Dalì, Magritte, Max Ernst - throughout his life, Edward James (1907 - 1984) met all the prominent figures in the world of surrealism. With his astounding wealth and refined artistic sensibility, he built an incredible art collection before selling parts of it to fulfill his dream of a surrealist sculpture park in the Mexican jungle. In his autobiography, Edward James recounts his development into an eccentric art patron. Born and raised in the seemingly boundless wealth of the English aristocracy - his illegitimate grandfather was King Edward VII - he was raised by a hysterical mother and had four older sisters who showered him, the father's favorite and sole heir to the family fortune, with jealousy and envy from the day he was born, tormented by teachers in boarding schools, surrounded by...