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Synopsis
To celebrate its 50 years in print, we are publishing this classic and much loved work as an Audio Book. Gwen Raverat, the granddaughter of Charles Darwin, described this memoir of her late Victorian Cambridge childhood as a drawing of the world when I was young. The observations of the small incidents in her life and of her eccentric Darwin family, recorded here in her inimitably charming prose reveal an artist's careful eye. Vividly evoking a bygone era, it is a shrewd, touching and comic portrait of her childhood, her eccentric relations, and of Cambridge academic society. Recorded on 11 cassettes, Anne Harvey brings out the wit and charm of the author and captures the essence of this delightful cameo of a privileged childhood in the Victorian era.Book Details
Published
January 1, 1973
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pages
282
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780571035014