Class: A View From Middle England
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
What does it really mean to be British — and does the class you were born into still define who you are? Jilly Cooper's Class: A View from Middle England is a wickedly sharp and warmly comic dissection of the British class system, charting the manners, mores, and magnificent absurdities that separate the aristocracy from the working class, with every gradation in between laid bare with forensic wit. Through a series of brilliantly observed portraits — from the landed gentry to the upwardly mobile — Cooper presents a social taxonomy that is as revealing as it is riotously entertaining, illustrated throughout with drawings by Timothy Jaques that perfectly complement her incisive prose. Written with the authority of an insider and the mischief of a born satirist, Class stands as one of the most enduring and beloved works of popular social commentary produced in late twentieth-century Britain. Cooper's style is deceptively breezy, masking a genuinely acute intelligence that chronicles the rituals of British life — the school one attends, the words one uses, the food one eats — as reliable markers of social tribe. Decades after its first publication, the book retains a startling relevance, leaving the reader to wonder just how much — or how little — England has truly changed.
Author: Jilly Cooper
Format: Hardback
Genre: Society & culture
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
What does it really mean to be British — and does the class you were born into still define who you are? Jilly Cooper's Class: A View from Middle England is a wickedly sharp and warmly comic dissection of the British class system, charting the manners, mores, and magnificent absurdities that separate the aristocracy from the working class, with every gradation in between laid bare with forensic wit. Through a series of brilliantly observed portraits — from the landed gentry to the upwardly mobile — Cooper presents a social taxonomy that is as revealing as it is riotously entertaining, illustrated throughout with drawings by Timothy Jaques that perfectly complement her incisive prose. Written with the authority of an insider and the mischief of a born satirist, Class stands as one of the most enduring and beloved works of popular social commentary produced in late twentieth-century Britain. Cooper's style is deceptively breezy, masking a genuinely acute intelligence that chronicles the rituals of British life — the school one attends, the words one uses, the food one eats — as reliable markers of social tribe. Decades after its first publication, the book retains a startling relevance, leaving the reader to wonder just how much — or how little — England has truly changed.