SymphonyMacmillan, 10/12/2007 - 374 páginas In 1827 Harriet Smithson, a beautiful and talented young Irish actress, makes an unusual decision. Determined to avoid the traditional route to stardom via the manager’s bed, she joins an English company in the bold experiment of taking Shakespeare to Paris. With the ferment of revolution in the air, the new generation is longing for a novel kind of passionate, spontaneous art. And to Harriet’s astonishment, it is embodied in her---La Belle Irlandaise. In the midst of this frenzy she finds herself pursued by a strange, intense young composer named Hector Berlioz. So begins a painful and profound love affair. She is his muse, his idée fixe, his obsession; and Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, directly inspired by Harriet, will change music forever. Symphony is an audacious, brilliant, and haunting novel, set against a background of nineteenth-century theatre, Romantic art, music, and revolutionary Europe. But at its heart lies the story of two lives transfigured and destroyed by genius, inspiration, and madness. |
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Secção 2_ | 9 |
Secção 3_ | 42 |
Secção 4_ | 59 |
Secção 5_ | 91 |
Secção 6_ | 92 |
Secção 7_ | 127 |
Secção 8_ | 149 |
Secção 13_ | 236 |
Secção 14_ | 263 |
Secção 15_ | 271 |
Secção 16_ | 299 |
Secção 17_ | 323 |
Secção 18_ | 333 |
Secção 19_ | 357 |
Secção 20_ | 362 |
Secção 9_ | 164 |
Secção 10_ | 178 |
Secção 11_ | 185 |
Secção 12_ | 203 |
Secção 21_ | 373 |
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