A Distant Prospect - Paperback

by Lord Gerald Hugh Tyrwitt-Wilson Berners (Author)

A witty, poignant account of Eton, early adolescence, awakining to the spell of Wagner.

Author Biography

Lord Berners (1883-1950) was a composer, novelist, painter, memoirist, conspicuous aesthete and the real life character on whom Nancy Mitford based Lord Merlin in The Pursuit of Love. This versatile peer has been called the English Satie. His ballets have been choreographed by Balanchine and Ashton.