Richard Burton

Author : Sam Kashner,Nancy Schoenberger
Publisher : JR Books
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781907532566

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Furious Love by Sam Kashner,Nancy Schoenberger Pdf

A tough Welshman, he was softened by the affections of a breathtakingly beautiful woman: she was a modern-day Cleopatra madly in love with her own Mark Antony. For quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were the king and queen of Hollywood. Yet their two marriages to each other represented much more than outlandish romance. Together, Elizabeth and Richard were a fascinating embodiment of the mores and transgressions of their time and even luminaries like Jacqueline Kennedy looked to them as a barometer of the culture. The enduring glamour, grandeur, drama and bravado embodied in the couple gave rise to the type of rabid gossip and wide-eyed adoration that are the staples of todayÕ s media. Using brand-new research and interviews Ð including unique access to Taylor herself, the Burton family, and TaylorÕ s extensive personal correspondence Ð this ultimate celebrity biography is the gripping real-life story of a fairy-tale couple whose lives were even grander and more outrageous than the epic films they made.

Author : Richard Burton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300192315

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The Richard Burton Diaries by Richard Burton Pdf

The irresistible, candid diaries of Richard Burton, published in their entirety “Just great fun, and written out of an engaging, often comical bewilderment: How did a poor Welshman become not only a star, but a player on the world stage that was Elizabeth Taylor’s fame?”—Hilton Als, NewYorker.com “Of real interest is that Burton was almost as good a writer as an actor, read as many as three books a day, haunted bookstores in every city he set foot in, bought countless books on every conceivable subject and evaluated them rather shrewdly. . . . Apt writing abounds.”—John Simon, New York Times Book Review Irresistibly magnetic on stage, mesmerizing in movies, seven times an Academy Award nominee, Richard Burton rose from humble beginnings in Wales to become Hollywood's most highly paid actor and one of England's most admired Shakespearean performers. His epic romance with Elizabeth Taylor, his legendary drinking and story-telling, his dazzling purchases (enormous diamonds, a jet, homes on several continents), and his enormous talent kept him constantly in the public eye. Yet the man behind the celebrity façade carried a surprising burden of insecurity and struggled with the peculiar challenges of a life lived largely in the spotlight. This volume publishes Burton's extensive personal diaries in their entirety for the first time. His writings encompass many years—from 1939, when he was still a teenager, to 1983, the year before his death—and they reveal him in his most private moments, pondering his triumphs and demons, his loves and his heartbreaks. The diary entries appear in their original sequence, with annotations to clarify people, places, books, and events Burton mentions. From these hand-written pages emerges a multi-dimensional man, no mere flashy celebrity. While Burton touched shoulders with shining lights—among them Olivia de Havilland, John Gielgud, Claire Bloom, Laurence Olivier, John Huston, Dylan Thomas, and Edward Albee—he also played the real-life roles of supportive family man, father, husband, and highly intelligent observer. His diaries offer a rare and fresh perspective on his own life and career, and on the glamorous decades of the mid-twentieth century.

Author : Edward Rice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Explorers
ISBN : OCLC:1391279581

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Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton by Edward Rice Pdf

Author : David Jenkins
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015029537480

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Richard Burton by David Jenkins Pdf

Author : Dane Kennedy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674039483

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The Highly Civilized Man by Dane Kennedy Pdf

Though best remembered as an adventurer who entered Mecca in disguise and sought the source of the White Nile, Richard Burton contributed so forcefully to his generation that he provides us with a singularly panoramic perspective on the world of the Victorians. Engagingly written and vigorously argued, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of a remarkable man and a crucial era.

Author : Michael Munn
Publisher : Aurum Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781781313732

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Richard Burton by Michael Munn Pdf

‘After reading this affectionately candid biography, it is hard not to echo Olivier’s response on hearing of Burton’s death: “He was so young, so young”’ Daily Mail A man of contradictions, Richard Burton’s life and remarkable career are revealed by a writer who knew him from 1968 up to Burton’s last film. Recounting Burton’s deepest and often darkest thoughts and secrets, as well as hell-raising stories quashed by the Hollywood system, such as affairs with Monroe and Lana Turner, being caught in a brothel with Errol Flynn and a fist fight with Frank Sinatra, Munn offers a stunning portrait of a great man. From nursing Burton through an epileptic seizure to witnessing Burton’s part in East End gang violence, this is an intimate and deeply moving biography. Writer, actor, director and former journalist and Hollywood publicist, Michael Munn, has written twenty-one books, including the best selling John Wayne: The Man Behind the Myth and the acclaimed Jimmy Stewart: The Truth Behind the Legend

Author : James L. Newman
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597975964

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Paths Without Glory by James L. Newman Pdf

Few people have garnered so much enduring interest as Sir Richard Burton. A true polymath, Burton is best known today for his translations of the "Kama Sutra" and "Arabian Nights." Yet, Africa stood at the center of his adult life. The Burton-Speke expedition (1856 59) that put Lake Tanganyika on the map led to years of controversy over the source of the White Nile. From 1861 to 1864 Burton served as British consul in Fernando Po and traveled widely between Ghana and Angola. He wrote prodigiously and contributed some of the first detailed ethnographic accounts of Africa s peoples. In many ways, however, Africa proved to be Burton s undoing. Injuries and sickness sapped his strength, he made enemies in high places, and, ironically, even the discovery of Lake Tanganyika worked to his disadvantage. Increasingly frustrated and bitter, he turned to alcohol as a frequent remedy.In this fascinating story of the relationship between a man and a continent, geographer James L. Newman provides an intimate portrait of Burton through careful examination of his journals and biographers rich analyses. Delving deepest into Burton s later life and travels, Newman pinpoints the thematic mainstays of his career as a diplomat and explorer, namely his strong advocacy of aggressive imperial policies and his belief that race explained crucial human differences. Historians and scholars of the golden age of empire, as well as armchair adventurers, will not only discover what defined this famously enigmatic figure, but venture, themselves, into the heart of mid-nineteenth-century Africa. "

Author : Melvyn Bragg
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781444758467

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Rich: The Life of Richard Burton by Melvyn Bragg Pdf

Richard Burton: star. The roaring boy from the Welsh coal valleys who came to sport on the banks of the old Nile, playing great Antony to Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra. From the West End to Hollywood, from Camelot to Shakespeare, he drank, dazzled and despaired, playing out his life on the public stage. But there was another, quieter, off-stage Richard Burton, a face hidden from the multitude. Melvyn Bragg, allowed free access to the never-before-revealed Burton private notebooks, and with the cooperation of friends who have never spoken about him before, has brought together the private and public sides for the first time. Rich is the complete Richard Burton: a revelation.

Author : Richard Burton
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781611457063

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Godsent by Richard Burton Pdf

Virgin Kate Skylar gives birth to Ethan, who she believes is the Son of God, but the Catholic Church is convinced her child is the Antichrist and will stop at nothing kill him, going so far as to use an artificial intelligence to locate him.

Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Harar, Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004662016

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First Footsteps in East Africa, Or, An Exploration of Harar by Sir Richard Francis Burton Pdf

Author : Richard Burton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300180107

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The Richard Burton Diaries by Richard Burton Pdf

The personal diaries of the renowned actor and glamorous celebrity describe his life from 1939 to 1983, including his struggles with weight, drinking and jealousy when other men looked at the love of his life, Elizabeth Taylor.

Author : Thomas Wright
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465550132

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The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Thomas Wright Pdf

Author : Alfred Bate Richards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU17221579

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A Short Sketch of the Career of Capt. Richard F. Burton by Alfred Bate Richards Pdf

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410340245

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A Study Guide for Sir Richard Burton's "The Arabian Nights" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

Author : Fergus Cashin
Publisher : W H Allen
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Actors
ISBN : UCAL:B3543490

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Richard Burton by Fergus Cashin Pdf