The Journey Not the Arrival Matters: An Autobiography of the Years 1939 to 1969The author's account of World War II, his wife's death, and his political and literary activities. "A splendid ending to one of the most remarkable literary achievements of our time" (New York Times Book Review). Index; photographs. |
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Page 38
... Kingsley Martin about something and at ten o'clock next morning Virginia and I walked round to the New Statesman ... Kingsley's room and there standing by himself with his hat in his hand in the empty room was a man who said to me in a ...
... Kingsley Martin about something and at ten o'clock next morning Virginia and I walked round to the New Statesman ... Kingsley's room and there standing by himself with his hat in his hand in the empty room was a man who said to me in a ...
Page 54
... Kingsley Martin sat talk- ing after dinner until 2.30 in the morning . Kingsley , " diffusing his soft charcoal gloom " , prophesied the defeat of the French and the invasion of Britain within five weeks . A Fifth Column would get to ...
... Kingsley Martin sat talk- ing after dinner until 2.30 in the morning . Kingsley , " diffusing his soft charcoal gloom " , prophesied the defeat of the French and the invasion of Britain within five weeks . A Fifth Column would get to ...
Page 102
... Kingsley Martin wanted to go off abroad . What I most wanted to do was to write books , but I found it difficult to get the time to do this . Though I reckoned the Press to be for me a quarter - time occupation , it was the most ...
... Kingsley Martin wanted to go off abroad . What I most wanted to do was to write books , but I found it difficult to get the time to do this . Though I reckoned the Press to be for me a quarter - time occupation , it was the most ...
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