25 (Registro nro. 117219)
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 26005923 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PR |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Nichols, Beverley, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1898-1983 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | 25 |
| 246 1# - VARYING FORM OF TITLE | |
| Title proper/short title | Twenty-five |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2025-07-13 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Alan, Hannah Wilson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "25: Being a young man's candid recollections of his elders and betters" by Beverley Nichols is a memoir written in the early 20th century. It offers spry, often irreverent portraits of prominent figures the author met while young—statesmen, poets, critics, society leaders—told with wit, candor, and an eye for revealing detail. Expect lively travel impressions, literary and political sketches, and a self-aware narrator measuring his youthful enthusiasms against the reputations of his “elders and betters.” The opening of this memoir follows a 19-year-old Nichols on a British Universities Mission to the United States near the end of the war, mixing shipboard vignettes and first impressions of New York with brisk encounters: a precise, weary Woodrow Wilson; a jovial, crowd-pleasing Taft; and the principled Elihu Root. He contrasts Harvard’s wealth with Britain’s austerity, witnesses premature Chicago Armistice celebrations, and notes the color of American media and millionaires—highlighted by J. P. Morgan handing him a strand of Keats’s hair and a Detroit paper inventing an interview. Back at Oxford, he sketches a cluster of literary greats: Masefield’s generosity and humility, Bridges’s leonine severity, Yeats’s dreamy otherworldliness, and the Sitwells’ sharp modernist mischief. He then captures G. K. Chesterton’s paradox-strewn stance on marriage, the Asquiths’ contrasting temperaments at a Liberal rally, Winston Churchill’s disciplined advice on writing and post-speech anxieties, and Horatio Bottomley’s raw, irresistible oratory. The section closes as he begins an exuberant, waspish portrait of Mrs. Patrick Campbell. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | New York: George H. Doran Company, 1926 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Nichols, Beverley, 1898-1983 -- Childhood and youth |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/25beingyoungmans00nich">https://archive.org/details/25beingyoungmans00nich</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76494">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76494</a> |
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