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Hermit Of Peking: The Hidden Life Of Sir Edmund Backhouse

Hugh R. Trevor-Roper

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Hermit of Peking is one of the most remarkable pieces of literary detection of recent years.

It all began when Hugh Trevor-Roper acquired the voluminous memoirs of Sir Edmund Backhouse, uo till then known only as a distinguished Chinese scholar who had lived quietly until his death in 1944.

The memoirs depicted a very different person - a man who said that he had been 'intimate' with many nobles, from Lord Rosebery to Verlaine, and whose lovers had included the Dowager Empress of China. In fact, they were so fantastic that the author felt obliged to discover all he could about the man who had written them: and what he reveals here is the story of one of the most outrageous forgers, confidence tricksters and eccentrics of the century.

Language: English

Pages: 391

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd.

Release: April 27, 1978

ISBN: 014004776X

ISBN 13: 9780140047769

Hermit Of Peking: The Hidden Life Of Sir Edmund Backhouse

Hugh R. Trevor-Roper

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Hermit of Peking is one of the most remarkable pieces of literary detection of recent years.

It all began when Hugh Trevor-Roper acquired the voluminous memoirs of Sir Edmund Backhouse, uo till then known only as a distinguished Chinese scholar who had lived quietly until his death in 1944.

The memoirs depicted a very different person - a man who said that he had been 'intimate' with many nobles, from Lord Rosebery to Verlaine, and whose lovers had included the Dowager Empress of China. In fact, they were so fantastic that the author felt obliged to discover all he could about the man who had written them: and what he reveals here is the story of one of the most outrageous forgers, confidence tricksters and eccentrics of the century.

Language: English

Pages: 391

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd.

Release: April 27, 1978

ISBN: 014004776X

ISBN 13: 9780140047769

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