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"In this book, David Pryce-Jones discusses a collection of works personally given to him by famous authors"-- Full description
- PREFACE
- MAHMUD ABU SHILBAYAH
- HAROLD ACTON
- SIDNEY ALEXANDER
- SVETLANA ALLILUYEVA
- KINGSLEY AMIS
- WILLIAM ANDERSON
- NOEL ANNAN
- W.H. AUDEN
- BERYL BAINBRIDGE
- ELLIOTT BAKER
- ARTURO AND ILSA BAREA
- SYBILLE BEDFORD
- SAUL BELLOW
- BERNARD BERENSON
- ISAIAH BERLIN
- ADRIAN BERRY
- JOHN BETJEMAN
- PRINCESS MARTHE BIBESCO
- PAUL BOWLES
- ARNO BREKER
- CHRISTOPHER BURNEY
- RAYMOND CARR
- JUDY CASSAB
- NIRAD C. CHAUDHURI
- ALASDAIR CLAYRE
- LUCIEN COMBELLE
- CYRIL CONNOLLY
- ROBERT CONQUEST
- ANTHONY DANIELS alias Theodore Dalrymple
- PHILIPPE DAUDY
- MILOVAN DJILAS
- LAWRENCE DURRELL
- AMOS ELON
- JOHN FULLER
- NICHOLAS GAGE
- MARTHA GELLHORN
- MARTIN GILBERT
- PHILIP GLAZEBROOK
- HERBERT GOLD
- OLEG GORDIEVSKY
- MICHAEL GRANT
- ROBERT GRAVES
- JOHN GROSS
- FREDERIC V. GRUNFELD
- ROMAN HALTER
- ALDOUS HUXLEY
- PAUL IGNOTUS
- B.S. JOHNSON
- DAVID JONES
- ERNST JÜNGER
- ALFRED KAZIN
- ELIE KEDOURIE
- J.B. KELLY
- ARTHUR KOESTLER
- WALTER LAQUEUR
- PETER LEVI
- BERNARD LEVIN
- BERNARD LEWIS
- ROSE MACAULAY
- KANAN MAKIYA
- OLIVIA MANNING
- W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
- JESSICA MITFORD
- NANCY MITFORD
- DOM MORAES
- LAURENT MURAWIEC
- V.S. NAIPAUL
- HUGH NISSENSON
- EDNA O'BRIEN
- STANLEY OLSON
- IRIS ORIGO
- J.B. PRIESTLEY
- GWYNEDD RAE
- JEAN-FRANÇOIS REVEL
- GREGOR VON REZZORI
- ERICH SEGAL
- ALAN SILLITOE
- ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER
- MURIEL SPARK
- ALBERT SPEER
- JOHN STEWART
- MARK STRAND
- AMIR TAHERI
- BENJAMIN TAMMUZ
- A.J.P. TAYLOR
- WILFRED THESIGER
- GEORGE WEIDENFELD
- DAME REBECCA WEST
- MICHAEL WHARTON
- ALEXANDER YAKOVLEV
- AFTERWORD