The Anonymous Bicycle - Third Expanded Edition: Memoranda to My Children

ISBN-13: 9781541394940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 388 str.

Alec Nesbitt

Opis

The odyssey continues with nine new memoranda written with Alec Nesbitt's accustomed dry wit. Many in essay form, these new remembrances add greater depth to the understanding of one of the more fascinating ordinary lives of the twentieth century. From his reflections on the outbreak of World War II in 1939 to his first awareness of anti-Semitism to the birth of a handicapped son, Alec presents his readers with penetrating observations from earliest childhood into his eighties. King George the Sixth is now joined by ruminations upon Bela Bartok and his music as well as Frederick the Great's charming formula for happiness in old age. A student at Oxford of Fine Art and Modern European History, Alec's commentaries on the twentieth century have been acclaimed by scholars and general readers alike.