Puppet Show of Memory (Cassell Biographies) - Softcover

Baring, Maurice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0304314447 ISBN 13: 9780304314447

Publisher: Sterling Publishing, 1987

Synopsis

The Puppet Show of Memory by Maurice BaringMaurice Baring (1874-1945) was a versatile English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent. The Puppet Show of Memory is an autobiography.

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About the Author

Born in London in 1874, Maurice Baring was a man of letters, a scion of a family long prominent in the financial ventures of the British Empire. The son of the 1st Baron Revelstoke (a director of the Bank of England and a senior partner at Baring Bros.) he was educated at Eton and at Cambridge, and joined the diplomatic service in 1898. In 1904 he became a journalist and reported the Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria; later he was a correspondent in Russia and Constantinople. He is credited with having discovered Chekov's work in Moscow and helping to introduce it to the West. Baring is remembered as a versatile, prolific and highly successful writer, who produced articles, plays, biographies, criticism, poetry, translations, stories and novels. He is regarded as a representative of the social culture that flourished in England before World War I, his work highly regarded to this day for the acute intimate portraits of the time.

Review

A classic autobiography.--Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Edition details

• Publisher: Sterling Publishing
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0304314447
• ISBN 13: 9780304314447
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 457