green c w/gilt titles; 400 clean, unmarked pages; Fourth of his five volumes of autobiography. Together they "are remarkable for the portrait of the eccentric, exasperating figure of his father, Sir George, and their tone is romantic, acidic, nostalgic & affectionate in turn".

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Titre

Laughter in the Next Room

�diteur

Greenwood Press, Westport, CT

Date de parution

1972

Langue

anglais

ISBN � 10 chiffres

0837160421

ISBN � 13 chiffres

9780837160429

Reliure

Hardcover

�tat de l'article

Very Good

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No Jacket

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In 1943 Sitwell started an autobiography that ran to four volumes: Left Hand Right Hand (1943), The Scarlet Tree (1946), Great Morning (1948) and Laughter in the Next Room (1949).

This is the 4th Volume in the Sitwell Autobiography

EVENING STANDARD:” Sir Osbert writes the epitaph of 1919-1939; and one of the grand literary designs of our time is carried to a triumphant climax in this book."

Writing in The Adelphi, George Orwell declared, "although the range they cover is narrow, [they] must be among the best autobiographies of our time.'

Sitwell's autobiography was followed by a collection of essays about various people he had known, Noble Essences: A Book of Characters (1950), and a postscript, Tales my Father Taught Me (1962).

In Who's Who, Sitwell summed up his career:
“For the past 30 years has conducted, in conjunction with his brother and sister, a series of skirmishes and hand-to-hand battles against the Philistine. Though outnumbered, has occasionally succeeded in denting the line, though not without damage to himself.”

Sir George Sitwell, who once stencilled blue ink on his cows to match the pattern of his dinner service, belonged in the category of Great British Eccentrics.

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