Florence A Travellers Companion (The Travellers' companion series)

History

ACTON, Harold

Europe

Constable

Nancy Mitford: A Memoir

Special West End Hardback Edition of the Trade Paperback; this only available biography of Nancy Mitford in the year when her work is being relaunched and televised, by her friend Sir Harold Acton. 'A wonderful portrait of her' The Duchess of Devonshire; 'Gossipy, affectionate and immensely revealing...a hotline to Nancy Mitford...filled with her deliciously funny voice.' Deborah Moggach. The Hon. Nancy Mitford work are satirical masterpieces like those of her male counterpart Evelyn Waugh. This book coincides with the televising of Love in a Cold Climate and programme on her and her sisters. Her life-long friend Harold Acton knew her better than anyone and shows her unusual life and characteristic supreme wit better than anyone else now is able to.

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Hamish Hamilton

In this remarkable book, Harold Acton writes a witty and vivid account of his first thirty-five years of his life from his boyhood among the international colony of dilettanti in Florence before the First World War, to his maturity when he discovered his spiritual home in Peking before the old Chinese culture was destroyed. Between the two, he was one of the brilliant generation up at Oxford just after the war and afterwards moved to Paris where he knew many of the literary and artistic figures of the time. It is an outstanding memoir, rightly regarded as a classic.

Memoirs of an Aesthete

Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

The author describes his life from World War II, when he enlisted in the RAF, to the 1960's and shares anecdotes about Edith Sitwell, Gertrude Stein, and Evelyn Waugh

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Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

The Last Medici

The last Medici

Macmillan

British thinkers have considered Marxism primarily as a body of economic and social doctrine. They have concentrated attention on the class struggle and the alleged decline of capitalism but Marxism is also in a wide sense of the word, a system of thought and conduct comprising views about the principle purposes of human life. This book discusses this philosophy – the metaphysics, ethics and intellectual tradition inaugurated by Marx and Engels and continued by Lenin and Stalin. It first discusses Dialectical materialism and secondly the social theories and ethics known as Scientific Socialism.

The Illusion of the Epoch Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 47: Marxism-Leninism as a Philosophical Creed

Reference

Routledge

, 416 pages, with frontispiece and illustrations throughout

METHUEN

Asia

Methuen Co Ltd

Covers the period of the Accession for Francis I to the death ofFrancis II and the last years of Maria Sophia.

The Last Bourbons of Naples

Methuen and Co. Ltd.

Provides a pictorial tour of Medicean villas and those near Florence, in Siena, and in Lucca, paying equal attention to their history and architecture

The Villas of Tuscany

Travel

Thames&Hudson

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