Lord Berners - The Last Eccentric

Informationen zum Autor Mark Amory has been the Literary Editor of The Spectator for the last twenty-five years, thus making him the longest serving Literary Editor in London. In addition to his Lord Berners biographer he has written one on Lord Dunsany, as well as editing the published letters of Ann Fleming and Evelyn Waugh and a volume of Marc Boxer's drawings and cartoons. Klappentext Lord Berners was a composer! writer! painter! aesthete and eccentric! indeed in Mark Amory's words 'The Last Eccentric'! famously dyeing the pigeons at his house! Faringdon! in vibrant colours! and! for a time! having a giraffe as a pet and tea companion. This is a social history and a chronicle of a mad-cap English eccentric. Zusammenfassung Lord Berners was a composer, writer, painter, aesthete and eccentric, indeed in Mark Amory's words 'The Last Eccentric', famously dyeing the pigeons at his house, Faringdon, in vibrant colours, and, for a time, having a giraffe as a pet and tea companion. This is a social history and a chronicle of a mad-cap English eccentric.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mark Amory, Sam Leith, Leith Sam
• Con la collaborazione di: Mar Amory (Editore), Mark Amory (Editore)
• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 11.12.2008
• EAN: 9780571247653
• ISBN: 978-0-571-24765-3
• Pagine: 304
• Dimensioni: 153 mm x 234 mm x 22 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, The arts: general issues, ART / General, The arts: general topics