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Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940
D J Taylor
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Description for Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940
Paperback. The Bright Young People were one of the most extraordinary youth cults in British history. A pleasure-seeking band of bohemian party-givers and blue-blooded socialites, they romped through the 1920s gossip columns. This book chronicles England's 'lost generation' of the Jazz Age. Num Pages: 336 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJG; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 23. Weight in Grams: 266.
Bright Young People/ Making the most of our youth/ They talk in the Press of our social success/ But quite the reverse is the truth. [Noel Coward]
The Bright Young People were one of the most extraordinary youth cults in British history. A pleasure-seeking band of bohemian party-givers and blue-blooded socialites, they romped through the 1920s gossip columns. Evelyn Waugh dramatised their antics in Vile Bodies and many of them, such as Anthony Powell, Nancy Mitford,Cecil Beaton and John Betjeman, later became household names. Their dealings with the media foreshadowed our modern celebrity culture and even today,we can detect ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099474470
SKU
V9780099474470
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Ref
99-40
About D J Taylor
D.J.Taylor is a novelist, critic and acclaimed biographer of William Thackeray and George Orwell (both available in paperback). His Orwell: The Life won the Whitbread Biography of the year for 2003. His most recent books are the Victorian novel Kept: A Victorian Mystery (Chatto, 2006) and The Corinthian Spirit: on the decline of Amateurism in Sport (Yellow Jersey, 2006). He ... Read more
Reviews for Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940
Taylor writes with such skill and aplomb that it's impossible not to be swept along by the intelligence and observations
Guardian
Shrewd and absorbing in his analysis of the way Waugh and Nancy Mitford promoted the world they would soon skewer in fiction
Sunday Times
Moving and always entertaining
Jane Stevenson
Daily Telegraph
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Guardian
Shrewd and absorbing in his analysis of the way Waugh and Nancy Mitford promoted the world they would soon skewer in fiction
Sunday Times
Moving and always entertaining
Jane Stevenson
Daily Telegraph
... Read more