num_pages: 358
description: My Double Life is the autobiography of the French actress Sarah Bernhardt, who was internationally famed during her lifetime and afterwards as one of the classical theater's all-time greatest stars. Bernhardt's memoirs are composed with a novelist's (or actress's) sense of artistry and suspense that leaves no doubt of the charisma for which she was famed in her "double life, " both on- and offstage. Yet at the same time as this book very consciously contributes to the crafting of her image, it also illuminates a whole era: not only the world of theater, but also the worlds of women, politics, society, Europe and America, and, indeed, of history making itself.
language: English
title: My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt
titlecomplete: My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt (Suny Series, Women Writers in Translation)
characters: Sarah Bernhardt
genres: Biography, France, Memoir, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, 20th Century, History
ratings_count: 152
publisher: State University of New York Press