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Edmond Rostand was born in Marseilles in 1868 and died in 1918. His thirty-year literary career is marked primarily by one astronomical success and a number of plays of lesser note. Early on, Edmond displayed an interest in marionette theater and poetry. While attending the College Stanislas in Paris, Rostand studied French literature, history, and philosophy. He followed his own inclination and deviated from the course his father had designed for him as a lawyer, although he did finally earn a legal degree and gain admission to the bar. His first poetry appeared in the small academy review Mireille. In 1888, his LeGantRouge was produced and, in 1890, Rostand published his first book of poetry, LesMusardises. His play LesRomanesques was produced in 1894, followed a year later by LaPrincessLointaine. The playwright's name and influence spread. Rostand's fame peaked in 1898 with the first production of CyranodeBergerac, a five-act verse drama. The play was important to the drama of its time for its romantic nature, a departure from the realistic conventions then in vogue. It was an enormous success. After his next success, L'Aiglon (1900), ten years followed before Rostand completed another play. He spent the remaining years of his life in semiretirement, and died in 1918.?
Dimitrov writes with great authority and acumen. His book clearly shows the underlying continuities in Bulgarian history. Many of these have received little or no attention in previous western scholarship. ... He argues forcibly that it was not until the fall of communism that Bulgaria was forced to move towards a society and economy based on individual, self-reliant enterprise. Dimitrov provides a cool, dispassionate and at times critical survey of Bulgarian foreign policy but he is at his best when analyzing the process by which the post-communist system came into being and how that process of evolution has affected developments down to the first year of the twenty-first century. <br>-Professor Richard Crampton of St Edmund Hall, Oxford <br>
