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The Familiar Presence and Other Reminiscences

A. R. Chisholm

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Description:These are graceful and entertaining essays in reminiscence. They are also much more. They bridge, like the author's own experience, the extraordinary gulf now fixed by time and events between the world before 1914 and that of the 1960s. Few other writers have recreated past experience with such tolerant shrewdness, and such undimmed and evocative precision.Professor Chisholm writes of a vanished Australia, France, and Britain - as he did in earlier essays published in 1958 in Men Were My Milestones. There is youth in a forgotten Australia, and a Sydney far different from today's. There is the muddy horror of France and Flanders after 1915. There is Paris before 1914; a pint of sherry with Hilaire Belloc; meetings with Paul Valery, Gustave Cohen, Paul Passy, and Charles Maurras; and memories of 'Les Compliques', the lunching-club dominated by that great Australian poet and scholar, Christopher Brennan.These are wise and kindly memories, exact and sometimes whimsical. They invite and repay reading.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Familiar Presence and Other Reminiscences. To get started finding The Familiar Presence and Other Reminiscences, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 98

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Publisher: Melbourne University Press

Release: 1966

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Description: These are graceful and entertaining essays in reminiscence. They are also much more. They bridge, like the author's own experience, the extraordinary gulf now fixed by time and events between the world before 1914 and that of the 1960s. Few other writers have recreated past experience with such tolerant shrewdness, and such undimmed and evocative precision.Professor Chisholm writes of a vanished Australia, France, and Britain - as he did in earlier essays published in 1958 in Men Were My Milestones. There is youth in a forgotten Australia, and a Sydney far different from today's. There is the muddy horror of France and Flanders after 1915. There is Paris before 1914; a pint of sherry with Hilaire Belloc; meetings with Paul Valery, Gustave Cohen, Paul Passy, and Charles Maurras; and memories of 'Les Compliques', the lunching-club dominated by that great Australian poet and scholar, Christopher Brennan.These are wise and kindly memories, exact and sometimes whimsical. They invite and repay reading.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Familiar Presence and Other Reminiscences. To get started finding The Familiar Presence and Other Reminiscences, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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