Class, A View from Middle England
Language: English
Published by Eyre Methuen Ltd, London, 1979
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used

Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United KingdomThe Print Room
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Condition: Used - Very good
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First edition, third impression published later the same year, a tribute to the author's popularity. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners bruised, not price clipped (£4.95),no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 287pp. Describing herself as 'upper middle class', Jilly claims that snobbery is very much alive and thriving! Meet her hilarious characters! People like Harry Stow-Crat, Mr and Mrs Nouveau-Richards, Samantha and Gideon Upward, and Jen Teale and her husband Brian. Roar with laughter at her delightfully horribly unfair observations on their everyday pretensions, their sexual courtships, choice of furnishings, clothes, education, food, careers and ambitions. For they will all remind you of people that you know! Of its time.
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- Title
- Class, A View from Middle England
- Author
- Cooper Jilly (Dame)
- Publisher
- Eyre Methuen Ltd, London
- Publication year
- 1979
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0413373606
- ISBN 13
- 9780413373601
- Illustrator
- Jacket by Theo Bergstrom, illustrations by Timothy Jacques
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
From the Publisher
With drawings by Timothy Jaques
"Witheringly funny, illuminated by astonishing brilliance" - Observer
"Enormously readable and very funny" - Cosmopolitan
Synopsis: Jilly Cooper challenges the assumption that England nowadays is a classless society, and sets out to show how snobbery is alive and well and at home in the English mind. She chronicles the social attitudes and lifestyles of Harry Stow-Crat and his peers, Mr and Mrs Nouveau- Richards, and Jen Teale and her husband Bryan, and makes characteristically wry observations on the courtship behaviour, choice of furnishings, appetites and ambitions of the "merry-tocracy", the "telly-stocracy", and many other inhabitants of castle, Victorian terrace and council flat.
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