Roland Chambers. The Last Englishman.
The Last Englishman by Roland Chambers
The Last Englishman by Roland Chambers
A biography of Arthur Ransome is every bit as contradictory as its subject, says Adam Mars-Jones
In 1919, Sir Cavendish-Bentinck summed up Arthur Ransome's character for the benefit of the Foreign Office: "He is really rather a coward and is trying to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds." It's hard to dispute that verdict. Ransome had turned himself from jobbing literary journalist into a self-proclaimed expert on the Russian Revolution, but his great gift was for ignoring contradictions, his own most of all.
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