An English Christmas
$31.70
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
10 November 2020
Summary
‘If I could work my will,’ said Scrooge indignantly, ‘Every idiot who goes about with “Merry Christmas” on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.’
This year go carol-singing in the Cotswolds with Laurie Lee or attend church with a grumpy Samuel Pepys. Make plum puddings for bemused French villagers with Elizabeth David; go present shopping with Virginia Woolf or eat far too much with Agatha Christie. Celebrate Christmas at …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473665934 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1473665930 |
| Author: | John Julius Norwich |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 10 November 2020 |
| Weight: | 208g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 24mm |
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Its contents are like those of a Christmas stocking, in that small nuggets jostle alongside much larger pieces– The Times
Its contents are like those of a Christmas stocking, in that small nuggets jostle alongside much larger pieces * The Times *A charming introduction that’s almost worth the admission price alone * The Spectator *
About The Author
John Julius Norwich
After National Service, John Julius Norwich (1929-2018) took a degree in French and Russian at New College, Oxford. In 1952 he joined the Foreign Service serving at the embassies in Belgrade and Beirut and with the British Delegation to the Disarmament Conference at Geneva. His publications include The Normans in Sicily; Mount Athos (with Reresby Sitwell); Sahara; The Architecture of Southern England; Glyndebourne; and A History of Venice. He was also the author of a three-volume history of the Byzantine Empire. He wrote and presented some thirty historical documentaries for television, and was a regular lecturer on Venice and numerous other subjects. Lord Norwich was chairman of the Venice in Peril Fund, Co-chairman of the World Monuments Fund and a former member of the Executive Committee of the National Trust. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Geographical Society and the Society of Antiquaries, and a Commendatore of the Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana. He was made a CVO in 1993.
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