Frank Harris: [a biography]. (The Holiday Library)

Hugh KINGSMILL, pseud., i.e. Hugh Kingsmill Lunn

Published by London: John Lehmann, 1949

About this Item

Spine slightly faded. First Holiday Library edition ("Specially revised for this edition"; book first published by Jonathan Cape, 1932), with the numerous marginal pencillings, underlinings and rear-endpaper notes of Sir Michael Holroyd, the author's biographer; fragments of dustwrapper loosely inserted. Kingsmill's Times obituary rated his biography of his sometime hero as "an extremely adroit performance, which ruthlessly shattered a never entirely secure legend". Holroyd calls it "a minor classic". "From the time of our first encounter," wrote Kingsmill's friend Hesketh Pearson to Malcolm Muggeridge, "I was constantly urging [Kingsmill] to write on Frank Harris, especially as he had already made the old rascal a leading figure in his first novel, The Will to Love." "Harris," Muggeridge responded, "was a kind of hobby of which he never tired, and I think his Frank Harris is one of the most humorous and delightful biographies in the English language.". Seller Inventory # HK100080

Bibliographic Details

Title: Frank Harris: [a biography]. (The Holiday ...

Publisher: London: John Lehmann

Publication Date: 1949

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good