The Long Week-End: A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939

ISBN: 0393311368

Author: Graves, Robert

Condition: New

The long week-end is Robert Graves and Alan Hodges evocative phrase for the period in Great Britains social history between the twin devastations of the Great War and World War II. With brilliant wit and trenchant judgments they offer a scintillating survey of seemingly everything that went on of any consequence (or inconsequence) in those years in politics, business, science, religion, art, literature, fashion, education, popular amusements, domestic life, sexual relations-and much else. A classic social history by two distinguished writers who lived through the time. "The long week-end" is the authors' evocative phrase for the period in Great Britain's social history between the twin devastations of the Great War and World War II. From a postwar period of prosperity and frivolity through the ever-darkening decade of the thirties, The Long Week-End deftly and movingly preserves the details and captures the spirit of the time.

• History | The Long Week-End | Robert Graves | Alan Hodge