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ISBN: 1776672313 Year: 2016 Publisher: [Auckland, New Zealand] : The Floating Press,
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ISBN: 1776672232 9700000051209 Year: 2016 Publisher: [Auckland, New Zealand] : The Floating Press,
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ISBN: 1787378241 9700000040349 Year: 2018 Publisher: London : Copyright Group,
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Richard Bernard Heldmann was born on 12th October 1857, in St Johns Wood, North London. By his early 20's Heldmann began publishing fiction for the myriad magazine publications that had sprung up and were eager for good well-written content. In October 1882, Heldmann was promoted to co-editor of Union Jack, a popular magazine, but his association with the publication ended suddenly in June 1883. It appears Heldman was prone to issuing forged cheques to finance his lifestyle. In April 1884 He was sentenced to 18 months hard labour. In order to be well away from the scandal and damage this had caused to his reputation Heldmann adopted a pseudonym on his release from jail. Shortly thereafter the name 'Richard Marsh' began to appear in the literary periodicals. The use of his mother's maiden name as part of it seems both a release and a lifeline.A stroke of very good fortune arrived with his novel The Beetle published in 1897. This would turn out to be his greatest commercial success and added some much-needed gravitas to his literary reputation. Marsh was a prolific writer and wrote almost 80 volumes of fiction as well as many short stories, across many genres from horror and crime to romance and humour.
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ISBN: 1776672119 9781776672110 Year: 2016 Publisher: Auckland The Floating Press
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ISBN: 0749397160 9780749397166 Year: 1993 Publisher: London Minerva
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ISBN: 0099488876 9780099488873 Year: 2006 Publisher: London : Vintage,
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"The funniest man i ever saw, and the saddest man i ever knew". This is how W. C. Fields described Bert Williams, the highest-paid entertainer in America in his heyday and someone who counted the King of England and Buster Keaton among his fans. Born in the Bahamas, he moved to California with his family. Too poor to attend Stanford University, he took to life on the stage with his friend George Walker. Together they played lumber camps and mining towns until they eventually made the agonising decision to "play the coon". Offstage, Williams was a tall, light-skinned man with marked poise and dignity ; on-stage he now became a shuffling, inept "nigger" who wore blackface make-up. As the new century dawned they were headlining on Broadway. But the mask was beginning to overwhelm Williams and he sank into bouts of melancholia and heavy drinking, unable to escape the blackface his public demanded.
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Year: 1887 Publisher: Leipzig : Bernard Tauchnitz,
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Year: 1900 Publisher: London : Hutchinson & Co.,
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Year: 1872 Publisher: Leipzig : Bernhard Tauchnitz,
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Year: 1878 Publisher: Leipzig : Bernhard Tauchnitz,
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