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Part of the "Macmillan Interviews and Recollections" series, this
book reviews Doyle's life and career through a compilation of
memoirs by contemporaries, interviews, and selections from his
autobiography "Memoirs and Adventures".
Like other volumes in the series, this chronology presents major
events of the subject's life in a readily accessible format to
provide scholar and general reader with quick guides to dates,
people and places. This volume focuses on the main facts of the
life and career of Rudyard Kipling.
Sir William Schwenk Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan created
fourteen comic operas - witty satires set to sparkling music - that
instantly won a large and enthusiastic audience and remain
immensely popular today. Their talents brought the two men together
and their temperaments finally drove them apart. Here, in forty
interviews and recollections, is a record of what was said about
them during and shortly after their lifetimes by friends,
musicians, theatrical managers, singers, actors, and actresses,
journalists and authors. For Gilbert and Sullivan devotees
everywhere, this entertaining collection will provide fresh
insights into the careers and collaborative achievements of one of
the most successful - and enduring - enterprises of Victorian
theatre.
The Brontes, living in an isolated village in Yorkshire, wrote some
of the most vivid, imaginative, and widely-read novels of the
Victorian Age; they also became the subject-matter of romanticized
anecdotes and regrettably distorted biographies. The best testimony
about what kinds of men and women they really were comes from
statements they made themselves; but because their autobiographical
commentaries are sparse, the record is usefully supplemented in
this anthology by first-hand statements made not only by various
inhabitants of Haworth, but by those who met members of the Bronte
family in Yorkshire, London, and elsewhere.
Sir William Schwenk Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan created
fourteen comic operas - witty satires set to sparkling music - that
instantly won a large and enthusiastic audience and remain
immensely popular today. Their talents brought the two men together
and their temperaments finally drove them apart. Here, in forty
interviews and recollections, is a record of what was said about
them during and shortly after their lifetimes by friends,
musicians, theatrical managers, singers, actors, and actresses,
journalists and authors. For Gilbert and Sullivan devotees
everywhere, this entertaining collection will provide fresh
insights into the careers and collaborative achievements of one of
the most successful - and enduring - enterprises of Victorian
theatre.
This book is a study of the development of the Victorian short
story, which by the 1890s and the appearance of the Sherlock Holmes
stories, had become the most popular literary product of the late
nineteenth century. The book examines the work of nine
distinguished writers: William Carleton and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
serve to illustrate the change from a largely oral tradition to a
more sophisticated understanding of the nature of the reading
public. Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope exemplify significant
changes in the relationship between an author and his audience.
Thomas Hardy insisted on older, more traditional modes of
narrative, but his storytelling sense had been sharpened by
experiences with many editors of periodicals who believed they were
serving the 'modern' public. The other writers treated at length
are Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad and H.
G. Wells.
This book is a study of the development of the Victorian short
story, which by the 1890s and the appearance of the Sherlock Holmes
stories, had become the most popular literary product of the late
nineteenth century. The book examines the work of nine
distinguished writers: William Carleton and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
serve to illustrate the change from a largely oral tradition to a
more sophisticated understanding of the nature of the reading
public. Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope exemplify significant
changes in the relationship between an author and his audience.
Thomas Hardy insisted on older, more traditional modes of
narrative, but his storytelling sense had been sharpened by
experiences with many editors of periodicals who believed they were
serving the 'modern' public. The other writers treated at length
are Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad and H.
G. Wells.
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