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"The Hundred Years" 1937 GUEDALLA, Philip

GUEDALLA, Philip

[400] pp.

Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.

1937

9 1/4" x 6 1/2"

Jacket design by Rex Whistler

The English barrister's "rounded history of the most important century of modern times," covering the period from 1837-1937.

Philip Guedalla (12 March 1889 – 16 December 1944) was an English barrister, and a popular historical and travel writer and biographer. His wit and epigrams are well-known, one example being "Even reviewers read a Preface". He also was the originator of a now-common theory on Henry James, writing that "The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender".


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