The House Party: A Short History Of Leisure Pleasure And Country Weekend Adrian Tinniswood Faber Αγγλικά Βιβλία Arts Architecture

A Delightful Journey Through The Glamorous Story Of English Country House Party By Bestselling Historian Croquet Parlour Games Cocktails Welcome To Glorious Golden Age - And You Are Invited Our Host Celebrated Adrian Tinniswood Traces Evolution This Quintessentially British Pastime From Debauched Royal Tours Flamboyant Excess Bright Young Things With Cameos Jazz Industrialist Bibulous Earl Off-Duty Politician Whether In Moated Manor Houses Or Ornate Palladian Villas Gives Vivid Insight Into Weekending Etiquette Reveals Hidden Lives Celebrity Guests Nancy Astor Winston Churchill All Their Drinking Feasting Gambling Fornicating Result Is Deliciously Entertaining Star-Studded Yet Surprisingly Moving Portrait Time When Social Conventions Were Being Radically Overhauled Escapism Generation Haunted War Uniquely Fast-Living Period History Praise For Long Weekend:\ Delicious Occasionally Fantastical Revealing Ways That Downton Abbey Never Was It As If At Biggest Wildest Most Luxuriantly Decadent Ever Thrown He Knows Everyone \ Observer Jaunty Wonderfully Knowledgeable Book Displays Terrific Insider\ S Grasp Gossip Meticulous Irresistible Spectator Elegant Encyclopedic Confident Skilled Who Understands Mores His Era Wears Learning Lightly Deserves Be On Every Costume Drama Producer\ Bookshelf Times Σελίδες: 144 Διαστάσεις: 12 9X12 9Cm