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Can I read Hermit of Peking : the hidden life of Sir Edmund Backhouse on EtoBox?
Hermit of Peking : the hidden life of Sir Edmund Backhouse by Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Hermit of Peking : the hidden life of Sir Edmund Backhouse about?
The trail of discovery began when Hugh Trevor-Roper received the memoirs of Sir Edmund Backhouse, the celebrated Chinese scholar, in somewhat unusual circumstances. They described a very different person from the one who had apparently lived such a respectable life until his death in 1944. In them, Backhouse claimed that he had been intimate with characters as diverse as Verlaine and Lord Roseberry, and that his many lovers (of both sexes) had included the Dowager Empress of China. It gradually became clear that the detailed, plausible and obscene memoirs were a work of fantasy – yet a fantasy interwoven with detailed fact. Intruigued, Hugh Trevor-Roper set out to discover as much as he could about Sir Edmund Backhouse, and unearthed the story of one the most outrageous confidence tricksters of the century.
Who reads Hermit of Peking : the hidden life of Sir Edmund Backhouse?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
- Publisher
- Eland Publishing Ltd
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781780601953
- Category
- nonfiction
- Rating
- 3.91 / 5 (85 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14