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Reflections on world travels, R.A.F. experiences and friendships with cultural leaders Edith Sitwell, Gertrude Stein, Evelyn Waugh, etc....
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 dil...
(vol. 2. The Last Bourbons of Naples, 1825-1861).
1861).
Nancy Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic, a great tease and an acute observer of upper-class British idiosyncrasies. With the publication o...
A Memoir
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in...
Marxism-Leninism as a Philosophical Creed
British thinkers have considered Marxism primarily as a body of economic and social doctrine. They have concentrated attention on the class struggle a...
1 Here, children, is a Theatre. A Theatre is a big Playhouse where actors Actโsometimes. It is a pretty building, is it Not? It costs two big Dollar...
During the first thirty-five years of the author's life he lived in Florence, Oxford, Paris and particularly Peking. That city became his spiritual ho...
ACTON, Harold].
Depicts the lives of three British ambassadors to Italy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and examines the ambassadors' interest in Ital...
The Autobiography
From the 13th to the 17th Centuries
With an Index of Names and an Index of Places
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Pr...
Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, 20th January to 18th February, and at Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, 27th February 1979