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“hesketh pearson”

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  • A Life of Shakespeare

    by Hesketh Pearson ...
    'You are a genuine soaker in Shakespeare, and have not read him as a task. You have him by heart.'—Bernard Shaw wrote in a letter to Hesketh Pearson.Before he became a well-known biographer, Hesketh Pearson was an actor. Few facts are known about Shakespeare, but with an actor's eye and a supreme self-confidence Pearson has drawn a recognisable portrait of Shakespeare the man—even telling us the ... Read more

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  • Bernard Shaw: His Life And Personality

    by Hesketh Pearson ...
    First published in 1942, Hesketh Pearson’s much lauded biography has been hailed as the standard work on George Bernard Shaw. Pearson was fortunate to have written it with the close cooperation of Shaw. Not only did Shaw check and correct all the facts, contribute and authenticate or reject anecdotes but he supplied what he referred to as ‘unique private history’ unavailable to others. The ... Read more

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  • Henry of Navarre

    His Life

    by Hesketh Pearson ...
    Quite the most picturesque personality in the long line of French monarchy, Henry IV combined physical bravery with mental enlightenment to a degree unmatched among rulers of mankind. He envisaged and worked for the union of the Christian religions and the brotherhood of the European nations, for the concord of sects and the amity of states.Three and a half centuries ago his ideals were considered ... Read more

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  • Gilbert And Sullivan: A Biography

    by Hesketh Pearson ...
    The operas of William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan are an institution. Hesketh Pearson’s biography is of the two men who together formed a famous partnership and he is interested in them as individual, quite different personalities – one of the explanations behind their equally famous quarrel. Pearson describes their lives rather than criticise their works. As the operas such as ‘The Mikado’ and ... Read more

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  • Walter Scott - His Life And Personality

    by Hesketh Pearson ...
    This is a portrait of a man whose life was more extraordinary than his novels. As a child he suffered from infantile paralysis, as a young man he experienced a tragic love affair, in middle age he endured prolonged illness and in old age financial ruin. Yet despite his difficult life Walter Scott became the first bestselling novelist, poet and historian. Hesketh Pearson’s study is of a unique man ... Read more

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  • Conan Doyle: His Life And Art

    by Hesketh Pearson ...
    A sympathetic and illuminating portrait of the creator of one of the most famous characters in English literature. Hesketh Pearson was interested in the many contradictions in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – the conventional Scottish doctor who pursued the occult, was interested in spiritualism and fairies, invented the immensely popular Sherlock Holmes yet came in time to detest his creation. Pearson’s ... Read more

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  • Arthur Conan Doyle: His Life and Art

    by Hesketh Pearson ...
    Conan Doyle (1859-1930) will always be remembered for the character of Sherlock Holmes, but he was a prolific writer—of short stories, of science fiction and historical fiction1including The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard. In his comprehensive biography, Pearson considers how his life is reflected in his books—including his background as a doctor and his enduring (and public) belief in spiritualism. ... Read more

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  • The Hero of Delhi

    A Life of John Nicholson, Saviour of India, and a History of His Wars

    by Hesketh Pearson ...
    An Irishman, like so many other great British generals, John Nicholson received a cadetship in the Bengal Infantry at the age of sixteen. Apart from one short visit to England, the rest of his life was spent in India. The Afghan and Sikh wars of the eighteen-forties brought out the titanic powers of a character that "flowered in action," and before he was thirty, "Nikal Seyn" was a legend ... Read more

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  • The Marrying Americans

    by Hesketh Pearson ...
    A witty and fascinating account of nineteenth-century Anglo-American marriages—from the daughter of a Baltimore merchant who married Napoleon's brother to the Baltimore lady who married Edward VIII…In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience…however, the American girl is always welcome. She brightens our dull dinner ... Read more

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  • The Man Whistler

    by Hesketh Pearson ...
    THIS AUTHOR'S favourite subjects for biography have been wits, and he has already written on Sydney Smith, William Gilbert, Henry Labouchère, Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Benjamin Disraeli. His seventh and last choice of famous wit is James McNeill Whistler, whose personality aroused more controversy in the art world of the nineteenth century than that of anyone else.WHISTLER is chiefly ... Read more

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  • The Man Whistler

    by Hesketh Pearson ...
    The American painter, James McNeil Whistler, is the subject of Hesketh Pearson’s biography. Whistler’s personality aroused more controversy in the nineteenth-century art world than that of anyone else. He is best known for his twilight scenes or ‘nocturnes’ such as the Thames at Battersea and for the famous portrait of his mother. His work was also to significantly influence interior decoration. ... Read more

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  • Dizzy

    The Life & Personality of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

    by Hesketh Pearson ...
    Deservedly one of the outstanding biographers of our time, Hesketh Pearson turns in this book to perhaps the most fascinating, perplexing and dramatic figure of the Victorian age—a man who was equally famous as statesman, author and wit.Disraeli began political life with everything against him—his race, his disturbing wit, his love of pageantry and deliberately extravagant appearance, his ... Read more

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