Adrian Tinniswood

The Long Weekend

Life in the English Country House Between the Wars

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Produktbeschreibung

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER All that glitters is not gold - join Adrian Tinniswood as he uncovers the truth behind life in the English country house. During the 1920s and 1930s, as the sun set slowly on the British Empire, England's stately homes concealed worlds both opulent and ordinary, noble and viscious. This was a life draped in myth, hidden behind stiff upper lips and film-star smiles. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, on unpublished letters and diaries, on the eye-witness testimonies of belted earls, unhappy heiresses and bullying butlers, The Long Weekend reveals how the image of the country house was carefully protected by its occupants above and below stairs, and how the reality was so much more interesting than the dream. 'A masterpiece of social history' Daily Mail

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781529961980
• ISBN-10: 152996198X
• Artikelnr.: 72737442

Autorenporträt

Adrian Tinniswood is professorial research fellow in history at the University of Buckingham, adjunct professor of history at Maynooth University and the author of many books on British history, including the Sunday Times bestseller The Long Weekend. He was awarded an OBE for services to heritage, and lives in the west of Ireland.

Rezensionen

[A] fantastically readable and endlessly fascinating book... Delicious, occasionally fantastical, revealing in ways that Downton Abbey never was. It is as if Tinniswood is at the biggest, wildest, most luxuriantly decadent party ever thrown, and he knows everyone. Rachel Cooke Observer