Children Of The Sun: A Narrative of Decadence in England after 1918
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After World War I a brilliant and influential generation of young men deliberately overturned the values of their fathers and shaped the dominant cultural styles of the English-speaking world. In this book, the author traces the fate of these people, through the lives of Harold Acton and Brian Howard and some 40 of their friends - Waugh, Auden, Isherwood, Spender, Connolly, Philby, Burgess, Maclean, Beaton and Betjeman among them.
Author: Martin Green
Format: Paperback, 552 pages, 137mm x 216mm, 592 g
Published: 1992, Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom
Genre: Cultural Studies
Description
After World War I a brilliant and influential generation of young men deliberately overturned the values of their fathers and shaped the dominant cultural styles of the English-speaking world. In this book, the author traces the fate of these people, through the lives of Harold Acton and Brian Howard and some 40 of their friends - Waugh, Auden, Isherwood, Spender, Connolly, Philby, Burgess, Maclean, Beaton and Betjeman among them.
Children Of The Sun: A Narrative of Decadence in England after 1918