The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940
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Köp båda 2 för 419 krTaylor writes with such skill and aplomb that it's impossible not to be swept along by the intelligence and observations * Guardian * Shrewd and absorbing in his analysis of the way Waugh and Nancy Mitford promoted the world they would soon skewer in fiction * Sunday Times * Moving and always entertaining -- Jane Stevenson * Daily Telegraph * The depth and integrity of Taylor's research can only inspire awe and admiration. * Sunday Express * D J Taylor's enthusiasm, delivered with the zeal of a recent convert, proves there is fascination even in empty living and that the Bright Young Brigade of the 1920s are just as worthy of a book or two as Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, Tamara Beckwith, Calum Best and all the flapping 'It-people' of our own generation -- Alexander Waugh * Literary Review *
D.J.Taylor is a novelist, critic and acclaimed biographer of William Thackeray and George Orwell (both available in paperback). His Orwell: The Life won the Whitbread Biography of the year for 2003. His most recent books are the Victorian novel Kept: A Victorian Mystery (Chatto, 2006) and The Corinthian Spirit: on the decline of Amateurism in Sport (Yellow Jersey, 2006). He is married with three children and lives in Norwich.