Book: Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 240 pages | ISBN 9780140432176 | 29 Jun 2006 | Penguin Classic | Adult
The author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire sheds light on some of his more renowned contemporaries and on eighteenth-century life in general in these fascinating memoirs.
‘Intelligent, entertaining, dignified and often amusing . . . one of the minor masterpieces of its century’ – E. M. Forster
