Memoirs of an Aesthete
Memoirs of an Aesthete

Author: Harold Acton

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2008-12

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9780571247660

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N this classic memoir Harold Acton offers a witty and vivid account of the first thirty-five years of his life (1904-39): from a boyhood among the dilettanti in Florence before the First World War, through his friendships with some of the great writers of his generation in Oxford and Paris, to his discovery of a spiritual home in Peking.

The Keep
The Keep

Author: Jennifer Egan

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2007-07-10

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0307386619

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "Part horror tale, part mystery, part romance ... utterly fantastic.”—O, The Oprah Magazine • The bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep—the tower, the last stand—is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive. Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results. And as the full horror of their predicament unfolds, a prisoner, in jail for an unnamed crime, recounts an unforgettable story that seamlessly brings the crimes of the past and present into piercing relation.

The Memoirs of Walter Bagehot
The Memoirs of Walter Bagehot

Author: Frank Prochaska

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2013-09-24

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0300195540

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The spirited and measured memoir of Walter Bagehot, had he left one