Some People (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Sir Harold George Nicolson
- First Published: 1927
- Type of Work: Character sketches
- Genres: Nonfiction, Character study
- Subjects: France or French people, Europe or Europeans, Poetry or poets, 1920’s, England or English people, Diplomacy or diplomats
Critical Evaluation:
This rather slender volume is a miniature portrait gallery of people—some real, some composite, some wholly fictional—whom Sir Harold either knew in the flesh or created out of types he encountered in his long experience in the British diplomatic service. He was born in Teheran and moved about in the Balkan and Mediterranean worlds as his father, Lord Carnock, was shifted from one diplomatic post to another. He himself entered the Foreign Office soon after his graduation from Oxford, and there he remained until 1929; hence, he had a wide acquaintance...
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