Diaries, 1984-1997

Biography & Memoir
Cover of the book Diaries, 1984-1997 by James Lees-Milne, Michael Bloch, Hodder & Stoughton
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Author: James Lees-Milne, Michael Bloch ISBN: 9781848547117
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Publication: December 21, 2011
Imprint: John Murray Language: English
Author: James Lees-Milne, Michael Bloch
ISBN: 9781848547117
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Publication: December 21, 2011
Imprint: John Murray
Language: English

This final compilation from James Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries covers the last fourteen years of his life, when he was living on the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton estate. Old age and infirmity have not dimmed his sharpness, literary skill or interest in the world around him, and his reflection on people, places and experiences are as vivid as ever. A tour of the Cotsworlds makes him ruefully aware of the yuppy trends of the Thatcher era, while he predicts that the New Labour victory will bring 'a descent into American-style vulgarity and yob culture'. Witty, waspish, poignant and candid, James Lees-Milne's last diaries contain as much to delight as the first, and confirm his reputation as one of the great commentators of his times.

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This final compilation from James Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries covers the last fourteen years of his life, when he was living on the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton estate. Old age and infirmity have not dimmed his sharpness, literary skill or interest in the world around him, and his reflection on people, places and experiences are as vivid as ever. A tour of the Cotsworlds makes him ruefully aware of the yuppy trends of the Thatcher era, while he predicts that the New Labour victory will bring 'a descent into American-style vulgarity and yob culture'. Witty, waspish, poignant and candid, James Lees-Milne's last diaries contain as much to delight as the first, and confirm his reputation as one of the great commentators of his times.

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