C (Twentieth Century Classics) - Softcover

Baring, Maurice

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9780192819420: C (Twentieth Century Classics)

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ISBN 10: 0192819429 ISBN 13: 9780192819420

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1986

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Throughout his short, unhappy life, C acquired a reputation for secrecy. Misunderstood by his parents and classmates, he became accustomed to hiding his true feelings and it was only after his death that the details of his private life were discovered. C's personal effects were sent to Maurice Baring, who wrote this fictionalized account of his unhappy life, based on true events and personalities.

Maurice Baring was the author of over 50 works, including plays, biographies, translations, poetry, and novels.

Emma Letley is a novelist and critic.

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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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He is brimful of talent of every kind, and there runs through everything he does a streak of real originality.--J B Priestly

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