| My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt Contributor(s): Bernhardt, Sarah (Author), Larson, Victoria Tietze (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0791440532 ISBN-13: 9780791440537 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 98-30036 |
| Series: Suny Series, Women Writers in Translation |
| Physical Information: 1.02" H x 6.26" W x 9.28" (1.41 lbs) 345 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Chronological Period - 1920's - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Western Europe - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: My Double Life is the autobiography of the French actress Sarah Bernhardt, who was internationally famed during her lifetime and afterwards as one of the classical theater's all-time greatest stars. Bernhardt's memoirs are composed with a novelist's (or actress's) sense of artistry and suspense that leaves no doubt of the charisma for which she was famed in her "double life," both on- and off-stage. Yet at the same time as this book very consciously contributes to the crafting of her image, it also illuminates a whole era: not only the world of theater, but also the worlds of women, politics, society, Europe and America, and, indeed, of history making itself. |