Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some light tanning due to age. Year 1952. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> In this biography Rupert Hart-Davis a close friend of Hugh Walpole’s later years and one of his executors skilfully portrays both the man and the writer. Wisely he has allowed his subject as often as not to speak for himself. This was possible because the Walpole papers were voluminous- daily diaries covering thirty-seven years elaborated journals innumer- able letters. The writers of the letters (almost all published here for the first time) include Henry James John Galsworthy “Elizabeth” Somerset Maugham Arnold Bennett Joseph Conrad Virginia Woolf-in short most of the leading authors of the day. And the letters are personal docu- ments frankly and freely reflecting Hugh Walpole’s character and varying moods not mere notes of literary chit-chat. A unique personality emerges from this book-a man eternally in conflict with himself a perfect subject for a psychologist’s case-book an enchant- ing companion moving restlessly from friend to friend a man for ever seeking happiness but never quite achieving it; on the whole a remark- able man a good man a lovable man whose life story is packed with human interest. That was the man; there was also the writer. (SP)