Sarah Bernhardt Artist And Woman With Sixty Illustrations Etc

Author : A. Gallus
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330327586
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Sarah Bernhardt, Her Artistic Life written by A. Gallus and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sarah Bernhardt, Her Artistic Life You ask me, Monsieur, for a short preface to a book which you are publishing. It will not be very easy to content you. If you have spoken kindly of me, my compliance with your request may lead some people to suppose that you were prompted by a wish to please me when you wrote your book. And, on the other hand, if you have been ill-natured, your action may appear perfidious. You ask me to supply you with some information about myself and my childhood. Innumerable stories have been printed about both, and most are false. In my memoirs, which I mean to publish two years hence, I shall correct these untruths. But as your book is to be issued in America, you may express my feelings with regard to this amazing and most admirable nation. I am making my fourth tour in America. The extraordinary progress of this public has astounded me. When I came here first, some sixteen years ago, I made my debut as Adrienne. At the end of a few minutes I was disconcerted and alarmed by a strange noise. Five minutes later the same noise disturbed me. It sounded like the dull and muffled hissing of a multitude. I heard the sound a third time, and at last I understood what had been troubling me. The ladies in the house had all come armed with copies of the play, and as they turned the leaves they made the rustling sound which seemed so terrible. On the occasion of my second visit to this country, some ten years ago, about half the women in my audiences managed to dispense with books. When for the third time I appeared here, at most ten or fifteen of them had brought copies of the play with them; and this year not one woman - not a single one - had any need of books. This seems to me no less remarkable than admirable. 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.