London: The Glamour Years 1919-39
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Between the armistice of 1918 and the gathering storm of the Second World War, London blazed with an extraordinary energy — a city reinventing itself through jazz, cocktails, couture, and a fierce, almost desperate desire for pleasure. London: The Glamour Years 1919-39 chronicles this glittering interwar era in vivid detail, painting a portrait of a metropolis where flappers danced in the Mayfair clubs, Art Deco transformed the skyline, and society columnists recorded the scandalous exploits of the Bright Young Things with breathless admiration. Susanne Everett captures the full social spectrum of the period, from the grand theatrical spectacles of the West End to the smoky intimacy of Soho's jazz cellars, presenting a world balanced thrillingly on the knife-edge between exuberance and anxiety. Richly illustrated and meticulously researched, the work argues that these two decades represent London's most culturally electric chapter — a period when modernity arrived in a torrent of new fashions, new technologies, and new ideas about what it meant to be free. Everett's authoritative narrative weaves together politics, popular culture, architecture, and social history into a seamless tapestry, illustrating how a city scarred by one catastrophic war threw itself headlong into reinvention, only to find another looming on the horizon. For anyone captivated by the era of Noël Coward, Cecil Beaton, and the roar of the 1920s, this is an essential and irresistible chronicle of a world that burned brilliantly — and all too briefly.
Author: Susanne Everett
Format: Hardback
Genre: British & Irish history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Between the armistice of 1918 and the gathering storm of the Second World War, London blazed with an extraordinary energy — a city reinventing itself through jazz, cocktails, couture, and a fierce, almost desperate desire for pleasure. London: The Glamour Years 1919-39 chronicles this glittering interwar era in vivid detail, painting a portrait of a metropolis where flappers danced in the Mayfair clubs, Art Deco transformed the skyline, and society columnists recorded the scandalous exploits of the Bright Young Things with breathless admiration. Susanne Everett captures the full social spectrum of the period, from the grand theatrical spectacles of the West End to the smoky intimacy of Soho's jazz cellars, presenting a world balanced thrillingly on the knife-edge between exuberance and anxiety. Richly illustrated and meticulously researched, the work argues that these two decades represent London's most culturally electric chapter — a period when modernity arrived in a torrent of new fashions, new technologies, and new ideas about what it meant to be free. Everett's authoritative narrative weaves together politics, popular culture, architecture, and social history into a seamless tapestry, illustrating how a city scarred by one catastrophic war threw itself headlong into reinvention, only to find another looming on the horizon. For anyone captivated by the era of Noël Coward, Cecil Beaton, and the roar of the 1920s, this is an essential and irresistible chronicle of a world that burned brilliantly — and all too briefly.