New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - An affectionate and entertaining account of this British novelist, poet and critic, a staunch anti-fascist, a Communist in the 1930s, who turned to religion at the end of his life, the son of the noted historian Arnold Toynbee - and a man whose life was a "web of contradictions." Based on both Mitford's own memories, and on his diary. Index. xiii, 175 pp. ISBN: 0-394532376.