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Hermit of Peking: The hidden life of Sir Edmund Backhouse - Softcover

Trevor-Roper, Hugh

 
9781906011017: Hermit of Peking: The hidden life of Sir Edmund Backhouse
Softcover
ISBN 10: 190601101X ISBN 13: 9781906011017
Verlag: Eland Publishing, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

The trail of discovery began when Hugh Trevor-Roper received the memoirs of Sir Edmund Backhouse, the celebrated Chinese scholar, in somewhat unusual circumstances. They described a very different person from the one who had apparently lived such a respectable life until his death in 1944. In them, Backhouse claimed that he had been intimate with characters as diverse as Verlaine and Lord Roseberry, and that his many lovers (of both sexes) had included the Dowager Empress of China. It gradually became clear that the detailed, plausible and obscene memoirs were a work of fantasy - yet a fantasy interwoven with detailed fact. Intruigued, Hugh Trevor-Roper set out to discover as much as he could about Sir Edmund Backhouse, and unearthed the story of one the most outrageous confidence tricksters of the century.

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Verlag
Eland Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
190601101X
ISBN 13 
9781906011017
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
418
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