Augustus Hare, Julia Anderson-Miller

Broschiertes Buch

Peculiar People

The Story of My Life

Herausgeber: Miller, Anita

Beschreibung

Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1834-1903) was a travel writer, a story teller and memoirist of the first order, and his work is a record of a lost way of life amongst the strangest upper classes of English society. This volume is a condensation of the 6-volume autobiography was published between 1899-1903 in England.

Autor

Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1834-1903) was a Victorian writer who had clung, so to speak, to the edges of fame. He was born into the maddest of upper-class English families and survived one of the cruelest of childhoods to write monumental travel guides to the Continent and a six-volume autobiography, The Story of My Life. That autobiography is now extremely rare and growing rarer - since every day copies of it, even in libraries, crumble into dust. This is a one-volume condensation of this remarkable work, containing what the editors consider to be the highlights of Augustus Hare's harrowing tale, beginning with his birth, shortly following which his lackadaisical parents gave him to a relative, assuring her that if she wanted more children she should let them know, because they had others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chicago Review Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 141mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780897335492
• ISBN-10: 089733549X
• Artikelnr.: 21830642