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| Document Type: | Book |
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| 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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Abstract:
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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