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HATTERSLEY,ROY**: : THE EDWARDIANS.[Author SIGNED copy.]**

LONDON.LITTLE,BROWN,2004.

ISBN 0316725374.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn. FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.Minimal shelf wear with negligible creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Minisculely bumped with reciprocal creases,to both head+foot of spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and clean apart from a couple of small thumb marks,contents bright,tight and clean. Bright,clean red paper-covered bds with bright,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and sepia illustrated eps.8vo, vi-vii+2-520pp includes half-title, author's neat,ink signature to title-page,contents list,intro,Pts 1-5 comprising 20 chapters,16pp contemporary b/w photographs in blocks of 8pp between pp184/85 and pp328/29 respectively; epilogue,notes,select biblio and an index. Edwardian Britain has often been described as a golden sunlit afternoon - personified by its genial and self-indulgent King.In fact,modern Britain was born during the reign of Edward VII,when politics,science,literature and the arts were turned upside down.In Parliament the peers were crushed for the first time since the Magna Carta.Irish nationalists and sufferagettes took politics out onto the streets.Home Rule and Votes for Women were delayed,not precipitated,by the First World War.Great parliamentary stars such as Lloyd George and Churchill typified an era in which personalities dominated the headlines of the new tabloid newspapers.It was the age of Rolls and Royce,Scott and Shackleton,Elgar,G.B.Shaw,the Pankhursts and Mrs Alice Keppel,whose social life was reported without mention of her relationship with the King.The theatre of ideas superseded drawing-room dramas. Novelists of genius - from Henry James to D.H.Lawrence - produced a masterpiece each year.A London gallery caused a sensation with an exhibition of 'Post-IMpressionists'.Edward Elgar was the first English composer for two hundred years to stand comparison with the continental European masters.In sport,Victorian chivalry was replaced with unashamed professionalism.Man flew for the first time and the motor car became a common sight on city streets.Physicists examined the structure of the atom and philosophers disputed the traditional definition of virtue.The Churches tried,without success, to confront and confound a new scepticicsm.Explorers sought to prove that men could live,and die,like gods.Drawing on previously unpublished diaries and letters,Roy Hattersley's 'The Edwardians' is a beguiling account of a turbulent and frequently misunderstood period.It is a full and often humorous portrait of an era that he elevates to its rightful place in British history. Please contact seller,because of the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

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