Word: osbert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LOST HIMSELF-Osbert Sitwell-Coward-McCann...
This is a mystery story in the modern, Osbert-Sitwellian manner: besides the mystery it contains much acute and polished conversation on morals, literature, life; a complete satirical sketch of tourists shut up together on a liner; criticisms of art and nature; and what might almost serve as a guidebook to Granada, Spanish setting of the famed Moorish Alhambra...
...Author. Osbert Sitwell, poet, novelist, playwright, one of the three enfants terribles of present-day English literature (the other two: Brother Sacheverell, Sister Edith) is the eldest son of a baronet, was educated at Eton, served in the War with the Grenadier Guards. Like his brother, his sister, he is tall, pale, has thin lips, restless hands; unassailable socially, he delights in flouting convention. The English Who's Who lists his recreations as: "Regretting the Bourbons, Repartee, and Tu Quoque." Once an inveterate golfer and left handed cricketer, he now, according to his own statement has "abandant all other...