The New Book of Snobs
A Definitive Guide to Modern Snobbery
$33.05
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
12 June 2017
Summary
‘Hugely enjoyable’ AN Wilson, *Sunday Times*
‘Thoughtful, entertaining and enjoyable’ Michael Gove, Book of the Week, *The Times*
Inspired by William Makepeace Thackeray, the first great analyst of snobbery, and his trail-blazing The Book of Snobs (1848), D. J. Taylor brings us a field guide to the modern snob.
Short of calling someone a racist or a paedophile, one of the worst charges you can lay at anybody’s door in the earl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472123930 |
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| ISBN-10: | 147212393X |
| Author: | D.J. Taylor |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Constable |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 12 June 2017 |
| Weight: | 230g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 19mm |
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An intelligent writer– Guardian
Hugely enjoyable - Sunday Times
Thoughtful, entertaining and enjoyable … Taylor has a shrewd eye for the ways in which snobbery evolves over time - The TimesAn intelligent writer - GuardianAbout The Author
D.J. Taylor
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.
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