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The memoirs have been called "denunciations of the changing times", and despite the claim to veracity in the introductory note are "highly subjective opinions on the past", with unhistorical episodes that "valorise the past at the expense of the post-war present".
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In an introductory note, the author states that the book contains recollections of true occasions and incidents within a fictional setting. He emphasises that "the memories themselves are strictly true and that I have exaggerated nothing."
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The book begins with a story in the style of previous 'Berry' tales before reverting to the reminiscing style of
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According to Yates's biographer, AJ Smithers, "The book Is a patch-work, including short visits to the
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is the second volume of fictionalised memoirs of the English author
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Dornford Yates
Ward Lock & Co
As Berry and I Were Saying
Dornford Yates
As Berry and I Were Saying
As Berry and I Were Saying
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"British Library Item details"
Ward Lock & Co
Smithers 1982
Novelists Against Social Change
ISBN
978-1137457714
Hodder and Stoughton
ISBN
0 340 27547 2
B-Berry and I Look Back (Berry #10)
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Works by Cecil William Mercer
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Books by Dornford Yates
The Brother of Daphne
The Courts of Idleness

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