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Index
Cover
Also by William Feaver
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Author’s Note
Prologue: “Always wanted never to have anything known about me”
PART I: Berlin, London and Devon, 1922–39
1: “I love German poetry but I loathe the German language”
2: “Very much a slightly artistic place”
3: “My mother started worshipping it so I smashed it”
4: “To cut a terrific dash”
PART II: The Phoney War and the Real War, 1939–45
5: “A private language”
6: “Born naughty”
7: “I used to always put secrets in. I still do.”
8: “Slightly notorious”
9: “Slight Dreigroschenoper”
10: “A question of focus”
11: “Living in a dump and going out to somewhere palatial”
PART III: France, Greece, First Marriage, 1945–9
12: “French malevolence”
13: “The world of Ovid”
14: “Free spirits like me”
15: “Me with horns”
16: “Fed sweets by nuns on the coach to Galway”
PART IV: First Recognition, 1949–58
17: “My large room in Paddington!”
18: “My night’s entertainment”
19: “Being able to see under the carpet”
20: “True to me”
21: “Lady Dashwood, sorry to have kicked you”
22: “A marvellous chase feeling”
23: “My ardour in the long pursuit”
24: “Idyllic, in a slightly maddening way”
25: “Mad on heat and running round, pissing all the time”
PART V: At the Marlborough, 1958–68
26: “Do you think I’m made of wood?”
27: “Brilliant ones fizzled”
28: “Actually it’s all I can do”
29: “People being monogamous seems to me an extraordinary and imaginative situation”
30: “He was rather nice and repulsive”
31: “Awfully uneasy”
32: “The absolute cheek of making art”
33: “I can’t be pressed really”
34: “If work permits”
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Illustration Credits
Illustrations
A Note About the Author
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