A Distant Prospect - Paperback

by Lord Berners (Author)

A poignant and witty account of Eton, early adolescence and a boy's awakening to the spell of Wagner, ballet and musical composition.

Readers of P. G. Wodehouse and E.F. Benson and fans of Monty Python will revel in Berners's youthful entanglements.

• "Funny, unsparing, sharp yet fundamentally good-spirited." -The New York Times

Author Biography

Lord Berners (1883-1950) was a composer, novelist, painter, memoirist, conspicuous aesthete and the real life character on whom Nancy Mitford based Lord Merlin in The Pursuit of Love. This versatile peer has been called the English Satie. His ballets have been choreographed by Balanchine and Ashton.