These fascinating, never-before-published early Diaries of Count Harry Kessler--patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat--present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle poque Europe, a glittering world poised to be changed irrevocably by the Great War.
This refined world gives way to vivid descriptions of the ho.
Kessler\'s immersion in the new art and literature of Paris, London, and Berlin unfolds in the first part of the diaries.
These fascinating, never-before-published early Diaries of Count Harry Kessler--patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat--present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle poque Europe, a glittering world poised to be changed irrevocably by the Great War
