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Loading... The Long Week-End: A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939by Robert Graves
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Long Weekend seems to pop in and out of print without ever quite being recognised as the great work of social history that it is. Indeed, I'm not sure that much social history was being written at all when Long Weekend was first published, but it just goes to show what a couple of really good brains - including a poetical one - can see when they turn their minds to the commonplace. If you want to know what the world of Brighton Rock or Vile Bodies or Keep the Aspidistra Flying or 20000 Streets Under The Sky was really like, you must read Lost Weekend. (  ) lightparade | Mar 2, 2008 |  chatty rendering of the lead up to WWII (  ) robertg69 | Dec 19, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0393311368, Paperback)A classic social history by two distinguished writers who lived through the time. "The long week-end" is the authors' evocative phrase for the period in Great Britain's social history between the twin devastations of the Great War and World War II. From a postwar period of prosperity and frivolity through the ever-darkening decade of the thirties, The Long Week-End deftly and movingly preserves the details and captures the spirit of the time.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:55 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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