Maurice Baring

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books
  • First Book:
    May 2001
  • Latest Book:
    September 2019
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Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • 'C'

    Baring’s homage to a decadent and carefree Edwardian age depicts a society as yet untainted by the traumas and complexities of twentieth-century living. With wit and subtlety a happy picture is drawn of family life, house parties in the country and...

  • The Coat Without Seam

    The story of a miraculous relic, believed to be a piece of the seamless coat won by a soldier on Mount Golgotha after Jesus of Nazareth’s crucifixion, captivates young Christopher Trevenen after his sister dies tragically and motivates the very cor...

  • Daphne Adeane

    Barrister Basil Wake and his arresting wife Hyacinth lead a well-appointed existence in the social whirl of London’s early 1900s. For eight years Hyacinth has conducted a most discreet affair with Parliamentarian Michael Choyce, who seems to fit in...

  • Darby and Joan

    A series of romances, missed chances, and disasters befall the lives of Joan Brendon and Alexander Luttrell in a real life game of snakes and ladders, as each falls for others who enter their lives at seemingly unpropitious moments. Tragic misunderst...

  • In the End Is My Beginning

    This historical novel tells the tragic story of Mary Queen of Scots, from her childhood until the beginning of her end, whose unwise marital and political actions provoked rebellion among Scottish nobles and forced her to flee to England, where she w...

  • Tinker's Leave

    Reserved and unworldly, young Miles Consterdine and his epiphanic trip to Paris is Maurice Baring’s first bead on this thread of a story based on impressions received by the author in Russia and Manchuria during wartime. From here Baring allows us ...

  • The Puppet Show Of Memory

    Maurice Baring (1874-1945) was a versatile English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent. The Puppet Show of Memory is an autobiography....

  • Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches

  • The Blue Rose Fairy Book

    Once upon a time there lived a King and a Queen who had one daughter called Rainbow. When she was christened, the people of the city were gathered together outside the cathedral, and amongst them was an old gipsy woman. The gipsy wanted to go inside ...



  • Lost Diaries

    This book was digitized and reprinted from the collections of the University of California Libraries. It was produced from digital images created through the libraries’ mass digitization efforts. The digital images were cleaned and prepared for pri...

  • Overlooked

    Maurice Baring pushes the limits of narrative fiction in this classic novella. The first part of the tale follows the recovery of a sight-impaired gentleman named Anthony Key, who has retreated to a convalescent resort on his doctor's orders. The...

  • Cat's Cradle

    This sophisticated and intricate novel, based on true events, takes place in the late nineteenth century and begins with Henry Clifford, a man of taste and worldly philosophy, whose simple determination to do as he likes and live as he wishes is thre...

  • Thoughts on Art and Life by Leonardo Da Vinci

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • The Lonely Lady Of Dulwich

    The novel portrays the life of a lonely, beautiful, yet over-protected Catholic girl and the several loves of her long life. A struggle develops between the demands of love and religious orthodoxy and matters of conscience are examined in significant...

  • Orpheus in Mayfair, and Other Stories and Sketches

    Maurice Baring was an English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent. During World War I, Baring served in the Intelligence Corps and Royal Air Force....

  • An Outline of Russian Literature

    This vintage book contains Maurice Baring's 1914 treatise, "An Outline Of Russian Literature". Maurice Baring (1874 - 1945) was an English dramatist, novelist, translator, poet, and essayist. He also worked for the Intelligence Corps and ...

  • Passing by

    Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have ende...

  • Maurice Baring - Overlooked

    Maurice Baring OBE was born on 27th April 1874 in Mayfair, London. He was the fifth son of eight children to Edward Charles Baring, first Baron Revelstoke, of the Baring banking family, and his wife Louisa Emily Charlotte Bulteel. After the obligator...

  • Orpheus in Mayfair

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    British literary jack-of-all-trades Maurice Baring first rose to prominence as a writer of travelogues, which he later parlayed into a career as an intrepid war correspondent. When he shifted his focus to fiction, his prose retained the local color a...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Maurice Baring has published 19 books.

Maurice Baring does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Maurice Baring - Overlooked, was published in September 2019.

The first book by Maurice Baring, The Coat Without Seam, was published in May 2001.

No. Maurice Baring does not write books in series.
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