Murray's Daily Companion
A Literary and Historical Almanac of Readings and Anniversaries from Diaries, Letters, Eyewitness Accounts, Some Speeches and a Few Sermons Written on Each Day of the Year Over Many Centuries
Roger Hudson(Author)
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Published on 10. October 2005
Book
Hardback
448 pages
978-0-7195-6744-5 (ISBN)
Description
This rich collection is drawn from nine centuries of daily writings. Each day of the year has its page, revealing what some of our greatest writers have been doing, thinking or writing on that particular day, as well as some of the anniversaries of curious and arresting events connected with it - the day Don Juan lost his virginity, a man-powered plane crossed the Channel, the Battle of Hastings was fought. Its vast range of colourful characters and contributors includes kings and queens, presidents, loiterers in the corridors of power, avid diarists and compulsive correspondents. The Murray authors include Jane Austen, Lord Byron, Charles Darwin and Freya Stark; the names that dance down these pages capture the very spirit of a succession of ages. Filled with old friends and new acquaintances, like the best sort of party, this book catches them at their wittiest, wisest, most indiscreet and most compelling.
Reviews / Votes
'This journal is a reilef. When I am tirod... as I generally am - out comes this, and down goes everything.' Lord Byron, 6 December 1813. '... this diary being a kindly blank-faced old confidante' Virginia Woolf, 8 April 1921. 'I have given you, my dear, a little history in shorthand' William Cowper, 16 January 1786.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Murray Press
Dimensions
Height: 184 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
660 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7195-6744-5 (9780719567445)
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Person
Roger Hudson was educated at Cambridge and worked as an editor at John Murray for many years. He now works freelance for a range of publishers and has compiled a number of books for the Folio Society. He co-owns the Haggerston Press.