A Victorian Son. An Autobiography. 1897-1922

London England: Collins, 1972. Hardback. A Victorian Son. Slight wear to top and bottom edge of spine of D/J.price clipped Stuart Cloete, who has achieved world fame as the author of such best-selling novels as Turning Wheels, Rags of Glory and How Young They Died, now turns to the story of his own eventful life. And it is fitting that he should, because his work has been intimately connecteed with the three ruling influences in his life: his birth and childhood in Paris (he was born in 1897), his World War One experiences, and the growing consciousness of his Boer heritage, stemming from his father's people, who came out to South Africa with Van Riebeck, his great-grandfather Henry Cloete having become Chief Justice of the Cape and later High Commissioner of Natal. In this first volume of authorbiography, Stuart Cloete describes with loving nostalgia Paris of La Belle Epoque, when women were feminine, fathers were stern and children seen and seldom heard except by their wet-nurses and uniformed nannies. 319 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo. Hardback.