England, Their England

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England, Their England

England, Their England

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I do think the English would enjoy this more than I did, particularly those with a sense of pride and nostalgia for a lost Olde England. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking.

Ostensibly about a scotsman coming to London to observe the English in preparation for writing a book about them, it is actually a lovely selection of glimpses into a bygone lifestyle of ill prepared diplomats, country house weekends and sport in its various guises amongst other things. It has already faded a lot in the six weeks since I read it, but the one large thing I am taking away from it is an introduction to the work of J. Although the rest of his books have been largely forgotten, several of them earned accolades during his lifetime. It was revealing as a piece of history too, with potential MP's answering questions by thanking the questioner and saying nothing, demonstrating this is not a failing just of contemporary politicians. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it's more like having a well-read friend than a subscription to a literary review.For librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management.

For younger bookworms – and nostalgic older ones too – there’s the Slightly Foxed Cubs series, in which we’ve reissued a number of classic nature and historical novels. As a device to examine his subjects it worked, but the best books combine the observational humour with a good narrative too and tend not to end so abruptly. All of these are stereotypes but utterly identifiable as English in a specific time-and-place; this book is now, almost, a Sociological treatise.

Those whose lives are occupied in combatting the eccentricities of God regard as very small beer the eccentricities of Man.

I went to a school founded 5 years before I started there, so by the time I left I had witnessed half its history to that point, and the country I was born in was only founded in 1840, so it's hard to imagine what it would be like to go to a school with such a depth of history. Banished from his native Scotland by a curious clause in his father’s will, Donald Cameron moves to London and decides to conduct a study of the English people; a strange race who, he is told, have built an entire national identity around a reverence for team spirit and the memory of Lord Nelson .An important character is Mr Hodge, a caricature of Sir John Squire (poet and editor of the London Mercury), while the cricket team described in the book's most famous chapter is a representation of Sir John's Cricket Club – the Invalids – which survives today.



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