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  • The Mainsprings of Russia

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    de Maurice Baring ...
    Maurice Baring writes with a personal, candid purpose: to be read sympathetically by anyone curious about Russia, especially by English readers and first-time visitors who want plain answers about Russian people, government, and national character. He acknowledges the book's necessary brevity, omits commerce, industry, the army, the navy, and the Jewish question, and offers instead a clear ... Leer más

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  • Overlooked

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    Maurice Baring's Overlooked unfolds as a witty, psychologically alert comedy of manners shaped by memory, misreading, and the elusive truth of other people. In the spa town of Haréville, the blind narrator Anthony Kay turns observation into art, drawing novelist James Rudd into a social experiment among Princess Kouragine, Mrs. Lennox, and the enigmatic Jean Brandon. What begins as lively holiday ... Leer más

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  • Passing By

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    Maurice Baring's Passing By unfolds through the dry, observant diary of Godfrey Mellor and the brisk, witty letters of Guy Cunninghame, drawing readers into a world of London dinners, concerts, and cultivated talk. From the Housmans' house-warming to the elegant circles of bankers, diplomats, artists, and critics, the novel turns social ritual into a study of character, revealing how music, art, ... Leer más

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  • Lost Diaries

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    Maurice Baring's Lost Diaries turns history, legend, and literature into a string of private confessions, each voice sharp with wit, irony, and unexpected intimacy. From schoolboy squabbles and imperial embarrassment to medieval war reporting and tragic romance, these imagined diary entries make famous figures feel comic, human, and strangely immediate. The collection opens in the noisy, rule ... Leer más

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  • Round the World in Any Number of Days

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    Maurice Baring's Round the World in Any Number of Days is a witty, self-aware travel narrative that turns an ordinary voyage into a comic meditation on memory, class, and the art of seeing. Sailing from England to New Zealand aboard an Orient liner, the narrator meets dock strikes, inept crew, awkward bridge play, and a lively assortment of passengers while offering sharp, playful observations on ... Leer más

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  • Russian Essays and Stories

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    Maurice Baring's Russian Essays and Stories is a witty, personal, and deliberately unpolitical portrait of Russia, built from travel scenes, cultural sketches, literary criticism, and fiction. In his playful introduction, Baring rejects false modesty and partisan simplification alike, insisting that Russia should be seen through sympathy, observation, and a clear eye for human character rather ... Leer más

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  • The Puppet Show of Memory

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    Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels begins as a dazzling voyage of shipwrecks, strange lands, and savage comic reversals, but quickly reveals itself as one of literature's fiercest satires. Through Gulliver's extraordinary travels, Swift mocks politics, science, government, and human vanity, turning each adventure into a sharp critique of civilization itself. In Lilliput, a shipwrecked Gulliver ... Leer más

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  • Landmarks in Russian Literature

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    Maurice Baring's Landmarks in Russian Literature is a vivid, sympathetic guide to the spirit behind Russia's greatest writers. Moving from national character to literary achievement, it asks why Russian books seem at once harsh and tender, fatalistic and deeply humane, and why their power lies so often in contradiction. Baring opens by arguing that Russian literature can only be understood through ... Leer más

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  • The Blue Rose Fairy Book

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    The Blue Rose Fairy Book gathers Maurice Baring's richly atmospheric fairy tales into a world of music, wonder, and transformation. Across orchards, moonlit villages, royal courts, and hidden kingdoms, humble wanderers, gifted artists, princesses, and dragons are tested by quests that reveal hidden truths and the power of enchantment. The collection's lyrical, old-world charm is at its strongest ... Leer más

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  • A Year in Russia

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    Maurice Baring's A Year in Russia is a vivid, firsthand record of a country under strain, written not as a formal history but as a series of candid observations gathered during a turbulent year. From the opening pages, Baring insists on honest witnessing over sensationalism, offering "raw facts" for readers who know little of Russia and want to understand its people, politics, and daily life ... Leer más

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  • Diminutive Dramas

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    Maurice Baring's Diminutive Dramas is a sparkling collection of miniature plays that turns history, myth, and politics into quicksilver comedy and sudden menace. Kings, lovers, daughters, and emperors speak in polished wit, only for vanity, duty, and social convention to expose the absurdity beneath their grand roles. A quarrel between Henry VIII and Catherine Parr over a boiled egg and Alexander ... Leer más

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  • Orpheus in Mayfair

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    Maurice Baring's Orpheus in Mayfair opens with Heraclius Themistocles Margaritis, a gifted but impoverished Greek singer and composer in London, struggling to support his Italian wife and children while dreaming of restoring the forgotten music of Greece. A rare invitation to perform in a fashionable house promises long-awaited success, but a sudden illness in the family sends him into despair and ... Leer más

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