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Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: First published in 1909, «The Man Shakespeare and his Tragic Life» is a lively biography of England and arguably the world’s greatest playwright and poet by an ardent admirer. Pursuing the thesis that a man so elusive in the few surviving documents is found full blown in very one of his works, Frank Harris, a successful journalist and editor, turns his hand to creating an impressionistic portrait…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: This work starts with an introduction by J.H. Stape, St Mary's University College, Strawberry Hill. Written in 1930, Bernard Shaw: An Unauthorised Biography (1930) appeared shortly after Frank Harris' death. Shaw read the revised proofs, also making a few corrections and adding a short postscript. With the help of an American journalist and an anarchist of European reputation, Harris managed to…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Written in 1910 and first privately published in New York in 1916, Frank Harris' «Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions» gained almost instant notoriety. Attacked by critics for its extravagant inventions, vigorously defended by George Bernard Shaw and hauled into court for libel by Wilde's friend and lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, Harris' biography was published in England only in 1938. Famously…