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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. medbie | Jul 3, 2008 |  1   2608 The Edwardians, by V. Sackville-West (read 24 May 1994) This book has a different warning in its front: "No character in this book is wholly fictitious." It is one of the author's most famous novels--it and All Passion Spent (1981)--and it has some incredibly sure-seeming touches and I suppose some hint of authenticity since the author was born in"the ancestral mansion presented to Thomas Sackville by Queen Elizabeth". per the Encyclopedia Americana. I am tempted to read some of her other books if they are findable, but I really didn't enjoy this book greatly, though it held one's interest, despite much to deplore in the main character's morals. (  )Schmerguls | Apr 8, 2008 | 0.185 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0860683591, Paperback)Sebastian and Viola are children of the English aristocracy. Handsome and moody, 19-year-old Sebastian is heir to Chevron, a vast country estate. Tying him to his inheritance is a deep sense of tradition and love of the English countryside, but he loathes the cold, extravagant society of which he is a part. At 16, his sister Viola is more independent: an unfashionable beauty who scorns every part of her inheritance—most particularly that of womanhood. It is July 1905, and Chevron is once again the site of a lavish house party. The guests include the great beauty Lady Rochampton and the explorer Leonard Anquetil. It is Lady Rochampton who will initiate Sebastian in the art of love, but it is Anquetil who opens for both brother and sister the gateway to another world. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:24 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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Sackville-West deals gently yet firmly with the social aspects of the age, the double standards, the society, and the arrising reforms.
Sebastian becomes very real, very human and his struggles are believable. Though maybe not her finest works, The Edwardians is an excellent book and well worth reading. (