Pull Devil, Pull Baker by Stella Benson - 9781913861605

Name: Pull Devil, Pull Baker by Stella Benson - 9781913861605
Brand: UEA Publishing Project

UEA Publishing Project

Pull Devil, Pull BakerAuthor(s): Stella Benson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: UEA Publishing Project, United Kingdom\nImprint: UEA Publishing Project\nISBN-13: 9781913861605, 978-1913861605\nSynopsis\nPull Devil, Pull Baker is one of the oddest autobiographies ever written.\nThe novelist Stella Benson first encountered an eccentric Russian\nnobleman, Count Nicolas de Toulouse Lautrec De Savine in the paupers\nward of a Hong Kong hospital. Striking up a friendship, she found\nherself fascinated by the Counts garrulous memoirs, written in a unique\nblend of English, French, and Russian.\nThe Counts adventures included a stint as a Russian cavalry officer,\ngold mining in California, a failed attempt to establish himself as Czar of\nBulgaria, get-rich-quick schemes, and countless romantic\nentanglements. Were these all inventions of his fervid mind, like a\nlatter-day Baron Munchausen? Were they true? Could they be both?\nIn Pull Devil, Pull Baker, Stella Benson not only collected the C.