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Peculiar People
Augustus John Cuthbert Hare
其他書名
The Story of My Life
出版
Academy Chicago Publishers
, 1995
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General
Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
Fiction / General
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
History / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901)
Reference / Curiosities & Wonders
ISBN
0897333888
9780897333887
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=q3VnAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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.