Osbert sitwell autobiography samples

Autobiography of an amusing British eccentric.

Sitwell's autobiography, Left Hand, Right Hand.

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Collected Stories

Book Source:Digital Library of India Item 2015.150202

dc.contributor.author: Sitwell, Osbert
dc.date.accessioned: 2015-07-06T14:30:42Z
dc.date.available: 2015-07-06T14:30:42Z
dc.date.digitalpublicationdate: 2013-03-03
dc.identifier.barcode: 99999990344141
dc.identifier.origpath: /data15/upload/0034/971
dc.identifier.copyno: 1
dc.identifier.uri: http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/150202
dc.description.scanningcentre: North Eastern States Libraries
dc.description.main: 1
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dc.description.totalpages: 559
dc.format.mimetype: application/pdf
dc.language.iso: English
dc.publisher.digitalrepublisher: Digital Library Of India
dc.publisher: Gerald Duckworth, London
dc.rights: In Public Domain
dc.source.library: Birchandra State huvud Library, Tripura
dc.subject.classification: Literature
dc.subject.classification: English Story
dc.subject.keywords: Love Bird
dc.subject.keywords: Shadow Play
dc.subject.keywords: Glow Worm
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Seventy-one notebooks with handwritten drafts of a wide variety of works make up a large portion of the Osbert Sitwell Collection, along with galley files and typescripts of additional titles, and an extensive assortment of correspondence. The collection is arranged in five series: Series I. Works, 1898-1965 (28 boxes); Series II. Correspondence, 1902-1969 (12.5 boxes); Series III. Personal Papers, 1898-1969 (.5 boxes); Series IV. David Horner, 1932-1966 (2.5 boxes); and Series V. Third Party Works and Correspondence, 1887-1969 (1.5 boxes). Portions of this collection were previously accessible through a card catalog, but have been re-cataloged as part of a retrospective conversion project to include new accessions.The Works series is composed of page and galley proofs for all five volumes of Sitwell's autobiography, Left Hand, Right Hand. Holograph and typescript drafts of the collected essays of Penny Foolish are present, as are drafts

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One of the meanest and truest things that have been said about the Sitwells was F. R. Leavis’s comment that they belong not so much to the history of literature as to the history of publicity. The three Sitwell siblings, Edith, born in 1887, Osbert, five years her junior, and Sacheverell, five years younger still and known to family and friends as Sachie, were among the earliest examples of that twentieth-century phenomenon, the person who is famous for being famous. In his gossipy and pleasantly readable new biography of Osbert Sitwell, Philip Ziegler estimates that at the height of Osbert’s success, for every one person who had read his books there were ten who knew something of him and his family. Today the ratio would probably be more like one to a thousand. Most educated people know who Osbert Sitwell was, but you don’t often see anyone curled up with one of his books, not even Left Hand, Right Hand!, the five-volume autobiography that was so extremely popular during the Fort