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The Adventure of Living: a Subjective Autobiographyby John St. Loe StracheyYou who know something of the irony of life in general, and still more of it in the present particular, will not be surprised that, having made two strict rules for my guidance in the writing of this book, I break them both in the first page! Indeed, I can hear you say, though without any touch of the satirical, that it was only natural that I should do so.The first of my two rules, heartily approved by you, let me add, is thatI should not mention you in my autobiography.-We both deem it foolishas well as unseemly to violate in print the freemasonry of marriage.-The second, not unlike the first, is not to write about living people.And here am I hard at it in both cases!Yet, after all, I have kept to my resolve in the spirit, if not in the letter:-and this though it has cost me some very good "copy,"-copy, too, which would have afforded me the pleasantest of memories. There are things seen by us together which I much regret to leave unchronicled, but these must wait for another occasion. Many of them are quite suitable to be recorded in one's lifetime. For example, I should dearly like to set forth our ride from Jerusalem to Damascus, together with some circumstances, as an old-fashioned traveller might have said, concerning the Garden of the Jews at Jahoni, and the strange and beautiful creature we found therein.We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quali