Peculiar People: The Story of My Life

"Anyone requiring the perfect bedside book need look no further . . . a now-rediscovered masterpiece of character-painting, anecdote and understated wit." —Smithsonian Magazine

Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1834–1903) was a Victorian writer who had clung, so to speak, to the edges of fame. He was born into the maddest of upper-class English families and survived one of the cruelest of childhoods to write monumental travel guides to the Continent and a six-volume autobiography, The Story of My...