Thank you, thank you, thank you. These all look great, and will save me from wandering around the shelves and shelves of coffee table books - not that those don't have their place, but sometimes one needs a little more argument. Or any argument at all.
And having to practice my French won't do me any harm, either.
I'm selfishly interested in the Hilton; the 17th and 18th centuries are closer to my time period, but I'd probably better head for the later books first: the faculty concentrate on Diaghilev-and-after.
Autobiographies are hard: not only do they (usually) have to conform to the genre's structure (childhood, adolescence, first love, adversity, success, tragedy, more success, acceptance...), they're also so often squirm-inducingly unaware.
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Date: 2011-07-29 11:35 pm (UTC)And having to practice my French won't do me any harm, either.
I'm selfishly interested in the Hilton; the 17th and 18th centuries are closer to my time period, but I'd probably better head for the later books first: the faculty concentrate on Diaghilev-and-after.
Autobiographies are hard: not only do they (usually) have to conform to the genre's structure (childhood, adolescence, first love, adversity, success, tragedy, more success, acceptance...), they're also so often squirm-inducingly unaware.
Thanks again!