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The perfect summer : England 1911, just before the storm
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The perfect summer : England 1911, just before the storm

Author: Juliet Nicolson
Publisher: New York : Grove Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, ©2006.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 1st American edView all editions and formats
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The Perfect Summer chronicles a glorious English summer a century ago when the world was on the cusp of irrevocable change. That summer of 1911 a new king was crowned and the aristocracy was at play, bounding from one house party to the next. But perfection was not for all. Cracks in the social fabric were showing. The country was brought to a standstill by industrial strikes. Temperatures rose steadily to more than  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Juliet Nicolson
ISBN: 0802118461 9780802118462
OCLC Number: 76836228
Notes: Originally published: London : John Murray, 2006.
Description: xiii, 290 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Responsibility: Juliet Nicolson.
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The Perfect Summer chronicles a glorious English summer a century ago when the world was on the cusp of irrevocable change. That summer of 1911 a new king was crowned and the aristocracy was at play, bounding from one house party to the next. But perfection was not for all. Cracks in the social fabric were showing. The country was brought to a standstill by industrial strikes. Temperatures rose steadily to more than 100 degrees; by August deaths from heatstroke were too many for newspapers to report. Drawing on material from intimate and rarely seen sources and narrated through the eyes of a series of exceptional individuals--among them a debutante, a choirboy, a politician, a trade unionist, a butler, and the Queen--this is a vividly rendered glimpse of the twilight of the Edwardian era.--From publisher description.

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