Autobiographical account of the collection and collecting of Peggy Guggenheim. Includes "Introduction" by Alfred H. Barr Jr. Chapters by Guggenheim include "Gilt-Edged Childhood"; "Marriages"; "Guggenheim Jeune"; "Serious Collecting"; "Life with Max Ernst"; "Art of this Century"; "Venice and the Biennale"; "Palazzo Venier dei Leoni"; "Ceylon, India and Venice Again"; "New York Revisited."