More Memoirs of an Aesthete
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- ISBN 9780571247677
- Weight: 422g
- Dimensions: 126 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 11 Dec 2008
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
