Diary of a Lost Girl by Margarete Bohme (Louise Brooks edition)

"Gladysz provides an authoritative series of essays that tell us about the author, the notoriety of her work (which was first published in 1905), and its translation to the screen. Production stills, advertisements, and other ephemera illustrate these introductory chapters. In today’s parlance this would be called a 'movie tie-in edition,' but that seems a rather glib way to describe yet another privately published work that reveals an enormous amount of research — and passion." -- Leonard Maltin

"Read today, it's a fascinating time-trip back to another age, and yet remains compelling. As a bonus, Gladysz richly illustrates the text with stills of Brooks from the famous film." -- Jack Garner, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

"Thomas Gladysz is the leading authority on all matters pertaining to the legendary Louise Brooks. We owe him a debt of gratitude for bringing the groundbreaking novel, The Diary of a Lost Girl - the basis of Miss Brooks's classic 1929 film - back from obscurity. It remains a fascinating work." -- Lon Davis, author of Silent Lives

"Long relegated to the shadows, Margarete Böhme's 1905 novel, The Diary of a Lost Girl has at last made a triumphant return. In reissuing the rare 1907 English translation of Böhme's German text, Thomas Gladysz makes an important contribution to film history, literature, and, in as much as Böhme told her tale with much detail and background contemporary to the day, sociology and history. He gives us the original novel, his informative introduction, and many beautiful and rare illustrations. This reissue is long overdue, and in all ways it is a volume of uncommon merit." -- Richard Buller, author of A Beautiful Fairy Tale: The Life of Actress Lois Moran

"Most certainly a book for all you Louise Brooks fans out there!! And silent cinema fans in general as well." -- Bristol Silents (UK) newsletter

About the author: Margarete Böhme (1867-1937) was, arguably, one of the more widely read German writers of the early 20th century. She authored 40 novels – as well as short stories, autobiographical sketches, and articles. In her time, her work was compared to that of Zola. The Diary of a Lost Girl, first published in German as Tagebuch einer Verlorenen, is her best known book.

About the editor: Thomas Gladysz is an arts journalist and the Director of the Louise Brooks Society, which he founded in 1995. It is an online archive and internet-based fan club devoted to the silent film star. Today, Gladysz owns a shelf-full of different editions of The Diary of a Lost Girl.

About Louise Brooks: This American-born actress achieved film immortality with the role of Lulu in the 1929 German silent film, Pandora's Box. Her second collaboration with director G.W. Pabst, Diary of a Lost Girl, was released the same year. Today, Brooks is among the most popular silent film stars.