Sir John Gielgud A Life in Letters

"Again and again, [Gielgud] does what one had hoped: he says in private the things he somehow managed to suppress in public. Yet, seldom if ever does one feel there is anything mean-spirited about Gielgud's opinions. It's simply that he is gloriously, appallingly, hilariously truthful about those who practiced an art he took with unerring seriousness....The Gielgud [the letters] reveal is curious, observant, gossipy, fastidious, fetishistic, snobbish, self-critical, sharp, generous, apologetic, affectionate, vulnerable, censorious and always utterly without pretension.Gielgud, John is the author of 'Sir John Gielgud A Life in Letters', published 2004 under ISBN 9781559707299 and ISBN 1559707291.