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Author | : Marcus Scriven |
Publisher | : Atlantic Books (UK) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781843541257 |
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They were the black sheep of aristocracy and this is their story. From stately homes to the prisons of wartime Britain; from the House of Lords to Edwardian asylums; from the Ritz and the Dorchester to East End dives, Splendour and Squalor tells the fascinating stories of three of Britain's most illustrious aristocratic dynasties and of the black sheep who brought them down.
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Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Families |
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Download Proceedings, Management of Resources "squalor to Splendour" Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Samuel Stehman Haldeman |
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Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1865 |
Genre | : English language |
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Download Affixes in Their Origin and Application Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Federico de Roberto |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 653 |
Release | : 2016-01-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1784782580 |
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A lost literary classic, written in 1894, The Viceroys is one of the most acclaimed masterworks of Italian realism. The novel follows three generations of the aristocratic Uzeda family as it struggles to hold on to power in the face of the cataclysmic changes rocking Sicily. As Garibaldi's triumphs move Italy toward unification, the Uzedas try every means to retain their position. De Roberto's satirical and mordant pen depicts a cast of upper-class schemers, headed by the old matriarch, Donna Teresa, and exemplified by her arrogant and totally unscrupulous son, Consalvo, who rises to political eminence through lip service, double-dealing, and hypocrisy. The Viceroys is a vast dramatic panorama: a new world fighting to shrug off the viciousness and iniquities of the old.
Author | : Austin Dobson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : English poetry |
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Author | : Marcus Scriven |
Publisher | : Atlantic Books |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2011-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1848874855 |
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From stately homes and prisons to the House of Lords and Edwardian asylums—the stories, spanning the 20th century, of the disintegrating fortunes of three of Britain’s most illustrious aristocratic dynasties and the scapegraces responsibleSplendour & Squalor traces the disintegration of three aristocratic dynasties through the twentieth century: families who seemingly had everything yet decided to take 'the down-escalator of life.' They include the Montagus, Dukes of Manchester, who had once employed Vanburgh—creator of Blenheim Palace, Churchill's birthplace—to remodel their principal family seat, Kimbolton Castle; shortly before the outbreak of World War II, the Montagus oversaw further renovation—converting the Kimbolton chapel into a bar, and stocking it with glasses decorated with 'pornography of the most interesting kind,' for the benefit of guests like the restless, bisexual Duke of Kent, younger brother of George VI. Four consecutive generations of the family went to jail. The Herveys, Marquesses of Bristol, went inside too, although John Bristol (7th Marquess of Bristol, born 1954; died 1999) spent most of his time investing his inheritance in helicopters, heroin, and—for strictly recreational purposes—handcuffs: a blazing quest for self-gratification which led him into the company of Andy Warhol and Mick Jagger. Splendour & Squalor offers a riveting insight into the disintegration of a once seemingly impregnable elite. The resultant portrait is the authentic Downton Abbey—stripped of gloss, mythology and sentiment, and brought mercilessly up-to-date.
Author | : F.W. ROBINSON |
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Release | : 1885 |
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Author | : Bernard Granville Baker |
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Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Author | : Julia P. Gelardi |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 557 |
Release | : 2011-02-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1429990945 |
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This sweeping saga recreates the extraordinary opulence and violence of Tsarist Russia as the shadow of revolution fell over the land, and destroyed a way of life for these Imperial women The early 1850s until the late 1920s marked a turbulent and significant era for Russia. During that time the country underwent a massive transformation, taking it from days of grandeur under the tsars to the chaos of revolution and the beginnings of the Soviet Union. At the center of all this tumult were four women of the Romanov dynasty. Marie Alexandrovna and Olga Constantinovna were born into the family, Russian Grand Duchesses at birth. Marie Feodorovna and Marie Pavlovna married into the dynasty, the former born a Princess of Denmark, the latter a Duchess of the German duchy of Mecklendburg-Schwerin. In From Splendor to Revolution, we watch these pampered aristocratic women fight for their lives as the cataclysm of war engulfs them. In a matter of a few short years, they fell from the pinnacle of wealth and power to the depths of danger, poverty, and exile. It is an unforgettable epic story.
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Total Pages | : 806 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Literature |
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