The Shooting Party: Isabel Colegate (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Colegate, Isabel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141188677 ISBN 13: 9780141188676

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2007

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'Threads of romance, social comment, country lore and intrigue both above and below stairs are cunningly worked together to create a brilliant tapestry' Sunday Telegraph

It is 1913 - a breath away from the Great War - and Edwardian England is about to vanish into history. An assorted group of men and women gather at Sir Randolph Nettleby's estate for a shooting party. Opulent, adulterous, moving assuredly through the rituals of eating and slaughter, they are an era's dazzlingly obtuse and brilliantly decorative finale.

A quiet, elegant meditation on class frustration and the transience of human concern, The Shooting Party is also the inspiration behind one of the great landmarks of popular culture - Downtown Abbey.

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Isabel Colegate is the acclaimed author of many bestselling books including The Shooting Party, The Orlando Trilogy, The Summer of the Royal Visit and Winter Journey.

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It is 1913 - just prior to England's entry into World War I - and Edwardian England is about to vanish into history. A group of men and women gather at Sir Randolph Nettleby's estate for a shooting party. Opulent, adulterous, moving through the rituals of eating and slaughter, they are obtuse and decorative finale of an era.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0141188677
• ISBN 13: 9780141188676
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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