holroyd michael 1935 (5 Ergebnisse)

1st edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description: xxxv, 780 p, plates : ill.(some col.), ports (3 col.) ; 23cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Strachey, Lytton 1880-1932 Biography; Bloomsbury group Biography; Writers, England. 3 Kg.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Illustrated end papers. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xxxiii, 715 pages: illustrations (some color), portraits; 24 cm. Notes: Includes index. Subjects: John, Augustus 1879-1961. Painters Wales; Biography. Bohemianism Great Britain. Painting, Modern 20th century. Bohemianism. Painters. Painting, Modern. Painting, Modern 20th century Great Britain. Painters Great Britain; Biography. Painters Great Britain; Biography.Great Britain. Wales. Painting. Wales. Genre: Biographies. Illustrated. 4 Kg.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Ex-Library Book. Has usual library markings Photograph available on request.

Near fine cloth copies in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, not price-clipped, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 2 vol.: 475, 754 pages, illustrations ; 26 cm. Notes; Published 1967-1968. Contents; Vol. 1 The unknown years (1880-1910) -- Vol. 2 The years of achievement (1910-1932). Subjects; Strachey, Lytton 1880-1932. Authors, English 20th century ; Biography. English literature. 3 Kg. Volume I (reprint), Volume II (1st edition).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 3 volumes ; illustrations ; 25 cm ; ISBN: 0394525779 ((v. 1)); 9780394525778 ((v. 1)); 0394575539 ((v. 2)); 9780394575537 ((v. 2)); 0394575547 ((v. 3)); 9780394575544 ((v. 3)); 067941987X ; LC: PR5366; Dewey: 822/.912; B; NLC: PR5366; NLM: B S534ho ; OCLC: 213536853 ; black and grey, black and purple, black and tan cloth in photographic dustjackets ; "To his own generation Bernard Shaw's greatest creation seemed to be himself. Playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist and irresistible charmer, he was the most controversial literary figure of his age and the scourge of all that was most oppressive in late-Victorian England. In his writing and public speeches, he embodied the unfamiliar virtues of reason, sense and unanswerable good humor. And yet, as the opening volume of this masterly four-volume biography makes clear, Shaw's invention of this monumental figure was a paradoxical method of concealment and his way of coming to terms with a world that had abandoned him in childhood. - Jacket flap." ; v. 1. 1856-1898, the search for love -- v. 2. 1898-1918, the pursuit of power -- v. 3. 1918-1950, the lure of fantasy ; "When Michael Holroyd's multivolume life of Bernard Shaw was published, it was hailed as a masterpiece, and William Golding predicted that it would take its place "among the great biographies." Now the biography is available for the first time in a lively and accessible abridgment by the author. This is the quintessence of Shaw. The narrative has a new verve and pace, and the light and shade of Shaw's world are more dramatically revealed as Holroyd counterpoints the private and public Shaw with inimitable insight and scholarship. Playwright, wit, socialist, polemicist, vegetarian, and irresistible charmer, Bernard Shaw was the most controversial literary figure of his age, the scourge of Victorian values and middle-class pretensions. Born in Dublin in 1856, he grew up there, a lonely child in an unsettling ménage à trois. His father, George Carr Shaw, had turned to drink, and his mother was muse to a Svengali-like music teacher whom she followed to London. The young Shaw, anxious to escape his heritage, also left for London to reinvent himself as the legendary G.B.S.--novelist, lover, politician, music critic, and finally playwright. From his first passionate affair with a beautiful middle-aged widow, he moved on to flirtations and liaisons with young actresses and socialists before finally settling into marriage in 1898. At the turn of the century, Shaw was in his prime, a theatrical impresario and author of those great campaigning plays--Man and Superman, Major Barbara, The Doctor's Dilemma, and John Bull's Other Island--that used laughter as an anesthetic for the operation he performed on British society. By 1914 the author of Pygmalion was the most popular writer in England, and increasingly recognized throughout Europe and America. Though ready with advice to others on how to stay married, he fell painfully in love with two of the most dazzling actresses of the age, Ellen Terry and Mrs. Patrick Campbell. The reluctant recipient of a Nobel Prize for literature and an Academy Award for his screenplay for Pygmalion, Shaw became an international icon between the two world wars, feted from China and Soviet Russia to India and New Zealand, though still contriving to provoke the establishment in the United States, South Africa, and Ireland. In old age he was vigorous and prolific, espousing many new and quixotic causes. He revealed himself increasingly as conjurer, fabulist, and seer through his powerful late works, including Saint Joan, the Chekhovian Heartbreak House, the modernist fantasy Back to Methuselah, and the imaginative dream plays and political extravaganzas. Covering almost a century, from 1856 to 1950, this unparalleled life of Shaw presents the magnificent double portrait of an age and of a man who was born fifty years too soon." ; FINE/FINE. Book.