Like It Was.The Diaries of Malcolm Muggeridge

London England: Collins. Hardback. First Edition. Previous owners name to title page. Malcolm Muggeride has, in fact, kept diaries, not regularly but continuously, over much of his life. They cover his travels, his various jobs, his friendships and love affairs, as well as what he calls his power-voyeur role as a journalist - his personal and professional relationships with, as the Book of Common Orayer puts it, those set in authority over us, and the conclusions derived therefrom. In all there are something like a million words of diary material, from which John Bright-Holmes has skilfully put together in a judicious and representative selection. The portrait that emerges of post-war London - the raffish literary circles, the political world Macolm Muggeridge came to know so well, the clubs and salons he for a while frequented - is marvellously evocative, evidence of his capacity for getting the greatest possible fun out of the activities and behaviour he is denouncing. And through it all, underlying the epigrams, the fireworks, the malicious humour, runs a fierce humanity. Readers will delight in the diaries as entertainment; they will remember them as the testimony of a Christian passionately preoccupied with the state of Man. 560 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1981.