Harold Nicolson: Volume I - A Biography, 1886-1929

Informationen zum Autor James Lees-Milne Klappentext Harold Nicolson - great diplomat! diarist and raconteur - moved in numerous worlds and knew an extraordinary number of distinguished people. This title traces the life through Nicolson's nomadic childhood in Budapest! Tehran! Constantinople and Bulgaria! his education at Wellington and Balliol! his independent travels in Europe! and more. Zusammenfassung 'An absorbing portrait of an extinct type of Englishman.' Sunday Times 'A scintillating, pointillist portrait of the beginnings of a career and a marriage.' Times Harold Nicolson - great diplomat, diarist and raconteur - moved in numerous worlds and knew an extraordinary number of distinguished people.

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• Authors: LEES MILNE JAMES, James Lees-Milne, Lees-Milne James
• Assisted by: Lees-Miln (Editor), Lees-Milne (Editor), James Lees-Milne (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.01.2012
• EAN: 9780571287864
• ISBN: 978-0-571-28786-4
• No. of pages: 440
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Harold Nicolson biography; Harold Nicolson biography
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; England, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, Biography: historical, political and military, Faber Finds; Journalism; Politicians; Writers