The long weekend : life in the English country house 1918-1939 /
by Tinniswood, Adrian.
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BookPublisher: London : Jonathan Cape, 2016Description: 256 pages ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780224099455 (hbk.) :; 0224099450 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 941.083 TINSubject(s): Social classes -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Country homes -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936 | Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945 | History | HistorySummary: There is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two world wars, a period of gentle decline in which the sun set slowly on the British Empire and the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes. Real life in the country house during the 1920s and 1930s was not always so sunny. By turns opulent and ordinary, noble and vicious, its shadows were darker. In 'The Long Weekend', Adrian Tinniswood uncovers the truth about a world half-forgotten, draped in myth and hidden behind stiff upper lips and film-star smiles.
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There is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two world wars, a period of gentle decline in which the sun set slowly on the British Empire and the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes. Real life in the country house during the 1920s and 1930s was not always so sunny. By turns opulent and ordinary, noble and vicious, its shadows were darker. In 'The Long Weekend', Adrian Tinniswood uncovers the truth about a world half-forgotten, draped in myth and hidden behind stiff upper lips and film-star smiles.
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