Volume 49, Number 18 · November 21, 2002
Out of the Mists
By Larry McMurtry
THE DIARIES OF JAMES LEES-MILNE
Ancestral Voices
by James Lees-Milne
Scribner, 302 pp. (out of print)
Prophesying Peace
by James Lees-Milne
Scribner, 254 pp. (out of print)
Caves of Ice: Diaries, 1946 & '47
by James Lees-Milne
London: Chatto and Windus/ Hogarth Press, 276 pp. (out of print)
Midway on the Waves
by James Lees-Milne
Faber and Faber, 248 pp.(out of print)
A Mingled Measure: Diaries, 1953–1972
by James Lees-Milne
London: John Murray, 325 pp., $45.00; $22.95 (paper) (distributed in the US by Trafalgar Square)
Ancient as the Hills: Diaries, 1973–1974
by James Lees-Milne
London: John Murray, 228 pp., $22.95 (paper) (distributed in the US by Trafalgar Square)
Through Wood and Dale: Diaries, 1975–1978
by James Lees-Milne
London: John Murray, 325 pp., $45.00; $24.95 (paper) (distributed in the US by Trafalgar Square)
Deep Romantic Chasm: Diaries, 1979–1981
by James Lees-Milne
London: John Murray, 276 pp., $40.00 (distributed in the US by Trafalgar Square)
Holy Dread: Diaries, 1982–1984
by James Lees-Milne
London: John Murray, 240 pp., $45.00 (distributed in the US by Trafalgar Square)
'Rather stern, melancholy, youngish-oldish James Lees-Milne, secretary of society for the preservation of country seats' is how Bernard Berenson described our diarist, when the latter came to lunch and tea at Berenson's famous Villa I Tatti, in October of 1947.
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