Author: HART-DAVIS, RUPERT (1907-1999)
Title: Halfway to heaven : concluding memoirs of a literary life / Rupert Hart-Davis
Description: Stroud : Sutton 1998. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.Physical description; xii. 163 p. : ill. ports. ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes index. Contents; A firm is born; love and taxes; halfway to heaven. Appendices: tribute by Richard Garnett on my 90th birthday; books dedicated to Rupert Hart-Davis. Summary; In this volume. Rupert Hart-Davies recalls the last 50 years of his life. the many actors and writers he knew. among them Peggy Ashcroft (his first wife). Joyce Grenfell. Arthur Ransome. Alistair Cooke and T.S. Eliot. He recounts the post-war establishment of his publishing company. Rupert Hart-Davies Ltd. his great friendship with Siegfried Sassoon. whose letters and diaries he later edited. Alongside this he also tells of family life in Oxfordshire and Yorkshire. and of his love for Ruth Simon. who eventually becomes his wife. Subjects; Hart-Davis. Rupert (1907-1999). Publishers and publishing — Great Britain — Biography. Editors — Great Britain — Biography. English literature — 20th century — Publishing — History. Authors. English — 20th century — Biography. Great Britain — Intellectual life — (1945-). Biography & autobiography: general. Literary studies: from (c 1900-). Biography & Autobiography / Literary. Publishers and publishing ; Great Britain ; Biography ; Authors. English ; 20th century. Hart-Davis. Rupert. Genres; Autobiography. Illustrated. ISBN: 0750918373. Weight in Kg appr.:

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