14th Baron Berners
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Author_Lord Berners
autobiography
Category=DNBH
childhood
closeted
early 20th century
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fox hunt
gay men
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Lord Berners
memoir
posh
sports
upper class
Victorian
Product details
- ISBN 9781885983312
- Weight: 287g
- Dimensions: 132 x 183mm
- Publication Date: 20 Apr 2000
- Publisher: Turtle Point Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In First Childhood Lord Berners demonstrates the neat precision of wit and style which typifies his musical compositions. This is a subtle work of art and a masterpiece of understatement. Autobiography of the very finest quality. Having enjoyed in the course of reading it the loudest and longest laughs I have enjoyed in the last two years I am incapable of making any critical observations. I found the book to be enchanting from cover to cover.' - Daily Mail'
Lord Berners (1883-1950) was a composer, novelist, painter, memoirist, conspicuous aesthete and the real life character on whom Nancy Mitford based Lord Merlin in The Pursuit of Love. This versatile peer has been called the English Satie. His ballets have been choreographed by Balanchine and Ashton.
