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Have You Anything to Declare? - A Note Book with Commentaries (Paperback, Main)
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Have You Anything to Declare? - A Note Book with Commentaries (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R593
Discovery Miles 5 930
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In a recent survey of Commonplace Books, John Julius Norwich
declared 'the greatest of them all for my money is that of
godfather Maurice Baring. His "Have You Anything to Declare?" has
been on my bedside table since I can remember. Baring was fluent in
at least half a dozen European languages, and they are all
represented here; but he is generous with his translations and one
is constantly amazed by the breadth of his reading.' Coming from
one of the masters of this form, as his annual "Christmas Cracker,"
testifies, this is high praise. And it is deserved. One of the
pleasures of dipping in to commonplace books is serendipity and in
Baring's the quotient could hardly be higher. From Achilles to
Xanthus, by way of Robert Browning, William Cowper, Goethe, Thomas
Hood, Michael Lomonosov, W. H. Mallock, Skelton and H.G. Wells,
just to take a few of the authors that enrich the journey, this is,
as all commonplace books should be, one to refer to endlessly for
the constant joy of unexpected knowledge and entertainment.
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