Ebook: Return to Yesterday

Cover; Title Page; Contents; INTRODUCTION; RETURN TO YESTERDAY; To DR MICHAEL AND MRS EILEEN HALL LAKE; PART I: LETTERS AND LANDSCAPES; CHAPTER I: COMPOSTELLA AMERICANA; CHAPTER II: PERSONAE ; CHAPTER III: THE OUTER WORLD; CHAPTER IV: RE-AGENTS; PART II: THE LEFT; CHAPTER I: IN DARKEST LONDON; CHAPTER II: FARTHEST LEFT; CHAPTER III: THE OUTSIDE; PART III: THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY; CHAPTER I: CABBAGES AND QUEENS; CHAPTER II: PURE LETTERS; CHAPTER III: WORKING WITH CONRAD; CHAPTER IV: RYE ROAD; PART IV: THE BL -- DY WORLD; CHAPTER I: COMPANIES AND KINGS.;Ford Madox Ford can never quite keep out of it. The more self-effacing he seems, the more his the writing becomes: scenes of preternatural clarity. 'Memory doesn't work like that, ' said one critic. Well, Ford's does. 'Truth to the impression' was his aim. How it seemed, how memory took it in, is more alive than how it 'actually' was, whatever that means. Memory is for Ford as for Wordsworth re-creation. His memoirs have the authority of fiction because they are half way between fiction and fact. Return to Yesterday (1931), his most fascinating memoir, follows on Ancient Lights and covers the y.