Memories
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
A luminous window into one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary minds, Memories gathers the recollections and reflections of Desmond MacCarthy, the pre-eminent British critic whose pen shaped the literary tastes of an entire generation. With forewords by Raymond Mortimer and Cyril Connolly — themselves titans of English letters — the collection presents a rich tapestry of personal encounters, intellectual friendships, and cultural observations drawn from MacCarthy's long career at the heart of Bloomsbury and beyond. MacCarthy's prose is at once intimate and authoritative, carrying the warm cadence of a seasoned conversationalist who counted Virginia Woolf, G.E. Moore, and G.B. Shaw among his intimates. The essays that comprise Memories illuminate not only the man himself but the extraordinary world he inhabited — a vanishing England of salons, literary journals, and impassioned debate. For readers who cherish the art of the personal essay and the texture of a well-lived intellectual life, this volume poses an irresistible question: what does it mean to have witnessed, and helped to define, an age?
Author: Desmond Maccarthy
Format: Hardback
Published: 1953, MacGibbon & Kee
Genre: Biography
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
A luminous window into one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary minds, Memories gathers the recollections and reflections of Desmond MacCarthy, the pre-eminent British critic whose pen shaped the literary tastes of an entire generation. With forewords by Raymond Mortimer and Cyril Connolly — themselves titans of English letters — the collection presents a rich tapestry of personal encounters, intellectual friendships, and cultural observations drawn from MacCarthy's long career at the heart of Bloomsbury and beyond. MacCarthy's prose is at once intimate and authoritative, carrying the warm cadence of a seasoned conversationalist who counted Virginia Woolf, G.E. Moore, and G.B. Shaw among his intimates. The essays that comprise Memories illuminate not only the man himself but the extraordinary world he inhabited — a vanishing England of salons, literary journals, and impassioned debate. For readers who cherish the art of the personal essay and the texture of a well-lived intellectual life, this volume poses an irresistible question: what does it mean to have witnessed, and helped to define, an age?