally via USPS First Class Airmail at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. 6.41 X 2.17 X 9.32 inches; 620 pages; B&W and color illustrations. Few very minor, faint smudges and scratches on the exterior edges of textblock. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings. DJ is not price-clipped. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

Very good in lightly edgeworn dust jacket. First Printing Hardcover Bar code sticker on back jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Bargain book!

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. First American Edition/First Printing, 2009. Hardcover in unclipped dustjacket. 620 pages, with color photographs. The author evokes the mysterious world of the Victorian and Edwardian theater, the hiss of the gas footlights, the coloured lights and smoke, with all the attention to detail of the star-struck fan seated in the front stalls. Captivating. As new. Unread. From my smoke-free collection. Ships in well-padded box.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. This is a stated First American edition of A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families by the British biographer Michael Holroyd. It is the story of the professional partnership between two Victorian actors Ellen Terry (1847-1928) and Henry Irving (1838-1905), how they became the uber-celebrities of their age, how they captivated audiences with their brilliant performances and how, through their children, they created two theatrical dynasties. The book is full of fascinating people and events and this book has been lauded as a masterpiece. It's a heavy book - 620 pages, including photographs. This copy has not been read, or even opened. The (unclipped) dust jacket has one tiny tear at one corner but is otherwise perfect. The book is pristine.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. First Edition stated, with correct number line sequence, no writing, marks, underlining, or bookplates. No remainder marks. Spine is tight and crisp. Boards are flat and true and the corners are square. Dust jacket is not price-clipped. This collectible, " NEW" condition first edition/first printing copy is protected with a polyester archival dust jacket cover. Beautiful collectible copy. Pristine. GIFT QUALITY Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hard Cover. Condición: Near Fine+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st US Edition/1st Printing. SIGNED by author on a bookplate on front end page (signature only). $40.00 price present on DJ flap. Signed by Author.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st. Hardcover first edition in very good condition with a mylar wrapped dust jacket.

hardcover. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!