Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1834-1903) was a Victorian writer who had clung, so to speak, to the edges of fame. He was born into the maddest of upper-class English families and survived one of the cruelest of childhoods to write monumental travel guides to the Continent and a six-volume autobiography, The Story of My Life. That autobiography is now extremely rare and growing rarer - since every day copies of it, even in libraries, crumble into dust. This is a one-volume condensation of this remarkable work, containing what the editors consider to be the highlights of Augustus Hare's harrowing tale, beginning with his birth, shortly following which his lackadaisical parents gave him to a relative, assuring her that if she wanted more children she should let them know, because they had others.

Peculiar People: The Story of My Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Anderson-Miller, Julia

Hare, Augustus

Arts & Literature

Academy Chicago Publishers

Walks in Rome (Perfect Library)

Literature & Fiction

Classics

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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In the Shadow of Dracula

Rymer, James Malcolm

Tolstoy, Aleksei

Crawford, Anne

Le Fanu, Sheridan

Cholmondeley, Mary

Polidori, John

Linton, Eliza Lynn

Stenbock, Count

Tieck, Johann Ludwig

Gautier, Theodore

Bradd, Mary Elizabeth

Humor & Satire

IDW Publishing

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