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The memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt : early childhood through the first American tour ... / [translated from the French] ; edited and with an introduction by Sandy Lesberg.
LIBRA PN2638.B5 A35 1977 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923.
- Bernhardt, Sarah.
- Actors--France--Biography.
- Actors.
- France.
- Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-.
- Local Subjects:
- Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : Peebles Press ; London : Distributed by Barrie and Jenkins, 1977.
- Contents:
- Childhood
- How I became destined for the stage
- At the conservatoire
- At the Comédie Française
- In London
- In London (continued)
- How Sarah Bernhardt left the Comédie Française
- Her appreciation of other actors and actresses
- A voyage to America
- In America
- A visit to Edison
- An adventure with a whale
- A swindling grotto
- An exhibition of jewels
- A train robber
- Vaillant the anarchist
- A narrow escape
- Pittsburgh
- Niagara
- home again.
- Credits:
- English translation of In the clouds by Marina Fitzpatrick.
- Notes:
- Originally published: in French. Paris? : s.n. 19-?
- Includes the novella 'In the clouds' / translated by Mariana Fitzpatrick. Translation of: 'Dans les nuages'. Paris : Charpentier, 1878.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 have dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 has two (2) ms. notes attached to front flyleaf.
- Contains:
- Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923. Dans les nuages. English
- ISBN:
- 0672523558
- 9780672523557
- OCLC:
- 16433818
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