Hide-and-seek with Angels: A Life of J.M. BarrieHutchinson, 2005 - 402 Seiten When James Matthew Barrie died, in 1937, his funeral was an occasion for national mourning. Crowds gathered; reporters and newsreel men came to record the day, and many well-known figures followed the coffin to its resting place in the little churchyard up on the hill. In London, a month later at St Pauls Cathedral a memorial service was held for the Scottish weavers son who died Britains playwright extraordinaire.A succession of novels and long-running plays had brought Barrie enormous wealth, critical acclaim, an hereditary Baronetcy and the Order of Merit. His public following extended to Hollywood where his work was performed by the stars of the silver screen. Unhappily such achievements did little to ameliorate the strains in Barries private life. Hampered by a stigmatising divorce, he was also struck by a series of tragic bereavements from which he never fully recovered. At the same time as savouring his public image, Barrie gave no more than a handful of interviews. |
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... Tommy , and later its continuation , Tommy and Grizel . Indeed , Lawrence identified strongly with Barrie's anti - hero , Tommy , who finds the difference between reality and fiction so difficult to locate . Lawrence told his lover ...
... Tommy , and later its continuation , Tommy and Grizel . Indeed , Lawrence identified strongly with Barrie's anti - hero , Tommy , who finds the difference between reality and fiction so difficult to locate . Lawrence told his lover ...
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... Tommy , the outrageous hero's exuberance is more muted in Tommy and Grizel . With a plot founded upon the fraught and finally disastrous relationship of the ill - fated young couple , the central problem is still Tommy's capacity for ...
... Tommy , the outrageous hero's exuberance is more muted in Tommy and Grizel . With a plot founded upon the fraught and finally disastrous relationship of the ill - fated young couple , the central problem is still Tommy's capacity for ...
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... Tommy choke to death in an accident arising out of his unfaithfulness to Grizel . Caught on some railings in an overcoat given him by her , Barrie has Tommy die because ultimately he has failed to relinquish his life of fantasy . And ...
... Tommy choke to death in an accident arising out of his unfaithfulness to Grizel . Caught on some railings in an overcoat given him by her , Barrie has Tommy die because ultimately he has failed to relinquish his life of fantasy . And ...
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The Happiest Years of His Life | 22 |
Literature was my game | 37 |
To be forever known | 51 |
Urheberrecht | |
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