Synopsis
A lyrical memoir that threads memory, landscape, and art from a London nursery to the world of theatre. The book revisits childhood moments—cradled by family, nannies, and a magical toy—while tracing how memory selects the sights and sounds worth keeping, and how the imagination transforms them into lasting wonder.
From the echoing streets of early London to summer days at Coombe Cottage, the pages fuse sensory detail with mood. The author reflects on the power of memory to illuminate art, and on how famous performances and painters echo the inner life of a child growing up among books, pictures, and music.
- Experience intimate, vividly described scenes from nursery life, family, and early childhood.
- See how memory acts as an editor, shaping what remains precious and worth retelling.
- Discover portraits of theatre, literature, and the artists who redefine what we call art.
- Enjoy rich allusions to poetry, music, and visual art that deepen the memoir’s texture.
Ideal for readers who love reflective memoirs that blend personal recollection with cultural history, and for those curious about how memory and art intertwine.
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A classic autobiography.--Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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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