″It would be frightful to live the rest of our lives in an alcoholic haze, seeing the world through fumes of spirits and smoke.
He ended up spending $1.1 million for the ring.īurton worried about Taylor’s drinking and his own. ″That insult last night is going to cost me.″ Burton wrote. And I’ll love her till I die.″īurton lamented that he had insulted Taylor one night by telling her that her hands were ″large and ugly and red and masculine.″ The next morning, Taylor replied that Burton would have to buy her a diamond ring of 69 carats to make her hands less ugly. ″She is a prospectus that can never be entirely catalogued, an almanac for Poor Richard. ″I have been inordinately lucky all my life, but the greatest luck of all has been Elizabeth,″ Burton wrote on Nov. The book, ″Richard Burton: A Life 1925-1984,″ by Melvyn Bragg and Sally Burton, whom Burton married in 1983, will be published by Little, Brown in February. In the journals, he analyzed his relationship with Taylor, detailed the fairy-tale life they lived, and fretted about the financial cost of diamonds and the physical cost of drinking.Įxcepts from a biography, which quotes from Burton’s journals, are published in November’s Life magazine. The late Welsh actor also wrote that he was ″as thrilled by the English language as I am by a lovely woman or dreams.″ In 2002 USAToday recognized us as \"1 of 10 Great Old Bookstores\", and we have been featured in numerous other newspaper and TV stories including Washington Post and CSpan.NEW YORK (AP) _ Richard Burton wrote in his diary that he’d love Elizabeth Taylor until he died, and recounted that he once bought her a $1.1 million ring after he told her her hands were ″large and ugly and red and masculine.″ Our retail stores have always been places where a reader can rush in looking for a title needed for a term paper that is due the next day, or where bibliophiles can get lost \"in the stacks\" for as long as they wish. A merging of the old and new is where we started, and it is where we are today. Richard Burton was the Welsh miners son who became a superstar of stage and screen. ALL kinds of books from 95 cent children\'s paperbacks to five figure rare and collectibles.
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