C. - Couverture souple

Baring M

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 2264006935 ISBN 13 : 9782264006936

Synopsis

poche. Broché.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

It was in January, 1923, that I received a letter from an old friend of mine, a journalist and a traveller, whom I will call Walter Wright, from which the following is an extract:-- New York. July, 1922. . . . You will remember my telling you about Gerald Malone's papers two or three years ago--if not, you will understand what happened if you read the introduction to the manuscript I am sending you to-day, registered and under separate cover. I tried to do what he wanted, and, now it's finished, I want you to read it and tell me whether you think the story could possibly be published as it is. If not, could you re-write and re-cast the whole thing on the basis of the material (all Malone's papers) which I am sending you with what I have done? Should it ever be published I should like it to appear in England. Baring's homage to a decadent and carefree Edwardian age depicts a society as yet untainted by the traumas and complexities of twentieth-century living. With wit and subtlety a happy picture is drawn of family life, house parties in the country and a leisured existence clouded only by the rumblings of the Boer War. Against this spectacle Caryl Bramsley (the C of the title) is presented - a young man of terrific promise but scant achievement, whose tragic-comic tale offsets the privileged milieu.

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 2264006935
• ISBN 13: 9782264006936
• Reliure: Broché