An Edwardian Youth
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Pages & binding clean.
A charming work of autobiographical memoir, An Edwardian Youth chronicles the golden, sun-dappled world of upper-class English life in the early twentieth century through the warm and witty recollections of L. E. Jones. With elegant prose and a gently self-deprecating humor, Jones paints a vivid portrait of school days at Eton, the rituals of country house society, and the particular innocence of a privileged generation standing on the cusp of a world it could not yet know was about to vanish. The tone is nostalgic yet never maudlin, balancing affectionate comedy with a quiet awareness of the social and historical forces that would soon shatter the Edwardian idyll. A delight for readers drawn to the literature of reminiscence, it stands as a beautifully crafted testament to a lost England, rendered with the grace and precision of a born storyteller.
Author: L. E. Jones
Format: Hardback
Published: 1956, Macmillan & Co Ltd
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Pages & binding clean.
A charming work of autobiographical memoir, An Edwardian Youth chronicles the golden, sun-dappled world of upper-class English life in the early twentieth century through the warm and witty recollections of L. E. Jones. With elegant prose and a gently self-deprecating humor, Jones paints a vivid portrait of school days at Eton, the rituals of country house society, and the particular innocence of a privileged generation standing on the cusp of a world it could not yet know was about to vanish. The tone is nostalgic yet never maudlin, balancing affectionate comedy with a quiet awareness of the social and historical forces that would soon shatter the Edwardian idyll. A delight for readers drawn to the literature of reminiscence, it stands as a beautifully crafted testament to a lost England, rendered with the grace and precision of a born storyteller.