Maurice Baring, son of the banking family, recalls a nursery childhood and the Devon house of Membland, school and Eton, student years in Germany and Italy, diplomatic posts in Paris and Copenhagen, evenings watching Sarah Bernhardt, and his time as a correspondent in Russia, crowded with the writers, statesmen and actors he knew.
One of the most charming English memoirs of its era, for readers of Edwardian society and literary life. Download the free EPUB.