A Victorian Son An Autobiography by Stuart Cloete Hardcover Book

Title: A Victorian Son An Autobiography by Stuart Cloete Hardcover Book.
Author: Stuart Cloete.
Type: Non-Fiction / Autobiography.
Edition: First Edition 1972.
Publisher: Collins.
Year First Published: 1972.
Format: Hardcover Book with dust jacket.
Printed By: illiam Collins Sons & Co, Ltd, Glasgow.
Page Count: 309 pages.
Width: 14.5cm
Height: 22.0cm
Thickness: 3.0cm
Info: A Victorian son: an autobiography, 1897-1922.
Stuart Cloete who was the author of Turning Wheels , Rags of Glory and How Young They Died , now turns to the story of his own eventful life. His work has been intimately connected with the three ruling influences in his his birth and childhood in Paris, his World War One experiences an his growing consciousness of his Boer heritage, stemming from his father's people who came to South Africa with Van Riebeeck.In this first volume of autobiography, Stuart Cloete describes with loving nostalgia Paris of La Belle Epoque , when women were feminine, fathers were stern and children seen and seldom heard except by their wet-nurses and uniformed nannies.After attending public school in England, Stuart Cloete went straight into the army, being one of the youngest commissioned officers in the war, in which he served in the Yorkshire Light Infantry, transferring later to the Coldstream Guards. Twice wounded in action, the second time very seriously, readers of How Young They Died will soon realise how much of his own story went into that superb novel of life in the trenches, with the blood and mud relieved only occasionally by the gaiety of London. This first volume ends in 1922 when Major Stuart Cloete, now married, resumes life in France.
Condition: Good, all pages and binding intact, no loose pages. some foxing and tanning front and rear. Cover boards are good, the dust jacket shows wear and tear. Internally the pages are very good.
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