Lord Berners

Mark Amory

ISBN 10: 1856192342 / ISBN 13: 9781856192347

Published by Random House (UK) March 1998, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lord Berners
• Publisher: Random House (UK) March 1998
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1856192342
• ISBN 13: 9781856192347
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used - Acceptable
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography

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Synopsis

Composer, writer, painter, and eccentric millionaire, Lord Berners (1883-1950) led a life filled with music, art, travel, and high society. Stravinsky, Picasso, and Salvador Dali; the Sassoons, the Betjemans, and the Sitwells; Harold Nicolson, Frederick Ashton, and Gertrude Stein-all were his friends, and many came to stay at his house near Oxford, where the pigeons were dyed all the colors of the rainbow. A charming, hugely enjoyable portrait of a life that was "alternatively silly, sparkling, and touching."

About the Author

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.