The English Eccentrics

The English Eccentrics (1947) by Edith Sitwell – Zephyr Books Edition
Now available from Crappy Old Books: because weird never goes out of print.

Step into a splendidly strange parade of aristocratic oddballs, deluded inventors, and wildly whimsical characters who once graced the drawing rooms and madhouses of England. In The English Eccentrics, Dame Edith Sitwell—herself no stranger to flamboyance—unleashes a gleeful, poetic chronicle of Britain’s most marvelously unhinged personalities.

From the woman who fed her guests invisible food to the nobleman who married a tree, this 1947 classic (in its charming Zephyr Books edition) is a loving, razor-sharp tribute to glorious British weirdness. With her trademark wit and lyrical flair, Sitwell celebrates the bizarre, the brilliant, and the downright bonkers.

Perfect for lovers of the peculiar, the historical, and the hilariously human.
Available now, in gloriously musty condition, from Crappy Old Books. Where eccentricity lives on—dust and all.

This is a paperback, but has a dust cover. The dustcover is in good order, but is strangely worn where the top white stripe goes round the spine, almost as though tthe white colour has corroded the paper. However, its sill in very good shape.

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