The Last Country Houses

The Last Country Houses
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Total Pages : 344
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ISBN-10 : 0300034741
ISBN-13 : 9780300034745
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Book Synopsis The Last Country Houses by : Clive Aslet

Download or read book The Last Country Houses written by Clive Aslet and published by . This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magnificent country houses built in Britain between 1890 and 1939 were the last monuments to a vanishing age. Many of these great mammoths of domestic architecture were unsuited to the changes in economic and social priorities that followed the two world wars, and rapidly became extinct. Those that survive, however, provide tangible evidence of the life and death of an extraordinarily prosperous age.The fascinating world, so vividly depicted in Evelyn Waughs Brideshead Revisited, can now be viewed from a new perspective. The Last Country Houses will enlighten all those interested in glimpsing the lost life style of another age.


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