THE AGE OF SCANDAL: An Excursion Through a Minor Period

This is a pristine copy of a much-loved work of non-fiction from T.H.White.

It has never been opened. It is brightly coloured boards with a brown spine and numerous images inside. Comes in a slip case.

The Age of Scandal, An Excursion through a Minor Period. A collection of entertaining essays on18th century England by the novelist Terence Hanbury White (1906–1964). White was known for his sequence of Arthurian novels, The Once and Future King, first published together in 1958. One of his most memorable stories is the first of that series, The Sword in the Stone, published as a stand-alone book in1938.

The Age of Scandal focuses on the period in late 18th-century England following the Age of Reason--a period characterized by dilettantism, material comfort & eccentricity. People are sentimental, dramatic, tearful, lovers of gossip, fashion & exhibitionistic behavior. It is a fascinating record of the eccentricities of the 18th-century Royal Family, the fashions of the nobility and the outrageous gossip circulating in literary circles. A witty, idiosyncratic, audacious portrait of a waning aristocracy, The Age of Scandal is an entertaining, authoritative description of late 18th-century English literati.

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