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Harold Acton


Born
in Florence, Italy
July 05, 1904

Died
February 27, 1994


Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton was a British writer, scholar and dilettante who is probably most famous for being believed, incorrectly, to have inspired the character of "Anthony Blanche" in Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited (1945). ...more

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Average rating: 3.8 · 686 ratings · 94 reviews · 55 distinct works • Similar authors
Nancy Mitford : A Biography
3.75 avg rating — 357 ratings — published 1975 — 17 editions
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Memoirs of an Aesthete
3.69 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1948 — 17 editions
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The Last Medici
4.25 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1973 — 26 editions
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Peonies and Ponies
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Villas Of Tuscany
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Prince Isidore
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“So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.”
― Harold Acton
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“Some people take no mental exercise apart from jumping to conclusions.”
― Harold Acton
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