Diaries and Letters Vol. 1 1930 1939

<p>Harold Nicolson''s Diaries and Letters, spanning the years 1930 to 1962, were first published in three volumes, and it is in this format Faber Finds is reissuing them. The one-volume abridgement available in paperback from Phoenix is practical, and in itself a superb piece of compression, but such a great work, one of the major diaries of the twentieth-century, deserves also to be available in its full original incarnation.<br><br>''Not only a brilliant picture of English society in the 1930''s, but a touching self-portrait of a highly intelligent and civilized man driven by conscience and curiosity to enter politics'' Sir Kenneth Clark<br><br>''Enthralling reading. . . . A sharp, concise and highly intelligent account of his times is provided, at once amusing and serviceable to the historian.'' Malcolm Muggeridge, <i>Observer <br></i><br>''One is hardly able to put it down for meals. . . It is very artfully edited for, besides the diary proper, there are many letters to Sir Harold''s wife, Vita Sackville-West, and not a few from her to him. But this remains solidly and brillinatly Sir Harold''s own book.'' Cyril Connolly, <i>Sunday Times</i></p>