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OverviewThese days hardly anyone remembers Augustus John Curthbert Hare (1834-1903). But in his prime, the late Victorian age, his name was on the lips of anyone who mattered. He was a travel writer, a storyteller and a memoirist of the first order, and his work is a fascinating record of a lost way of life amongst the strangest upper classes of English society. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Augustus Hare , Anita Miller , James Papp , Julia Anderson HarePublisher: Academy Chicago Publishers Imprint: Academy Chicago Publishers Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 14.30cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.50cm Weight: 0.503kg ISBN: 9780897333887ISBN 10: 0897333888 Pages: 350 Publication Date: 06 December 2004 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationAugustus John Cuthbert Hare (1834-1903) was a Victorian writer who had clung, so to speak, to the edges of fame. He was born into the maddest of upper-class English families and survived one of the cruelest of childhoods to write monumental travel guides to the Continent and a six-volume autobiography, The Story of My Life. That autobiography is now extremely rare and growing rarer - since every day copies of it, even in libraries, crumble into dust. This is a one-volume condensation of this remarkable work, containing what the editors consider to be the highlights of Augustus Hare's harrowing tale, beginning with his birth, shortly following which his lackadaisical parents gave him to a relative, assuring her that if she wanted more children she should let them know, because they had others. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |