A Quiet Evening :The Travels of Norman Lewis

3.97 ( 26,994 Ratings by Goodreads)
A Quiet Evening

A Quiet Evening :The Travels of Norman Lewis

(Author)
3.97 (26,994 Ratings by Goodreads)
paperback
Published: 21 May, 2026
Standard worldwide delivery by Mon, June 22 - Thu, June 25
Order within 0
Condition: NEW
$23.78
RRP $26.85
You save $3.06 (11%)
Price includes shipping
Available 10 in stock
- +
Add to basket Wishlist This
FREE Returns within 30 days
More Details

Popular Books by Norman Lewis

View All Books by Norman Lewis
Naples '44
Naples '44
Norman Lewis
$19.97 $20.13
New
Add to basket
Word Power Made Easy
Word Power Made Easy
Norman Lewis
$12.26
New
Add to basket
The Honoured Society
The Honoured Society
Norman Lewis
$20.20
New
Add to basket
A Quiet Evening
A Quiet Evening
Norman Lewis
$26.91 $33.57
New
Add to basket
Empire of the East
Empire of the East
Norman Lewis
$18.82
New
Add to basket
In Sicily
In Sicily
Norman Lewis
$14.91 $17.45
New
Add to basket
Voices of the Old Sea
Voices of the Old Sea
Norman Lewis
$8.31 $20.13
Used
Add to basket
The Tomb in Seville
The Tomb in Seville
Norman Lewis
$16.26 $20.13
New
Add to basket
A Goddess in the Stones
A Goddess in the Stones
Norman Lewis
$15.85 $17.45
New
Add to basket
Golden Earth
Golden Earth
Norman Lewis
$18.82
New
Add to basket

Description

Collected here, from a period of nearly five decades, are thirty-six of Norman Lewis s best articles. In each, his writing crackles with poker-faced wit and stylistic brilliance. As a witness to his times the good, the bad and the absurd he was unmatched, and his instinct for important events, and moments, was infallible. His range here includes Ibizan fishermen, an interview with Castro s executioner, the genocide of the South American Indian tribes, a paean to Seville and his meeting with a tragic Ernest Hemingway. That meeting was a shattering experience, Norman wrote to Ian Fleming who had commissioned him, of the kind likely to sabotage ambition. Fortunately it didn t, and the articles assembled between these covers are compulsive, hilarious, tender and beautifully written, at times deeply upsetting, and always unforgettable.
See more

More Details

Type Book
ISBN13 9781780601557
ISBN10 1780601557
Number Of Pages 504
Item Weight 1000 g
Publisher / Reseller Eland Publishing Ltd
Format paperback
See More +

Media Reviews

Lewis is such a fine and amusing writer and also such an intensely moral and humane one that he can make even the most horrible situations both bearable and instructive. - William Dalrymple,

Show more

Author's Bio

Norman Lewis was born in 1908. His early childhood was spent partly with his Welsh spiritualist parents in suburbs on the edge of north London, and partly with half-mad aunts in Wales. Forgoing a place at university for lack of funds, he used the income from wedding photography and petty trading including selling lost umbrellas and cameras to finance travels in Spain, Italy, Morocco and the Balkans, as well as racing Bugattis. A visit to southern Arabia and the Yemen on behalf of the intelligence services, including a long voyage by dhow, greatly bolstered his passion for the exotic. During the Second World War he spent three years in the Intelligence Corps in North Africa and Southern Italy. His diaries from that time later became his masterpiece, Naples 44. Before the war, he had published two books, but his literary career only took off with the publication of A Dragon Apparent in 1951. Over the following decades he wrote thirty books, half of them novels. In the year of its publication, an omnibus translation of his novels into Russian outsold Tolstoy. After travelling to Brazil in 1968 to research the ethnocide of the indigenous tribes, his later writing also included passionate campaigning on their behalf. Even into his nineties Lewis was enthusiastically travelling to off-beat parts of the world. He died in 2003.

Show more