{"product_id":"diaries-19421954-9780719566813","title":"Diaries 19421954","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first of three abridged volumes of 'the greatest diarist of our times'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJust as querulous, misanthropic, greedy, vain and fascinating as ever. One reads, one deplores - and reads on with vindictive delight * Patrick Skene-Caitling, Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eThe greatest diarist of our times - funny, feline and disconcertingly honest, wielding a rapier to Alan Clark's cudgel * Jeremy Lewis, The Oldie *\u003cbr\u003eHis wonderful diaries demonstrates to anyone with eyes to see that he was a superb chronicler of the human condition * Hugh Massingberd, Spectator *\u003cbr\u003e'Funny, shrewd, waspish and wise ... Lees-Milne was the greatest diarist of this century, and one of its finest writers' * Jeremy Lewis, Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003e'Nothing short of phenomenal ... surely the finest diary of the 20th Century, truly a great masterpiece of English literature' * Hugh Massingberd, Country Life *\u003cbr\u003e'Without question one of the finest diarists of the 20th century' * Selina Hastings, Spectator *","brand":"John Murray Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48736190071127,"sku":"9780719566813","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719566813.jpg?v=1723810556","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/diaries-19421954-9780719566813","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}