Nicolson, Harold 1886-1968

Overview

Works:	511 works in 2,708 publications in 8 languages and 41,191 library holdings
Genres:	Biography Records and correspondence Diaries Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc History Treaties Personal narratives‡vBritish Sources Autobiographies
Roles:	Author, Author of introduction, Editor, Creator, Moderator, Speaker, Composer, Compiler, Correspondent
Classifications:	PR6027.I4, B

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Harold Nicolson

Portrait of a marriage by Nigel Nicolson( Book )
Diaries and letters by Harold Nicolson( Book )
Harold Nicolson : a biography by James Lees-Milne( Book )
Diaries and letters, 1930-1964 by Harold Nicolson( Book )
Harold Nicolson by Norman Rose( Book )

Journey to Java by Harold Nicolson( Book )
The war years, 1939-1945 by Harold Nicolson( Book )
Harold Nicolson diaries and letters 1907-1964 by Harold Nicolson( Book )
Sir Harold Nicolson and international relations : the practitioner as theorist by Derek Drinkwater( Book )
The later years, 1945-1962 by Harold Nicolson( Book )
The Harold Nicolson diaries by Harold Nicolson( Book )
Long life by Nigel Nicolson( Book )
Portrait of a marriage by Nigel Nicolson( Recording )
Diaries and letters 1907-1964 by Harold Nicolson( Book )
Retrato de un matrimonio by Nigel Nicolson( Book )
Some people by Harold Nicolson( Book )
Portrait of a marriage by Cathryn Harrison( Visual )
Peacemaking, 1919 by Harold Nicolson( Book )
Diaries and Letters by Harold Nicolson( Book )

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Most widely held works by Harold Nicolson

The Congress of Vienna, a study in allied unity: 1812-1822 by Harold Nicolson( Book )

130 editions published between 1946 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,608 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Peacemaking, 1919 by Harold Nicolson( Book )

111 editions published between 1933 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,009 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Diplomacy by Harold Nicolson( Book )

150 editions published between 1939 and 1994 in 6 languages and held by 2,004 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Tennyson, aspects of his life, character and poetry by Harold Nicolson( Book )

89 editions published between 1749 and 1973 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,529 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The age of reason : the eighteenth century by Harold Nicolson( Book )

12 editions published between 1960 and 1961 in English and held by 1,227 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

King George the Fifth; his life and reign by Harold Nicolson( Book )

48 editions published between 1952 and 1984 in English and held by 1,171 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Byron, the last journey, April 1823-April 1824 by Harold Nicolson( Book )

62 editions published between 1924 and 1999 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,087 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Some people by Harold Nicolson( Book )

76 editions published between 1926 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 1,034 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

On the face of it, bracketing Harold Nicolson and Vladimir Nabokov seems unexpected but the latter paid a remarkable tribute to Some People. When speaking to Harold Nicolson's son, Nigel, he confessed that all his life he had been fighting against the influence of Some People.' The style of that book is like a drug', he said. The critic and biographer, Stacy Schiff, has also admitted 'Some People has exerted more influence than I care to admit. I would reread it any day of the week.' Ever since first publication in 1927 it has been attracting this sort of praise. It is an unusual book comprising nine chapters each one being a sort of character sketch: Miss Plimsoll; J.D. Marstock; Lambert Orme; The Marquis de Chaumont; Jeanne de Henaut; Titty; Professor Malone; Arketall; Miriam Codd. The author himself writes, a little disingenuously, 'Many of the following sketches are purely imaginary. Such truths as they may contain are only half-truths.' In fact, it would be difficult to point to one, other than Miriam Codd, that was 'purely imaginary', some were composite portraits, others skilful amalgams of divers traits from a variety of different people, and others much more overtly drawn from one real-life figure, for example Lambert Orme clearly represents Ronald Firbank, and Arketall Lord Curzon's bibulous valet. There is nothing else quite like Some People and in its own playful way is beyond category. To be tedious for a moment, we have to call it fiction but are then immediately thrown by Virginia Woolf's deft summary, 'He lies in wait for his own absurdities as artfully as theirs. Indeed by the end of the book we realize that the figure which has been most completely and most subtly displayed is that of the author ... It is thus, he would seem to say, in the mirrors of our friends that we chiefly live.' Fiction? Biography? Autobiography? - the category doesn't matter, the result is spellbinding however you choose to read it

The development of English biography by Harold Nicolson( Book )

46 editions published between 1927 and 1968 in English and held by 985 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Swinburne by Harold Nicolson( Book )

29 editions published between 1926 and 1969 in English and Undetermined and held by 955 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Deals most fully with the youth of the poet and his famous early volumes: Poems and Ballads, Atlanta in Calydon, and Songs before sunrise

The evolution of diplomatic method, being the Chichele Lectures delivered at the University of Oxford in November 1953 by Harold Nicolson( Book )

52 editions published between 1950 and 1998 in English and Undetermined and held by 954 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Dwight Morrow by Harold Nicolson( Book )

28 editions published between 1935 and 1975 in 3 languages and held by 953 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The English sense of humour, and other essays by Harold Nicolson( Book )

18 editions published between 1946 and 1987 in English and Undetermined and held by 944 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Curzon: the last phase, 1919-1925, a study in post-war diplomacy by Harold Nicolson( Book )

53 editions published between 1934 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 890 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Om den engelske politiker George Nathaniel Curzon (1859-1925)

Good behaviour; being a study of certain types of civility by Harold Nicolson( Book )

45 editions published between 1955 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 876 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Diplomat by Charles W Thayer( Book )

6 editions published between 1959 and 1960 in English and Undetermined and held by 847 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Vita and Harold : the letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson by V Sackville-West( Book )

17 editions published between 1992 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 828 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, distinguished diplomat, politician, and prolific author, enjoyed one of the most remarkable marriages of the century. Chronicled in the best-selling Portrait of a Marriage by their younger son Nigel Nicolson, the relationship between Vita and Harold was unusual and profoundly happy. Charged with remarkable intensity and deep mutual respect, the correspondence between Vita and Harold, selected by Nigel Nicolson from more than ten thousand surviving letters, uncovers the nature of his parents' marriage against the background of fifty tumultuous years that included both world wars."--Book jacket

Kings, courts and monarchy by Harold Nicolson( Book )

5 editions published in 1962 in English and held by 826 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Illustrated history of royalty and kingship from its origins to contemporary royal courts

Sainte-Beuve by Harold Nicolson( Book )

20 editions published between 1956 and 1978 in 3 languages and held by 816 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Benjamin Constant by Harold Nicolson( Book )

26 editions published between 1949 and 1985 in English and Undetermined and held by 637 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Mme de Charrière (1785-1787), l'Angleterre et Colombier (1787), Brunswick (1788-1791), Minna et Charlotte (1792-1794), Mme de Staël (1766-1794), le Directoire (1794-1799), le Tribunat (1800-1802), Julie Talma, Anna Lindsay, l'Allemagne (1801-1804), "Adolphe" (1807), le mariage avec Charlotte, l'entrevue de Sécheron, l'Allemagne (1808-1811), Madame Récamier (1814-1815), les Cent-Jours (1815), la Restauration (1816-1830)

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