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| Genre/Form: | Diaries |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | James Lees-Milne |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
James Lees-Milne; Michael Bloch |
| ISBN: | 0719565804 9780719565809 |
| OCLC Number: | 61302345 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xiii, 319 p. : port. ; 24 cm. |
| Responsibility: | James Lees-Milne ; edited by Michael Bloch. |
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"- 'As sharp and amusing, as generous and jaundiced, as over' - TLS - 'Just as querulous, misanthropic, greedy, vain and fascinating as ever. One reads, one deplores - and reads on with vindictive delight' - Sunday Telegraph 'The greatest diarist of our times - funny, feline and disconcertingly honest, wielding a rapier to Alan Clark's cudgel' - Jeremy Lowis, The Oldie 'The elegiac tone, the wintriness, gots to be very moving...A major work of literature' - Roger Lewis, Spectator - 'His wonderful diaries demonstrates to anyone with eyes to see that he was a superb chronicler of the human condition' - Hugh Massingberd, Spectator" Read more...
