ACTON, Harold

[227] pp.

Hamish Hamilton

1972

8″ x 5 1/2″

Jacket design by Craig Dodd

Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton CBE (5 July 1904 27 February 1994) was a British writer, scholar, and aesthete who was a prominent member of the Bright Young Things. He wrote fiction, biography, history and autobiography. During his stay in China, he studied the Chinese language, traditional drama, and poetry, some of which he translated.