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This best-selling book is a beautifully illustrated history of the English country house from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. In it, renowned architectural historian Mark Girouard presents a rare and revealing glimpse of the English upper classesâtheir public and personal lives, their servants, and their homes.
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"A deeply important book, one of the most interesting contributions to architectural history."âJ. H. Plumb, The New York Review of Books
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"A survey of country houses through the past five centuries, from a broad range of materials: family archives, literature, plans and photographs.... The book itself is a physical artifact of surpassing beauty which could fit on the grandest table in the houses it describes."âDavid Hackett Fischer, The New Republic
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"Informative, balanced, knowledgeable, and witty."âThe New Yorker
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"This enthralling and immensely informative book...tells with wit, scholarship, and lucidity how the country house evolved to meet the needs and reflect the social attitudes of the times."âPhilip Ziegler, The Times
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"One of those very useful and very enjoyable books that the learned can seldom write, and the entertaining seldom achieveâclear, detailed, and witty."âAngus Wilson, The Observer
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Winner of the 1978 Duff Cooper Memorial Prize and the W. H. Smith & Son Annual Literary Award for 1979.
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About: From literature, social chronicles, and family documents comes a study of the evolution and social role of the English country house since the Middle Ages
About: This best-selling book is a beautifully illustrated history of the English country house from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century.
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