Beggar's Opera - Couverture souple

Gay, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0812000323 ISBN 13 : 9780812000320

Editeur : Barron's Educational Series Inc.,U.S., 1962

Synopsis

Book by Gay John

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

That when I die this word may stand for me— He had a heart to praise, an eye to see, And beauty was his king. Dead at the age of thirty-one after a sudden operation, Claud Lovat Fraser was as surely a victim of the war as though he had fallen in action. He was full of vigour for his work, but shell-shock had left him with a heart that could not stand a strain of this kind, and all his own fine courage could not help the surgeons in a losing fight. We are not sorry for him—we learn that, not to be sorry for the dead. But for ourselves? This terror is always so fresh, so unexampled. I had telephoned to him to ask whether he would help me in a certain theatrical enterprise. I was told by his servant that he was ill, but one hears these things so often that one gave but little thought to it beyond sending a telegram asking for news; and now this. Personal griefs are of no public interest, but here is as sad a public loss as has befallen us, if the world can measure truly, in our generation.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Born in 1685, John Gay's first major success was THE SHEPHERD'S WEEK. It was followed by a number of other works, the most enduring of which is THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Gay died in 1732, and is remembered as a popular and genial man whose self-penned epitaph reads 'Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought it once, and now I know it'. Loughrey and Treadwell worked together at Roehampton Institute and have both published in scholarly journals.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Barron's Educational Series Inc.,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 1962
• ISBN 10: 0812000323
• ISBN 13: 9780812000320
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 162