The author writes in his introduction that evening is the magical moment to wander about Rome: "That is the moment to see the city of conflicting moods as it always has been and still is, hateful and holy, wicked and wise, pagan and papal, sometimes so beautiful that it is scarcely to be endured, and always quite inscrutable. That is the supreme moment to rhapsodize and pay homage, to make the final assault upon the hidden secret of Rome's eternal decay, and to be deliciously deceived The early morning on the other hand is more to our purpose, for it is not at all romantic." The early morning...
The author writes in his introduction that evening is the magical moment to wander about Rome: "That is the moment to see the city of conflicting mood...
'An absorbing portrait of an extinct type of Englishman.' "Sunday Times"
'A scintillating, pointillist portrait of the beginnings of a career and a marriage.' "Times"
Harold Nicolson - great diplomat, diarist and raconteur - moved in numerous worlds and knew an extraordinary number of distinguished people. This, the first volume of James Lee-Milne's superb two-part biography, traces the life through Nicolson's nomadic childhood in Budapest, Tehran, Constantinople and Bulgaria, his education at Wellington and Balliol, his independent travels in Europe, his early diplomatic service...
'An absorbing portrait of an extinct type of Englishman.' "Sunday Times"
'A scintillating, pointillist portrait of the beginnings of a career a...
