The frank and sensitive story of an extravagant English family, told by a talented son. A magnificient evocation of a vanished era and a vivid portrait gallery of the eminent and eccentric. It is the first volume in Sir Osbert Sitwell's five volume autobiography, a saga which the London Sunday Times called "one of the wonder-works of the twentieth century" and awarded its first gold medal for literature. Includes an Index.

(Key Words: Biography, Sir Osbert Sitwell, English Literature).