More Memoirs of an Aesthete Harold Acton

Name: More Memoirs of an Aesthete By Harold Acton
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More Memoirs of an Aesthete by Harold Acton

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In this delightful sequel to Memoirs of an Aesthete Harold Acton continues where he left off in 1939. Packed with recollections of the famous personalities he knew such as the Sitwells, Norman Douglas, Bernard Berenson, Gertrude Stein and Evelyn Waugh, this book brilliantly evokes a society that now seems remote.

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More Memoirs of an Aesthete by Harold Acton

About Harold Acton

Harold Acton (1904-1994) was a writer, scholar and aesthete who listed as his principal recreation 'hunting the philistines'. From the balcony of his Oxford rooms he famously declaimed passages from The Waste Land through a megaphone.He wrote in many different mediums, publishing nearly thirty books, with his poetry and fiction being markedly less successful than his other works.

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GOR008213578

ISBN 13

9780571247677

ISBN 10

0571247679

Title

More Memoirs of an Aesthete by Harold Acton

Author

Harold Acton

Series

Memoirs of Harold Acton

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Year published

20081211

Number of pages

412

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N/A

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