Diaries, 1942-1954
$46.10
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2007
Summary
James Lees-Milne (1908-97) made his name as the country house expert of the National Trust and for being a versatile author. But he is now best known for the remarkable diary he kept for most of his adult life, which has been compared with that of Samuel Pepys and hailed as ‘a treasure of contemporary English literature’.
The first of three, this volume covers its first dozen years, beginning with his return to work for the National Trust during the Second World War, and ending with h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780719566813 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0719566819 |
| Author: | James Lees-Milne, Michael Bloch |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2007 |
| Weight: | 359g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 133mm x 33mm |
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Just as querulous, misanthropic, greedy, vain and fascinating as ever. One reads, one deplores - and reads on with vindictive delight - Patrick Skene-Caitling, Sunday Telegraph
The greatest diarist of our times - funny, feline and disconcertingly honest, wielding a rapier to Alan Clark’s cudgel - Jeremy Lewis, The OldieHis wonderful diaries demonstrates to anyone with eyes to see that he was a superb chronicler of the human condition - Hugh Massingberd, SpectatorFunny, shrewd, waspish and wise … Lees-Milne was the greatest diarist of this century, and one of its finest writers - Jeremy Lewis, Literary ReviewNothing short of phenomenal … surely the finest diary of the 20th Century, truly a great masterpiece of English literature - Hugh Massingberd, Country LifeWithout question one of the finest diarists of the 20th century - Selina Hastings, SpectatorAbout The Author
James Lees-Milne
Born in 1953, Michael Bloch read law at St John’s College, Cambridge, and was called to the bar by the Inner Temple. He worked for Ma tre Suzanne Blum, the Parisian lawyer of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and wrote six books about the couple. His other subjects include Hitler’s foreign minister Ribbentrop, F. M. Alexander (founder of the Alexander Technique) and the politician Jeremy Thorpe. He met James Lees-Milne in 1979, became his literary executor on his death in 1997, has edited the final five volumes of his diary and is currently writing his biography.
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