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Treatise on Elegant Living
Honoré de Balzac's 1830 Treatise on Elegant Living was a keystone text on dandyism, preceding Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's Anatomy of Dandyism (1845) and Charles Baudelaire's "The Dandy" (in The Painter of Modern Life, 1863), and marking an important shift from the early dandyism of the British Regency to the intellectual and artistic dandyism of nineteenth-century France. The Treatise is the first true philosophical expression of dandyism, and is full of well-crafted aphorisms: "Elegant living is, in the broad acceptance of the term, the art of animating repose," runs one classic definition of dandyism, and "One must have studied at least as far as rhetoric to lead an elegant life" asserts t...
The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother, and Me
Like The Bolter and Portrait of a Marriage, this beguiling, heady tale of a scandalous ménage à trois among England's upper classes combines memoir and biography to re-create an unforgettably decadent world. Among the glittering stars of British society, Sofka Zinovieff's grandparents lived and loved with abandon. Robert Heber-Percy was a dashing young man who would rather have a drink than open a book, so his involvement with Jennifer Fry, a gorgeous socialite famous for her style and charm, was not surprising. But by the time Robert met and married Jennifer, he had already been involved with a man—Gerald, Lord Berners—for more than a decade. Stout, eccentric and significantly older, ...
Original Story by
From director, playwright, and screen-writer Arthur Laurents -- author of Gypsy, West Side Story, Rope, and The Snake Pit, among many others -- a dazzling portrait of his world, and of the artists, directors, personalities, and actors who came of age after the Second World War.Laurents takes us through the trials and joys of watching his work staged or filmed (Home of the Brave, The Time of the Cuckoo, et al.), of working with stars (Shirley Booth, Kim Stanley, Robert Redford, Ethel Merman, Angela Lansbury, Melvyn Douglas, Katharine Hepburn...), of dealings and friendships with Hollywood greats (Irene Selznick, Charlie Chaplin, Anatole Litvak, Alfred Hitchcock, the Gene Kellys). He writes ab...
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