D.J. Taylor

Broschiertes Buch

The New Book of Snobs

A Definitive Guide to Modern Snobbery

Beschreibung

Thackeray's biographer, D.J. Taylor, updates The Book of Snobs (1848) for the twenty-first century. Waspish, acute and very funny.

Autor

D.J. Taylor's novels include English Settlement (1996), which won a Grinzane Cavour Prize, Trespass (1998) and Derby Day (2011), both long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, Kept: A Victorian Mystery (2006), a Publishers Weekly book of the year, and The Windsor Faction (2013), joint winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. He has also written several works of non-fiction, including Orwell: The Life, winner of the 2003 Whitbread Prize for Biography and, most recently, The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England Since 1918 (2016). He lives in Norwich with his wife, the novelist Rachel Hore, and their three sons.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Constable / Little, Brown Book Group
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 529785
• Repr.
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 123mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 229g
• ISBN-13: 9781472123930
• ISBN-10: 147212393X
• Artikelnr.: 47764693