Автор: Strachan Alan Название: Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh ISBN: 0755600576 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780755600571 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 2019.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize 2020
Vivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the twentieth century. As Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche Du Bois she took on some of the most pivotal roles in cinema history. Yet she was also a talented theatre actress with West End and Broadway plaudits to her name. In this ground-breaking new biography, Alan Strachan provides a completely new full-life portrait of Leigh, covering both her professional and personal life. Using previously unseen sources from her archive, recently acquired by the V&A, he sheds new light on her fractious relationship with Laurence Olivier, based on their letters and diaries, as well as on the bipolar disorder which so affected her later life and work. Revealing new aspects of her early life as well as providing glimpses behind-the-scenes of the filming of Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire, this book provides the essential and comprehensive life-story of one of the twentieth century's greatest actresses. 'A gripping new biography' - The Daily Mail ' Vivien Leigh's] life, lived to the full at every second, will never be better told than it is in these pages' - The Sunday Times 'One of the most revealing showbiz biographies ever' - Sir Ian McKellen 'Enthralling' - Michael Codron 'A wonderful tribute' - Dame Penelope Keith DBE, DL
Автор: Ferrars E. X. Название: Frog in the Throat ISBN: 1631942603 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781631942600 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2200.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Virginia's trouble is that whenever something awful happens, it is far too easy to imagine that her husband, Felix, is behind it somehow. She doesn't want to believe this; after all, even if they haven't lived together for ages, at one time she was terribly fond of him. He's quite charming, he dresses well, he knows wine...he would have been a perfectly satisfactory husband if he weren't such an utter cad He lies, you see. He lies the way other people brush hair off their foreheads, all the time and without even noticing they're doing it.
Virginia has even managed to tell herself that this is a useful trait, that because Felix is such a scoundrel, he has a special genius for sniffing out other people's lies, and this makes him a good detective. And perhaps he is, but there's no denying that when awful things happen, Felix is often nearby. The latest awfulness is a local writer shot dead on the eve of her engagement—and right on time, Felix has turned up, like a charming, well-dressed, bad penny.
Автор: Ferrars, Vivien Название: Accursed ISBN: 1528985486 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781528985482 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2200.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Piemonte, 1894. Maria, the impoverished daughter of a once affluent farming family, faces a painful choice: live as a poor relation in her brother's wife's household, or marry a newcomer to the county, the game warden brought in by Maria's mother's godmother, who is the chatelaine of one of the principal estates of the area. She chooses marriage, and it proves to be a disastrous choice. Her husband, Mat , turns out to be a dishonest, violent drunkard who is soon dismissed by his employer for...poaching. A profoundly devout Catholic, Maria appeals to her confessor for guidance; he tells her that it is a wife's duty to receive her husband - even if he is a drunken lout. To refuse him is a mortal sin. She is trapped. But she is not alone: she has friends, and they rally to her. Her own upright character earns her the respect and loyalty of those who know her. Years pass. Maria gives birth to child after child, desperately trying to maintain some decency, to protect her growing family against the shambles Mat makes of their chances. WWI breaks out, depleting the countryside of its young men. Maria's first-born son goes missing in action. He is not heard of again. Through it all, Maria struggles to support her family, to pay off her small farm and to maintain her faith, which falters when, the war over, her second youngest son, -Sandr n, falls victim to diphtheria after the epidemic is over.
Автор: Ferrars, Vivien Название: Accursed ISBN: 1528985494 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781528985499 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3993.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Piemonte, 1894. Maria, the impoverished daughter of a once affluent farming family, faces a painful choice: live as a poor relation in her brother's wife's household, or marry a newcomer to the county, the game warden brought in by Maria's mother's godmother, who is the chatelaine of one of the principal estates of the area. She chooses marriage, and it proves to be a disastrous choice. Her husband, Mat , turns out to be a dishonest, violent drunkard who is soon dismissed by his employer for...poaching. A profoundly devout Catholic, Maria appeals to her confessor for guidance; he tells her that it is a wife's duty to receive her husband - even if he is a drunken lout. To refuse him is a mortal sin. She is trapped. But she is not alone: she has friends, and they rally to her. Her own upright character earns her the respect and loyalty of those who know her. Years pass. Maria gives birth to child after child, desperately trying to maintain some decency, to protect her growing family against the shambles Mat makes of their chances. WWI breaks out, depleting the countryside of its young men. Maria's first-born son goes missing in action. He is not heard of again. Through it all, Maria struggles to support her family, to pay off her small farm and to maintain her faith, which falters when, the war over, her second youngest son, -Sandr n, falls victim to diphtheria after the epidemic is over.
Автор: Ferrars, Vivien Название: Ten miles and worlds apart ISBN: 1528982002 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781528982009 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4683.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: In 1925, in a small church at the outskirts of Turin, Pier Venturi sings at mass each Sunday, his pure voice lending exquisite grace to the familiar litany of prayers. Pier's talents do not go unnoticed for long, and the day he rides his bicycle into the city centre for the first time, anxiously anticipating a place in the grand cathedral choir, his life changes forever. With his eyes opened to the glittering life of the -gentry, his budding love for opera develops into a -burning desire for the theatre, for literature, for music - in short, for a cultured life - awakening in him a passion he could never have imagined. Meantime, at the FIAT car factory where he works, his incipient refinement catches the eye of the beautiful Lena with its echoes of the perceived perfections of her first - and lost - love, a scion of a Florence haute bourgeoisie family, whom he re-joins at the end of his legal studies in Turin. Pier and Lena soon fall deeply in love, but this love becomes for Pier a further source of conflict and guilt because her sweet and simple working-class desires clash with his passionate craving for a cultured life. As operatic fame beckons and a sultry mezzo-soprano stirs Pier in all the wrong ways, he must decide where his true aspirations lie and overcome the crushing burden of suspicion, mistrust and self-doubt that is the -legacy of his brutish and unhappy childhood.
Автор: Ferrars, E. X. Название: Hobby Of Murder ISBN: 0385506902 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385506908 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1379.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Ferrars, Elizabeth Название: Sleeping Dogs ISBN: 1471907104 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781471907104 Издательство: Orion Рейтинг: Цена: 2883.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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What happens to a woman after she has been acquitted of murder? Can she ever take up a normal life? And what happens when a journalist sees easy money in ghostwriting her memoirs?
What happens when a helpful young woman, checking on the details of the story, gets caught up in the ugly world that surrounds Teresa Swale, legally acquitted - and possibly a victim herself - of murder?
'A consummate professional in clever plotting' "Washington Post"
Автор: Ferrars, Elizabeth Название: Fear the Light ISBN: 1471907082 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781471907081 Издательство: Orion Рейтинг: Цена: 2883.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Ferrars, Elizabeth Название: Ninth Life ISBN: 1471907163 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781471907166 Издательство: Orion Рейтинг: Цена: 2883.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: One of the best-loved and most prolific crime writers of her generation.
Автор: Ferrars, Elizabeth Название: Unreasonable Doubt ISBN: 1471907066 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781471907067 Издательство: Orion Рейтинг: Цена: 2883.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: `There are few detective-story writers so consistently good` Sunday Times
Автор: Ferrars, Elizabeth Название: Furnished for Murder ISBN: 147190704X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781471907043 Издательство: Orion Рейтинг: Цена: 2883.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: `There are few detective-story writers so consistently good` Sunday Times
Автор: Ferrars, Elizabeth Название: No Peace for the Wicked ISBN: 147190718X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781471907180 Издательство: Orion Рейтинг: Цена: 2883.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: One of the best-loved and most prolific crime writers of her generation.
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