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Synopsis
In The Puppet Show of Memory, Maurice Baring invites readers to walk through a life shaped by memory.
This moving memoir blends childhood scenes with bursts of cultural and theatrical history. From a London nursery and a country home to the glimmer of summer nights and revered stage legends, the book threads intimate recollections with broad reflections on how memory selects what to keep.
- Vivid scenes of the nursery, family life, and early, shaping moments in London and the countryside -Reflections on summers at Coombe Cottage and the magic of a perfect night in nature- Portraits of theater, artists, and their enduring influence on art and culture
- Thoughts on memory itself, memory as an artist, and the way past moments illuminate the present
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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.
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A classic autobiography.--Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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