The Long Week-End: A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939 - Softcover

Graves, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393311368 ISBN 13: 9780393311365

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001

Synopsis

“The long week-end” is Robert Grave’s and Alan Hodge’s evocative phrase for the period in Great Britain’s social history between the twin devastations of the Great War and World War II. With brilliant wit and trenchant judgments they offer a scintillating survey of seemingly everything that went on of any consequence (or inconsequence) in those years in politics, business, science, religion, art, literature, fashion, education, popular amusements, domestic life, sexual relations―and much else.

A classic social history by two distinguished writers who lived through the time. "The long week-end" is the authors' evocative phrase for the period in Great Britain's social history between the twin devastations of the Great War and World War II. From a postwar period of prosperity and frivolity through the ever-darkening decade of the thirties, The Long Week-End deftly and movingly preserves the details and captures the spirit of the time.

About this title

From the Publisher:

First published in 1940, this survey of the inter-war period not only includes surface aspects of the era—from plays and novels to dance fads and fashions—but also discusses the international influences at work in politics, science, business and religion. Short hair and shorter skirts arrived during the 1920s; "New Education" became a going concern; the British Labour Party became respectable at last; and, as the 1930s wore on, public acknowledgement of the possibility of another world war was feverishly avoided in an ever-increasing whirl of activities.

From the Back Cover:

Across this crowded canvas of British life stride the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Simpson, Neville Chamberlain, and dozens of other figures great and small who put their stamp on the era.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0393311368
• ISBN 13: 9780393311365
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 476