Found Text | June 01, 2010
Pulling Pranks: James Stern's Reminiscences of an Edwardian Childhood
Kris Somerville ,Speer Morgan
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James Stern never achieved literary celebrity. His books were few, his letters many and his memoir unfinished, yet what he wrote was the stuff of life-the beauty and tragedy of humanity. His memoir, “the problem book,” was not fashioned into a comprehensive work; what we show you from the Stern collection of the British Library are recollections that capture the adventure of childhood set against the backdrop of a mythical time and rarefied place.
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