Adrian Tinniswood - The Long Weekend

Adrian Tinniswood - The Long Weekend

29,99 €

"Drawing on thousands of memoirs, unpublished letters and diaries, and the eye-witness testimonies of belted earls and bibulous butlers, historian Adrian Tinniswood brings the stately homes of England to life ..., opening the door onto a world half-remembered, glamorous, shameful at times, and forever wrapped in myth. [His book] revels...

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"Drawing on thousands of memoirs, unpublished letters and diaries, and the eye-witness testimonies of belted earls and bibulous butlers, historian Adrian Tinniswood brings the stately homes of England to life ..., opening the door onto a world half-remembered, glamorous, shameful at times, and forever wrapped in myth. [His book] revels in the sheer variety of country house life: from King George V poring over his stamp collection at Sandringham to fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley collecting mistresses at ancestral homes across the nation, from Edward VIII entertaining Wallis Simpson at Fort Belvedere to the Duke of Marlborough at Blenheim, whose wife became obsessed with her pet spaniels"--
Marke Basic Books
EAN 9780465048984
ISBN 978-0-465-04898-4
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