Twenty-Five - An Autobiography

Beverley Nichols

• Publisher: Pomona Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781406794472, 9781443734790
• eBook ISBN: 9781447487074
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

This book contains the first of six autobiographies written by the prolific writer Beverly Nichols. As the title suggests, Nichols wrote this work at the venturesome age of twenty-five, and it is therefore a refreshing and unusual read, and highly recommended for the inclusion on the bookshelf of any fan of his work.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Dedication
• Foreword
• I. In which some English Gentlemen set out on a Strange Journey
• II. Presidents – Lean and Fat
• III. Containing a Fruitless Search for American Vulgarity
• IV. John Masefield, Robert Bridges, W. B. Yeats
• V. In which Mr. G. K. Chesterton reveals his Fears and his Hopes
• VI. In which Mrs. Asquith behaves with characteristic Energy
• VII. In which Mr. Winston Churchill loses his Temper, and Mr. Horatio Bottomley wins his Debate
• VIII. Being an Impression of Two Ladies of Genius
• IX. In which We Meet a Ghost
• X. In which I Journey to Greece
• XI. Concerning the Confidences of a Queen
• XII. Strange Tales of a Monarch and a Novelist
• XIII. From the Regal to the Ridiculous
• XIV. In which Sir William Orpen and Mrs. Elinor Glyn reveal their Souls
• XV. Concerning Two Artists in a Different Sphere
• XVI. Hanged by the Neck
• XVII. Two Plain and One Coloured
• XVIII. A Lamb in Wolf’s Clothing
• XIX. Two Big Men and One Medium
• XX. A Memory – And Some Songs
• XXI. Hicks – Hicks – and Nothing but Hicks
• XXII. Showing how a Genius worshipped Devils in the Mountains
• XXIII. A Defence of Dramatic Critics
• XXIV. In which William Somerset Maugham makes a Delicate Grimace
• XXV. In which Michael Arlen Disdains Pink Chestnuts
• XXVI. Containing the Hideous Truth about Noel Coward
• XXVII. In which I allow Myself to be entirely Sentimental