Description:In this, the first of
a two-volume autobiography, the late Kingsley Martin [1897-1969]
describes his life prior to his years as editor of the "New Statesman."
In it he tells of his childhood as the son of a non-conformist minister,
of his hectic life as an ambulance orderly in France, of his days at
Cambridge and of the beginning years of his career. Woven into his story
are penetrating insights into the lives of such personal acquaintances
as George Bernard Shaw, the Webbs, Maynard Keynes, Leonard and Virginia
Woolf, Lowes Dickinson, Beveridge, Churchill, Harold Laski, C.P. Scott
and Malcolm Muggeridge.