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The Eleventh House. Memoirs.
Hudson Strode
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Description for The Eleventh House. Memoirs.
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; BM; HBJK; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. .
"Every place I visited," says Hudson Strode, "was like a surprise package to be opened, and I untied the strings with high expectations." Reading The Eleventh House: Memoirs is like going to a party of smartly dressed guests.
Strode starts his foreign travels in Sorrento with Dante's descendant Count Dante Serego-Alighieri as his guide. He takes a Russian cattle boat to Tunisia and lunches with the lovely Countess de Brazza. Then he embarks on a whirlwind tour of South America and writes South by Thunderbird. Later, in England, he visits Rebecca West at her country home and ... Read more
"Every place I visited," says Hudson Strode, "was like a surprise package to be opened, and I untied the strings with high expectations." Reading The Eleventh House: Memoirs is like going to a party of smartly dressed guests.
Strode starts his foreign travels in Sorrento with Dante's descendant Count Dante Serego-Alighieri as his guide. He takes a Russian cattle boat to Tunisia and lunches with the lovely Countess de Brazza. Then he embarks on a whirlwind tour of South America and writes South by Thunderbird. Later, in England, he visits Rebecca West at her country home and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817358907
SKU
V9780817358907
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Ref
99-1
About Hudson Strode
Hudson Strode (1892–1976), renowned author of a three-volume biography of Jefferson Davis, also wrote a number of widely acclaimed books on his world travels, among them Sweden: Model for a World, Ultimates in the Far East: Travels in the Orient and India, Timeless Mexico, and The Story of Bermuda. He enjoyed a distinguished career as a professor of English at ... Read more
Reviews for The Eleventh House. Memoirs.
Hudson Strode with F. Scott Fitzgerald: His ideal, he said, was to live the life of a hedonist. He argued that pleasure is the sole or chief good in life and that moral duty is fulfilled in the gratification of pleasure-seeking instincts. “We shall get all the joy out of life we can,” he said. “And then when I reach ... Read more