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Hesketh Pearson

    20 febbraio 1887 – 9 aprile 1964

    Hesketh Pearson si affermò come un celebre biografo, noto per il suo approccio spiritoso e non ortodosso al genere. Le sue opere approfondiscono le vite e i successi di figure di spicco, offrendo una prospettiva unica e acuta. Pearson svela con abilità le complessità della natura umana e le motivazioni che spingono i suoi soggetti. Il suo stile coinvolgente e le sue acute osservazioni gli hanno fatto guadagnare un vasto pubblico, consolidando la sua reputazione di maestro della narrazione biografica.

    Hesketh Pearson
    Modern men and mummers
    The Last Actor-Managers
    A Life of Shakespeare. With an Anthology of Shakespeare's Poetry
    Gilbert And Sullivan
    The Life of Oscar Wilde
    De profundis
    • Modern men and mummers

      • 220pagine
      • 8 ore di lettura

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      Modern men and mummers
    • Queen Victoria "was" amused! It may seem unlikely but the preface to this famous biography is given over to quotes from his contemporaries. Not all the quotes are favourable but the roll-call is dazzling: Byron, Macaulay, Walter Scott, George III and IV, Disraeli, Sheridan, Dickens etc. Queen Victoria herself is not actually quoted but 'from various sources' Hesketh Pearson records, ' Queen Victoria used to go into fits of laughter at the sayings of Sydney Smith, which were repeated to her by Lord Melbourne.' From the same section we also learn, somewhat surprisingly, that Abraham Lincoln was an admirer, too, and that when Sarah Siddons, 'who never jeopardized her deportment in society as a tragedy queen by lapsing into laughter' first met Sydney Smith she 'developed convulsions, and had to be helped from the table.' Richard Ingrams has written, 'that of all his (Hesketh Pearson's) subjects Sydney Smith came closest to his own in character, and for that reason the book is probably his masterpiece.' There is no reason to dissent from that, especially when one remembers writers of the calibre of Graham Greene, Max Beerbohm and P. G. Wodehouse were such enthusiasts for it. And the title? Wishing to pay him the ultimate compliment, it was Macaulay who dubbed Sydney Smith, 'The Smith of Smiths'.

      The Smith of Smiths
    • Dějinná role i osobní vlastnosti proslulého anglického restauračního krále Karla II. se staly inspirací pro řadu historiků, spisovatelů i životopisců. Jedním z posledně jmenovaných je i Hesketh Pearson, uznávaný autor biografií řady významných postav z anglických dějin. Na stránkách této knihy sleduje Pearson už od mládí životní cestu tohoto stuartovského prince, dny, kdy zažil popravu svého otce, jíž vyvrcholila občanská válka v zemi, přes útěk z Anglie, léta vyhnanství v Evropě i vlastní éru jeho vlády, když byl po pádu republiky povolán na trůn. Autor vidí Karla II. jako panovníka, který se po drsných zkušenostech z mládí naučil trpělivosti, umění tolerance a kompromisu, vladaře schopného s nadhledem čelit pletichám nepřátel a citlivě ustupovat tlaku nových hospodářských sil. Zároveň ho však ukazuje jako člověka, který se uměl plně radovat ze života, měl řadu milostných avantýr (i nemanželských dětí) a který si z francouzského exilu přinesl zálibu v literatuře a divadle. Hesketh Pearson ve svém životopise čerpá z dobových materiálů, deníků a dopisů. Citlivě vkomponované citáty přispívají k autentičnosti a vtipnosti textu, který detailně zachycuje nejen životní osudy Karla II., ale i dobové mravy a události.

      Karel II.