DIMINUTIVE DRAMAS
London: William Heinemann, 1929. Hardcover. Brown cloth with dustjacket. 183p. Dustjacket in acceptable condition with significant soiling and shelf wear. Otherwise this is a clean and tight book in very good condition. Item #141072
Maurice Baring OBE (27 April 1874 – 14 December 1945) was an English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent. During World War I, Baring served in the Intelligence Corps and Royal Air Force. Previously an agnostic, he converted to Roman Catholicism in 1909, "the only action in my life which I am quite certain I have never regretted." Speaking from personal experience, however, he once advised Belloc to "never, never, never talk theology or discuss the Church with those outside it. People simply do not understand what you are talking about and they merely (a) get angry and (b) come to the conclusion that one doesn't believe in the thing oneself and that one is simply doing it to annoy."
This book is a collection of short dramatic scenes that take us into various moments in history and classic literature.
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