James Lees Milne

Author : Michael Bloch
Publisher : John Murray Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Lees-Milne written by Michael Bloch and published by John Murray Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Lees-Milne is remembered for his work for the National Trust, rescuing some of England's greatest architectural treasures. Michael Bloch portrays a life rich in contradictions, in which an unassuming youth overtook more dazzling contemporaries to emerge as a leading figure in the fields of conservation and letters.

Author : James Lees-Milne
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1848547099
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diaries, 1942-1954 written by James Lees-Milne and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diaries of the National Trust's country house expert James Lees-Milne (1908-97) have been hailed as 'one of the treasures of contemporary English literature'. The first of three, this volume, which includes interesting material omitted when the diaries were originally published during the author's lifetime, covers the years 1942 to 1954, beginning with his wartime visits to hard-pressed country house owners, and ending with his marriage to the exotic Alvilde Chaplin.

Author : James Lees-Milne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780859552820
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancestral Voices written by James Lees-Milne and published by . This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first volume of James Lees-Milne's addictive diaries, the author, discharged from the Army for health reasons, has returned to work for the National Trust - then with a memership of only 6,000 and owning only about half a dozen houses open to the public. Staff and offices have been removed to West Wycombe Park, in Buckinghamshire. He describes his employment as a 'combination of hard labour and sheer fun'. It certainly involves some quirky encounters. -- Book cover.

Author : James Lees-Milne
Publisher : Trafalgar Square Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780719555992
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through Wood and Dale written by James Lees-Milne and published by Trafalgar Square Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume of James Lees-Milne's incomparable diaries sees him cope with publication of the earliest two, Ancestral Voices and Prophesying Peace. Most friends are amused and delighted, a few claim to be mortified. Even comparisons with Pepys, however, can scarcely calm the author's misgivings." "These diaries like the others are full of surprises. Over dinner, Winston Churchill re-enacts the battle of Jutland with wine glasses and decanters, puffing cigar smoke to represent the guns. Anthony Powell admits an attraction to girls who look as if they might have slept out for a week, perhaps under a hedge. The old Princess Royal's helpless laughter is quenched by her maid, who hurriedly reads random verses from the Bible. Nor is JL-M's eye less sharp, as he observes Bob Boothby's pleasure in describing the drawbacks of fame, or Graham Sutherland's fear of being too gracious to the undeserving." "Logan Pearsall Smith once wrote that we need a little malice to prevent our affection for those we love from becoming flat. These diaries perfectly illustrate that truth."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : James Lees-Milne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Mornings written by James Lees-Milne and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Lees-Milne
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1848547110
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diaries, 1984-1997 written by James Lees-Milne and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : James Lees-Milne
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 1848547102
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diaries, 1971-1983 written by James Lees-Milne and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny, indiscreet, candid, touching and sharply observed, this second compilation from James Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries covers his life during his sixties and early seventies, when he was living in Gloucestershire with his formidable wife Alvilde. It vividly portrays life on the Badminton estate of the eccentric Duke of Beaufort, meetings with many friends (including John Betjeman, Bruce Chatwin and the Mitford sisters) and the diarist's varied emotional experiences. Having made his name as the National Trust's country houses expert and a writer on architecture, he now established himself as a novelist and biographer. With some misgivings he published his wartime diaries, little imagining that it was as a diarist that he would achieve lasting fame.

Author : James Lees-Milne
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 : 9780719565816
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Milk of Paradise written by James Lees-Milne and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2006-07-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelfth and final volume of James Lees-Milne's magnificent diary covers the last five years of his life, until a few weeks before his death at the age of eighty-nine. Old age and infirmity have not diminished his interest in life, and he expresses sharp and original views on everything from modern architecture to New Labour. After the loss of his bossy but beloved wife Alvilde, he devotes himself to visiting friends, observing their habits and relishing their gossip and anecdotes. Whether describing an afternoon with the Prince of Wales, a week-end at Chatsworth, a nostalgic return to the scenes of his youth or a day at the latest London exhibitions, he displays the same mixture of candour, waspish wit, eloquent exasperation and human understanding which has delighted his readers since the first of these volumes appeared in 1975.

Author : James Lees-Milne
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Earls of Creation written by James Lees-Milne and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Lees-Milne
Publisher : John Murray Pubs Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780719553622
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Mingled Measure written by James Lees-Milne and published by John Murray Pubs Limited. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: