Peculiar People: The Story of My Life - Hardcover

Hare, Augustus

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0897333888 ISBN 13: 9780897333887

Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers, 1995

Synopsis

These days, hardly anyone remembers Augustus John Cuthbert 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 story teller and 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. Hare's 6-volume autobiography was published between 1899-1903 in England; and this is a 1-volume condensation of this remarkable work.

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From the Back Cover:

Augustus 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.

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Augustus Hare

About this edition

• Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0897333888
• ISBN 13: 9780897333887
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 324
• Editor: Miller Anita