Norman Rose (1)
Autore di Churchill: The Unruly Giant
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Norman Rose (1) ha come alias Norman A. Rose.
Opere di Norman Rose
Opere a cui è stato assegnato l'alias Norman A. Rose.
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- #111,885
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- 3.4
- Recensioni
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- ISBN
- 26
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- 1
Nicolson's personal life was no less dramatic. Married to Vita Sackville-West, one of the most famous writers of her day, their marriage survived, even prospered, despite their both being practising homosexuals. Unashamedly elitist, bound together by their literary, social, and intellectual pursuits, moving in the refined circles of the Bloomsbury group they viewed life from the rarified peaks of aristocratic haughtiness.
Few men could boast such gifts as Nicolson possessed, yet he ended his life plagued by self-doubt. 'I am attempting nothing; therefore I cannot fail,' he once acknowledged. What went wrong? It was a question that haunted Nicolson throughout his adult life. Relying on a wealth of archival material, Norman Rose brilliantly disentangles fact from fiction, setting Nicolson's story of perceived failure against the wider perspective of his times.
A detailed account of Harold Nicolson's life and works. Gives an overview of a man often overlooked as having been overshadowed by his wife's notoriety, celebrity, infamy. Not a negligible contribution to life and letters. I have all of his diaries and biographies and read them all several times. Pleased with this new addition.… (altro)