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Halfway to heaven : concluding memoirs of a literary life / Rupert Hart-Davis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hart-Davis, Rupert, 1907-1999.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hart-Davis, Rupert, 1907-1999.
- Hart-Davis, Rupert.
- Publishers and publishing--Great Britain--Biography.
- Publishers and publishing.
- English literature.
- Publishing.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Editors--Great Britain--Biography.
- Editors.
- English literature--20th century--Publishing--History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 163 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stroud, Gloucestershire : Sutton Pub., 1998.
- Summary:
- Rupert Hart-Davis recalls the last fifty years of his life, the many famous actors and writers he knew -- including Peggy Ashcroft (his first wife), Joyce Grenfell, Arthur Ransome. Alistair Cooke and Hugh Walpole; the establishment of his publishing company; his great friendship with Siegfried Sassoon, whose letters and diaries he edited, and family life in Oxfordshire and Yorkshire. It is rich with anecdotes such as T.S. Eliot writing out The Waste Land for him to sell for charity and including a line missing from the original publication.
- Notes:
- Third volume of an autobiographical trilogy.
- "Books by Rupert Hart-Davis" and "Books compiled, edited, and introduced by Rupert Hart-Davis": page vi.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0750918373
- OCLC:
- 40533838
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