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Long Weekend

Life in the English Country House Between the Wars

Tinniswood, Adrian

Long Weekend

Long Weekend

Life in the English Country House Between the Wars

Long Weekend

 

This evocatively illustrated history of the English country house in the twenties and thirties, offering a window into the aspirations and position of tradition in the inter-war era

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Beschrijving Long Weekend

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 decline in which the sun set slowly on the British Empire and the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes. The author uncovers the truth about them.

ISBN
9780099592853
Pagina's
416
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NUR
680
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Paperback / softback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
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