Melba: An Unconventional Biography book by Percy Colson
Language: English
Published by Grayson & Grayson, 1932
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: West Cove UK, Wellington, United KingdomWest Cove UK
AbeBooks seller since December 16, 2019
Condition: Used - Good
US$ 120.78
Quantity: 1 available
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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Year 1932. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> The life of a famous singer offers perhaps, less scope to the biographer for the accomplishment of his fell purpose than that of any other brand of celebrity; especially in the case of one who has but recently died. If he tells "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth," he is apt to give offence. If he suppresses any of it, he will be roughly handled by those of the singer's friends who require truth, not only in the "inward parts," but shouted upon the housetops. And the critics will chide him for his sins of omission. If, on the other hand, he confines himself to a tedious record of artistic triumphs, news-paper criticisms, and letters, and to presenting a wholly flattering portrait of his subject, no one will read his book. It is infinitely easier to write about people who have been dead for a hundred years or so. There are none still living who care a tinker's curse what you say about them, and the very period in which they lived lends them a certain interest. Then, too.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Melba: An Unconventional Biography book by Percy Colson
- Author
- Percy Colson
- Publisher
- Grayson & Grayson
- Publication year
- 1932
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Seller catalogs
- Antiquarian Rare & Collectable
West Cove UK
Wellington, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since December 16, 2019
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