The Pleasures of the Past

By David Cannadine

Book Overview

Each of the thirty essays here penetrates to the root of a character, a problem, a style, an idea, drawn from the recent British past. Clear-eyed, acerbic, witty, David Cannadine makes the ideal guide... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393027562
• ISBN13: 9780393027563
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.