- [著]Laird McLeod Easton
- カテゴリ:
- ハードカバー (512頁)
- ISBN:
- 0520230353
- 発売元:
- Univ of California Pr (2002/06)
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- ￥ 5,821 (税込)
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2003
06/06
Fri
Rolodex before Rolodex
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An engaging biography of a man whose diary from age twelve till he died (from 1880 to 1937) shows an impressive, nay, astonishing social circle. He had friends with whom he kept in constant contact, and with whom he dined an almost unbelievable number of times, not merely gathering their names, numbers, addresses, cards and certainly not merely name-dropping.
The man was also a patriot of rare privileged background, although he held only one paid job, was described by one of his friends as "lacking in the decisive element", and didn't really achieve much. Nonetheless, WH Auden called him "the most cosmopolitan man who ever lived".
Reasonably interesting read it was.
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