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Carregando... 1939: The Last Season of Peace (1989)de Angela Lambert
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Really good survey of the 1939 'Season' when debutantes entered Society. Using extensive research with survivors, Lamberty carefully sets out the background and then the events month by month from May onwards, against the backdrop of gathering war. Towards the end, WWII becomes the dominant theme. Lambert is sympathetic but not starry-eyed about her subject, and does not hesitate to add her own social opinions. Many verbatim quotations and stories, and plenty of detail about individual events and how it was all arranged. If you like social history relating to the upper classes, or aspects of 20th century history more generally, you will enjoy this book. ( ) Interesting and fairly compact history of the "debutante season" in the last spring and summer of peace, 1939. The author does a very good job of setting the stage as to what the season is all about and then, thanks to a number of interviews with surviving "debs," discusses that last season. Quite entertaining, and also a bit poignant, since even more so than in 1914, 1939 represented the vanishing of a whole way of life. Recommended. 1939, the last summer before World War II broke out saw the last of the large scale extravagant debutante seasons in London. Written in 1989, when the alumna of this extravagant series of presentations, dances and sporting events were still in their sixties, author Angela Lambert tracked down and interviewed dozens of the participants. What emerges is a riveting "cinema verite" version of what life among the upper classes was like almost 80 years ago. Those days are gone forever, and probably a good thing too. But it's fun to get a peek at what today seems like a dream-like existence. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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It was called the London Season, and for three centuries it had been a time of fashionable suppers and brilliant balls that introduced England's most aristocratic and eligible girls to society. Though by 1939 the stately gavottes and minuets had long since given way to waltzes and fox-trots, the cream of young womanhood still curtsied low before the Queen and then went out to dance the night away with the young men they would one day marry. But the Season of 1939 was different: it was to be the last. And like many a finale, it lives on in memory as a lovely, enchanted dream, all the more beautiful for the horror and destruction that would follow so soon. Based on a wealth of first-hand reminiscences, press clippings, and memorabilia,1939: The Last Season of Peace is a fascinating portrait of this fairy tale about to end. Itcaptures the end of an era as it recreates a world whose inhabitants still believed in empire and tradition. It is a vivid picture of a generation suspended in a brief moment of sunlit summer glory, before the gathering storm of World War II swept it all away. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — Carregando... GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)941.084History and Geography Europe British Isles Historical periods of British Isles 1837- Period of Victoria and House of Windsor 1936-1945Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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