Back in print for the first time since Muggeridge's
death in 1990, both published volumes of his acclaimed
biography-The Green Stick and The Infernal Grove, plus
the previously unpublished start to an unfinished third
volume entitled The Right Eye-all brought together in
one unabridged volume. "There is not a flat page in this
mingling of anecdote, comment and self-criticism. . . .
An international throng of writers, politicians,
soldiers, spies, traitors and eccentrics jostles in
these page from Attlee to Wodehouse via Burgess and
Philby, Churchill, de Gaulle, Gide, Chanel, Montgomery,
Evelyn Waugh." -The Daily Telegraph "Much of it . . . is
very funny indeed; his description of being inducted
into the mysteries of invisible writing when he joined
the M16, for instance, is one of the great comic
set-pieces that are artfully placed throughout the book.
. . . Apart from these, the wit sparkles on almost every
page." -The Observer ". . . this is one of the most
delightful and entertaining memoirs of our age." -The
Washington Post "A sure hand pushes the pen; a splendid
mind guides the hand. There are paragraphs in this book
that . . . are models of the best of clarity, grace and
beauty in the English language." -The Dallas Morning
News Born in 1903, Malcolm Muggeridge started his career
as a university lecturer in Cairo before taking up
journalism. As a journalist he worked around the world
on the Guardian, Calcutta Statesman, the Evening
Standard and the Daily Telegraph. In 1953 became editor
of Punch, where he remained for four years. In later
years he became best known as a broadcaster both on
television and radio for the BBC. His other books
include Jesus Rediscovered, Christ and the Media, and A
Third Testament.
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