Tinker's Leave - Softcover

Baring, Maurice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0755101103 ISBN 13: 9780755101108

Publisher: House of Stratus, 2001

Synopsis

Reserved and unworldly, young Miles Consterdine and his epiphanic trip to Paris is Maurice Baring’s first bead on this thread of a story based on impressions received by the author in Russia and Manchuria during wartime. From here Baring allows us to peek through windows opening onto tragic and comic episodes in the lives of noteworthy people in remarkable circumstances.

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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.

Review:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: House of Stratus
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0755101103
• ISBN 13: 9780755101108
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360