The Shooting Party

Isabel Colegate

ISBN 10: 0241104734 / ISBN 13: 9780241104736

Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, 1980

About this Item

brown cloth bound boards; gilt titling to spine; tight binding; foxing and a one cm tear to top edge of dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 002161

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Shooting Party
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, London
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241104734
• ISBN 13: 9780241104736
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good +
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good +
• Weight: 323 grams

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Synopsis

It is the autumn of 1913, and Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his Oxfordshire estate for the biggest shoot of the season. An army of servants and gamekeepers has rehearsed the intricate age-old ritual of the house and hunt. The gentlemen are falling into the prescribed mode of fellowship and good-humored sporting rivalry. The fashionable ladies are exchanging the latest gossip. Everything about this splendid weekend would seem a perfect affirmation of the privileges and certainties of Edwardian country life.
And yet, as Isabel Colegate so elegantly dramatizes, it is not. The social and moral code of this set is under siege from within and without. Competition beyond the bounds of sportsmanship, revulsion at the slaughter of animals, anger at the inequities of class — these and other forces are about to rise up and challenge the social peace, a peace that can hold only a brief while longer.

About the Author

Isabel Colegate is the acclaimed author of many bestselling books including THE SHOOTING PARTY, THE ORLANDO TRILOGY, THE SUMMER OF THE ROYAL VISIT and most recently, WINTER JOURNEY. Julian Fellowes was an actor for over twenty years before winning the Academy Award for Writing Original in 2001 for Gosford Park . His novel Snobs was published in 2004.