Hesketh Pearson (1887–1964)
Autore di La vita di Oscar Wilde
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Cut down scan of back cover of Penguin No.627.
Opere di Hesketh Pearson
Modern men and mummers 3 copie
The swan of Lichfield : being a selection from the correspondence of Anna Seward — A cura di — 2 copie
About Kingsmill 1 copia
This blessed plot 1 copia
A Life of Shakespeare, Vol. I 1 copia
A Life of Shakespeare, Vol. II 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Importance of Being Earnest / Lady Windermere's Fan / A Woman of No Importance / An Ideal Husband / Salomé (1954) — A cura di, alcune edizioni — 2,585 copie
Plays, Prose Writings and Poems (Everyman's Library) (1955) — A cura di, alcune edizioni — 380 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Pearson, Hesketh
- Nome legale
- Pearson, Edward Hesketh Gibbons
- Data di nascita
- 1887-02-20
- Data di morte
- 1964-04-09
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Hawford, Claines, Worcestershire, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- London, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Hawford, Claines, Worcestershire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, UK - Istruzione
- Bedford Grammar School, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, UK
Orkney House School - Attività lavorative
- actor
theatre director
biographer
author - Relazioni
- Kingsmill, Hugh (friend)
- Organizzazioni
- British Army (WWI)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Military Cross
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 39
- Opere correlate
- 8
- Utenti
- 896
- Popolarità
- #28,593
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 17
- ISBN
- 87
- Lingue
- 2
- Preferito da
- 1
My problem, and hence the three stars, is that it's truly a mystery whether Pearson even liked Conan Doyle. This is not an unbiased look at a literary titan's life - it's totally biased. But which way? Throughout the text, Pearson is extolling Doyle's genius, praising his ability to write gripping tales, and at the same time calling him simple whenever he can. He uses the word 'simple', and I could give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he means 'free from guile' - which Doyle was - but he takes snipes at him in other ways too that makes me wonder.
Pearson continued to irritate me the further along in the text I went; he went off on a long diatribe about the difference between having an imagination and being fanciful. Apparently, Shakespeare had imagination, but Doyle was merely fanciful, as, apparently, was Edgar Allan Poe. He also kept referring to "the war of 1914-1918", or "the 1914-1918 war", refusing to call it World War I, or even the Great War. This bugged me more than it should have.
But the part that pissed me off the most was the last chapter where he tackles the elephant in the room - Doyle's embracement of spiritualism. It is, to put it mildly, extremely unsympathetic, unbiased and, frankly screw mildly, the man was sneering and contemptuous and couldn't have written it more condescendingly if he tried. He made me want to thump him right between the eyes for his extraordinary poor form. I could rant about this for ages, but I'll save time and just say, the last chapter cost him a star and a half.
It's an easy and informative read, but unless you can tolerate an author who talks out of both sides of their mouth in a completely biased fashion, there are probably better biographies of Conan Doyle out there.… (altro)