Return to Yesterday (Carcanet Lives & Letters)

Return to Yesterday, Ford Madox Ford's exhilarating memoir, covers the years from 1894 to the outbreak of World War I - his transition from privileged godson of the Pre-Raphaelites to the great Modern writer and editor he became. Here he evokes England at large, and London in particular, its literary community, the political world of anarchists, of his friend Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.