James Lees-Milne, Michael Bloch

Diaries, 1984-1997 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This final compilation from James Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries covers the last fourteen years of his life, when he was living on the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton estate. Old age and infirmity have not dimmed his sharpness, literary skill or interest in the world around him, and his reflection on people, places and experiences are as vivid as ever. A tour of the Cotsworlds makes him ruefully aware of the yuppy trends of the Thatcher era, while he predicts that the New Labour victory will bring 'a descent into American-style vulgarity and yob culture'. Witty, waspish, poignant and candid, James Lees-Milne's last diaries contain as much to delight as the first, and confirm his reputation as one of the great commentators of his times.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Murray Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781848547117
• Artikelnr.: 39230170

Autorenporträt

James Lees Milne, Michael Bloch (Ed.)

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Praise for the earlier volumes in the series

A master of the diary form, he combines the profound and the inconsequential with his pithy descriptions of personalities and places . . . For their range of interests and emotions, their piquant observation and judicious shifts of self-analysis, Lees-Milnes diaries deserve their august reputation
Christopher Silvester, Daily Express