The Puppet Show of Memory (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Baring, Maurice

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1451000669 ISBN 13 : 9781451000665

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Puppet Show of Memory

We used to go in the summer to Coombe Cottage, near Malden, an ivy-covered, red-brick house, with a tower at one end, a cool oak hall and staircase, a drawing-room full Of water colours, a room next to it full of books, with a drawing-table and painting materials ready, and a long dining-room, of which the narrow end was a Sitting-room, and had a verandah looking out on to the garden. There was also a kitchen garden, lawns, a dairy, a gardener, Mr. Baker, who made nosegays, a deaf-and dumb under-gardener who spoke on his fingers, a farmyard, and a duck-pond into which I remember falling.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Messrs. Methuen for allowing me to use in Chapters XVI.-XIX. some matter which has already appeared in AY ear in Russia and Russian Essays, two books published by them; to Mr. Leo Maxe for allowing me to use an article on Sarah Bernhardt which appeared in the National Review and has been re-written for this book; to Father C. C. Martindale and Mr. Desmond Mc Carthy for kindly correcting the proofs. M. B.
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Biographie de l'auteur

Born in London in 1874, Maurice Baring was a man of letters, a scion of a family long prominent in the financial ventures of the British Empire. The son of the 1st Baron Revelstoke (a director of the Bank of England and a senior partner at Baring Bros.) he was educated at Eton and at Cambridge, and joined the diplomatic service in 1898. In 1904 he became a journalist and reported the Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria; later he was a correspondent in Russia and Constantinople. He is credited with having discovered Chekov's work in Moscow and helping to introduce it to the West. Baring is remembered as a versatile, prolific and highly successful writer, who produced articles, plays, biographies, criticism, poetry, translations, stories and novels. He is regarded as a representative of the social culture that flourished in England before World War I, his work highly regarded to this day for the acute intimate portraits of the time.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1451000669
• ISBN 13: 9781451000665
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 476
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible