Author : H. G. Hibbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331897170
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (971 download)
Book Synopsis Fifty Years of a Londoner's Life (Classic Reprint) by : H. G. Hibbert
Download or read book Fifty Years of a Londoner's Life (Classic Reprint) written by H. G. Hibbert and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fifty Years of a Londoner's Life If this book and its author make the same appeal to the public as they do to me, then this certainly will be one of the books of the year. As to the author, I have known him for nearly a quarter of a century; he was once my colleague, and a more energetic, competent, trained journalist I have never met, nor a more loyal and steadfast friend. His book is an epitome of the side of journalistic work to which he has devoted most of his professional life - though not all, for Mr Hibbert belongs to the same old-fashioned school of journalists as myself, who had to go through the severe mill, and to turn their hands to everything that turned up, from an execution to a grand opera. But the subject that has attracted his attention more than any other is the stage. For many years he spent some hours of every night of the year in some form or other of a theatre or a music hall; I believe he is one of the men who would prefer, if stranded in a small town, going to a penny gaff rather than remain amid the futile gossip of a smoke-room. This passion for the play is due to an inexhaustible interest in the many forms of art which the stage presents, and to an equally inexhaustible interest in the multiform and often thrilling drama that goes on within a play - namely, the men and women behind the scenes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
