'Threads of romance, social comment, country lore and intrigue both above and below stairs are cunningly worked together to create a brilliant tapestry' Sunday Telegraph
It is 1913 - a breath away from the Great War - and Edwardian England is about to vanish into history. An assorted group of men and women gather at Sir Randolph Nettleby's estate for a shooting party. Opulent, adulterous, moving assuredly through the rituals of eating and slaughter, they are an era's dazzlingly obtuse and brilliantly decorative finale.
A quiet, elegant meditation on class frustration and the transience of human concern, The Shooting Party is also the inspiration behind one of the great landmarks of popular culture - Downtown Abbey.
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- Authors:
- Colegate, Isabel
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9780141188676
- Number of Pages:
- 224
- Publication Date:
- 04/01/2007
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Series:
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Year Published:
- 2007
- Publication Date:
- 04/01/2007
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Language:
- English
- Imprint:
- Penguin Classics
- SKU:
- 9780141188676