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My double life : the memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt /
My Double Life is the autobiography of the French actress Sarah Bernhardt, who was internationally famed during her lifetime and afterwards as one of the classical theater's all-time greatest stars. Bernhardt's memoirs are composed with a novelist's (or actress's) sense of artist...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©1999.
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| Colección: | SUNY series, women writers in translation.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | My Double Life is the autobiography of the French actress Sarah Bernhardt, who was internationally famed during her lifetime and afterwards as one of the classical theater's all-time greatest stars. Bernhardt's memoirs are composed with a novelist's (or actress's) sense of artistry and suspense that leaves no doubt of the charisma for which she was famed in her "double life," both on- and offstage. Yet at the same time as this book very consciously contributes to the crafting of her image, it also illuminates a whole era: not only the world of theater, but also the worlds of women, politics, society, Europe and America, and, indeed, of history making itself |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 345 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-332) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585069182 9780585069180 9780791496572 0791496570 |