Maurice Baring: 27 books

Maurice Baring (27 April 1874 – 14 December 1945) was an English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent. During World War I Baring served in the Intelligence Corps and Royal Air Force. In this ebook:...

It was into the famous and powerful Baring family of merchant bankers that Maurice Baring was born in 1874, the seventh of eight children. A man of immense subtlety and style, Baring absorbed every drop of culture that his fortunate background showered upon him; in combination with his many natural...

Includes Aerial Warfare During World War I Illustrations Pack with 115 maps, plans, and photos. “Maurice Baring made an unlikely soldier but during the First World War, at the age of forty, he obtained a commission and became Private Secretary to Hugh Trenchard, Commander of the Royal Flying...

This vintage book contains Maurice Baring’s 1914 treatise, “An Outline Of Russian Literature”. Maurice Baring (1874 – 1945) was an English dramatist, novelist, translator, poet, and essayist. He also worked for the Intelligence Corps and Royal Air Force during World War I. This volume is highly...

Reserved and unworldly, young Miles Consterdine and his epiphanic trip to Paris is Maurice Baring’s first bead on this thread of a story based on impressions received by the author in Russia and Manchuria during wartime. From here Baring allows us to peek through windows opening onto tragic and comic episodes in the lives of noteworthy people in remarkable circumstances.

This early works is an intresting look at the subject. Contents include; The Origins, The New Age-Pushkin, Lermontov, The Age of Prose, The Epoch of Reform, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, and The Second Age of Poetry........Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before,...

This sophisticated and intricate novel, based on true events, takes place in the late nineteenth century and begins with Henry Clifford, a man of taste and worldly philosophy, whose simple determination to do as he likes and live as he wishes is threatened when his daughter falls in love with an unsuitable...

The Puppet Show of Memory written by Maurice Baring who was an English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent. This book was published in 1922. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally...

Anthony Kay, a blind man, meets a gathering of people and quickly becomes involved in their lives. One of them is novelist James Rudd, who decides to study and write about the characters around him. The story he ends up with is very different to the one Kay would have told …. Maurice Baring skillfully...

Passing By By Maurice Baring

Overlooked By Maurice Baring

The Blue Rose Fairy Book By Maurice Baring.  Published by DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY in 1911.  This scarce antiquarian book. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as blurred pictures. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature.

Baring’s homage to a decadent and carefree Edwardian age depicts a society as yet untainted by the traumas and complexities of twentieth-century living. With wit and subtlety a happy picture is drawn of family life, house parties in the country and a leisured existence clouded only by the rumblings...

A series of romances, missed chances, and disasters befall the lives of Joan Brendon and Alexander Luttrell in a real life game of snakes and ladders, as each falls for others who enter their lives at seemingly unpropitious moments. Tragic misunderstandings, old flames turning up on wedding days,...