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Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Book of Snobs written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D.J. Taylor
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 1472123956
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book The New Book of Snobs written by D.J. Taylor and published by Constable. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Hugely enjoyable' AN Wilson, Sunday Times 'Thoughtful, entertaining and enjoyable' Michael Gove, Book of the Week, The Times Inspired by William Makepeace Thackeray, the first great analyst of snobbery, and his trail-blazing The Book of Snobs (1848), D. J. Taylor brings us a field guide to the modern snob. Short of calling someone a racist or a paedophile, one of the worst charges you can lay at anybody's door in the early twenty-first century is to suggest that they happen to be a snob. But what constitutes snobbishness? Who are the snobs and where are they to be found? Are you a snob? Am I? What are the distinguishing marks? Snobbery is, in fact, one of the keys to contemporary British life, as vital to the backstreet family on benefits as the proprietor of the grandest stately home, and an essential element of their view of who of they are and what the world might be thought to owe them. The New Book of Snobs will take a marked interest in language, the vocabulary of snobbery - as exemplified in the 'U' and 'Non U' controversy of the 1950s - being a particular field in which the phenomenon consistently makes its presence felt, and alternate social analysis with sketches of groups and individuals on the Thackerayan principle. Prepare to meet the Political Snob, the City Snob, the Technology Snob, the Property Snob, the Rural Snob, the Literary Snob, the Working-class Snob, the Sporting Snob, the Popular Cultural Snob and the Food Snob.
Author : Julian Fellowes
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9781429904186
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Snobs written by Julian Fellowes and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2006-01-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the Emmy-Award winning Downton Abbey ... "The English, of all classes as it happens, are addicted to exclusivity. Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them." The best comedies of manners are often deceptively simple, seamlessly blending social critique with character and story. In his superbly observed first novel, Julian Fellowes, winner of an Academy Award for his original screenplay of Gosford Park, brings us an insider's look at a contemporary England that is still not as classless as is popularly supposed. Edith Lavery, an English blonde with large eyes and nice manners, is the daughter of a moderately successful accountant and his social-climbing wife. While visiting his parents' stately home as a paying guest, Edith meets Charles, Earl of Broughton, and heir to the Marquess of Uckfield, who runs the family estates in East Sussex and Norfolk. To the gossip columns he is one of the most eligible young aristocrats around. When he proposes. Edith accepts. But is she really in love with Charles? Or with his title, his position, and all that goes with it? One inescapable part of life at Broughton Hall is Charles's mother, the shrewd Lady Uckfield, known to her friends as "Googie" and described by the narrator---an actor who moves comfortably among the upper classes while chronicling their foibles---"as the most socially expert individual I have ever known at all well. She combined a watchmaker's eye for detail with a madam's knowledge of the world." Lady Uckfield is convinced that Edith is more interested in becoming a countess than in being a good wife to her son. And when a television company, complete with a gorgeous leading man, descends on Broughton Hall to film a period drama, "Googie's" worst fears seem fully justified. In Snobs, a wickedly astute portrait of the intersecting worlds of aristocrats and actors, Julian Fellowes establishes himself as an irresistible storyteller and a deliciously witty chronicler of modern manners.
Author : Joseph Epstein
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547561644
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Snobbery written by Joseph Epstein and published by HMH. This book was released on 2003-07-07 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Observations on the many ways we manage to look down on others, from “a writer who can make you laugh out loud on every third page” (The New York Times Book Review). Snobs are everywhere. At the gym, at work, at school, and sometimes even lurking in your own home. But how did we, as a culture, get this way? With dishy detail, Joseph Epstein skewers all manner of elitism as he examines how snobbery works, where it thrives, and the pitfalls and perils in thinking you’re better than anyone else. Offering arch observations on the new footholds of snobbery, including food, fashion, high-achieving children, schools, politics, being with-it—whatever “it” is—name-dropping, and much more, Epstein explores the shallows and depths of a concept that has become part of our everyday lives . . . for better or worse. “Smart, witty, perceptive . . . and almost always—in the best sense of the word—entertaining,” Snobbery provides the ultimate social commentary on arrogance in America (TheWashington Post Book World). It’s a book you shouldn’t be caught dead without.
Author : Debbie and Dennis Jacobson
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1477205810
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (772 download)
Download or read book The Scuba Snobs' Guide to Diving Etiquette written by Debbie and Dennis Jacobson and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because there Is a right way to dive! The Scuba Snobs remain avid and active Divers, and have more than 24 years of recreational diving experience. After publication of the original The Scuba Snobs’ Guide to Diving Etiquette, they embarked upon a year of diving, public appearances, on line interaction with readers, and now expand their “rules” for divers with The Scuba Snobs’ Guide to Diving Etiquette, Book 2. Have fun reading both books, and visit the Scuba Snobs at their website, scubasnobs.com.
Author : Julian Fellowes
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 9781250119612
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)
Download or read book Society Rules written by Julian Fellowes and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The English, of all classes as it happens, are addicted to exclusivity. Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them." In Snobs, Charles, heir to the Marquess of Uckfield, is one of the most eligible young aristocrats in England—at least according to the gossip columns. And when he proposes to Edith Lavery, the blonde-haired, blue-eyed daughter of a moderately successful accountant and social-climbing mother, she accepts. But is she really in love with Charles? Or with his title, position, and all its accompanying advantages? In Past Imperfect, our narrator is summoned to the deathbed of the extravagantly wealthy Damian Baxter—a friend-turned-enemy from their raucus Cambridge days—who begs his old acquaintance for help tracking down the author of an anonymous letter claiming Baxter as the father of her child. The search takes the narrator back to the extraordinary world of swinging London, where aristocratic parents schemed to find suitable matches for their daughters while someone snuck hash into the brownies at a ball at Madame Tussaud's. It was a time when everything seemed to be changing—and not always quite as expected. These two irresistible novels immerse us in a contemporary England governed by secrets, status and upheaval.
Author : Sean Latham
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801488412
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (884 download)
Download or read book "Am I a Snob?" written by Sean Latham and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a "great divide" between highbrow and mass cultures? Are modernist novels for, by, and about snobs? What might Lord Peter Wimsey, Mrs. Dalloway, and Stephen Dedalus have to say to one another?Sean Latham's appealingly written book "Am I a Snob?" traces the evolution of the figure of the snob through the works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Dorothy Sayers. Each of these writers played a distinctive role in the transformation of the literary snob from a vulgar social climber into a master of taste. In the process, some novelists and their works became emblems of sophistication, treated as if they were somehow apart from or above the fiction of the popular marketplace, while others found a popular audience. Latham argues that both coterie writers like Joyce and popular novelists like Sayers struggled desperately to combat their own pretensions. By portraying snobs in their novels, they attempted to critique and even transform the cultural and economic institutions that they felt isolated them from the broad readership they desired.Latham regards the snobbery that emerged from and still clings to modernism not as an unfortunate by-product of aesthetic innovation, but as an ongoing problem of cultural production. Drawing on the tools and insights of literary sociology and cultural studies, he traces the nineteenth-century origins of the "snob," then explores the ways in which modernist authors developed their own snobbery as a means of coming to critical consciousness regarding the connections among social, economic, and cultural capital. The result, Latham asserts, is a modernism directly engaged with the cultural marketplace yet deeply conflicted about the terms of its success.
Author : Julian Fellowes
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429929170
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Past Imperfect written by Julian Fellowes and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the Emmy Award-winning Downton Abbey... "Damian Baxter was a friend of mine at Cambridge. We met around the time when I was doing the Season at the end of the Sixties. I introduced him to some of the girls. They took him up, and we ran about together in London for a while...." Nearly forty years later, the narrator hates Damian Baxter and would gladly forget their disastrous last encounter. But if it is pleasant to hear from an old friend, it is more interesting to hear from an old enemy, and so he accepts an invitation from the rich and dying Damian, who begs him to track down the past girlfriend whose anonymous letter claimed he had fathered a child during that ruinous debutante season. The search takes the narrator back to the extraordinary world of swinging London, where aristocratic parents schemed to find suitable matches for their daughters while someone was putting hash in the brownies at a ball at Madame Tussaud's. It was a time when everything seemed to be changing—and it was, but not always quite as expected. Past Imperfect is Julian Fellowes at his best--a novel of secrets, status, and a world in upheaval.
Author : Julian Fellowes
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9781780220239
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Snobs and Past Imperfect written by Julian Fellowes and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two SUNDAY TIMES bestsellers in one from the creator of DOWNTON ABBEY. SNOBS Edith Lavery, the attractive only child of a middle-class accountant, leaves behind her dull job when she manages to bag one of the most eligible bachelors in town. But is life amongst the aristocracy really all that it seems...' PAST IMPERFECT Damian Baxter is very, very rich. But he has one concern: who should inherit his fortune. A letter from an ex-girlfriend suggests Damian may have fathered a child, but the letter is anonymous. Finding the truth will not be easy - and the only man who can help is Damian's sworn enemy...
Author : BrittanyJacques
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684351316
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (843 download)
Download or read book How to Be a Vodka Snob written by BrittanyJacques and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know your Moscow Mule from your White Russian? Your Stoli from your Belvedere? Micron filtering from charcoal filtering? No matter how you take your vodka, it is time to embrace your inner vodka snob. How to Be a Vodka Snob is the perfect read for drinking novices as well as connoisseurs, beginning with vodka's humble history as a medicinal liquor and accompanying it on its rise to stardom with high-end vodka appreciators and mixologists. Pairing fascinating stories, tidbits, and recipes with a step-by-step guide to becoming a vodka snob, Brittany Jacques offers a beginner's guide to proper glassware, equipment needed for the home bar, and the all-important vodka lingo. Ever wanted to order a filthy martini, stirred, extra wet? How to Be a Vodka Snob is the perfect book for you. How to be a Vodka Snob features more than 50 recipes with everything from James Bond's favorite Martini to Dwight's Beets Over Rocks from The Office, as well as accompanying nibbles and side dishes. With Brittany Jacques as your guide, your journey to becoming a vodka snob starts here.
Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472115273
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (152 download)
Download or read book The Snobs of England written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical edition of two sharply satirical works
Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Book of Snobs written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John R. Coyne
Publisher : New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Impudent Snobs written by John R. Coyne and published by New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House. This book was released on 1972 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leonard S. Bernstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781569802618
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Official Guide to Wine Snobbery written by Leonard S. Bernstein and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as the most entertaining reference to wine culture, The Official Guide to Wine Snobbery arms readers with valuable knowledge of wine etiquette, while identifying those senseless acts of snobbery that often lead to embarrassing situations. Included in this book are tips for discreet palate cleansing, a list of in' and 'out' wines and the very surprising outcome of a blind tasting in which California vintages proved superior to some highly regarded French labels.'
Author : David Skelton
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785906585
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (859 download)
Download or read book The New Snobbery written by David Skelton and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Timely, insightful and impassioned." – Tim Shipman "David Skelton is, once again, excellent ... This brilliant book is essential reading." – Nick Timothy "One of our most prescient and empathetic social and political writers. Highly recommended." – Jason Cowley "Skelton gets it ... A timely must-read which speaks to head and heart." – Penny Mordaunt MP "Vital ... Skelton makes a compelling case." – Jon Cruddas MP *** An insidious snobbery has taken root in parts of progressive Britain. Working-class voters have flexed their political muscles and helped to change the direction of the country, but in doing so they have been met with disdain and even abuse from elites in politics, culture and business. At election time, we hear a lot about 'levelling up the Red Wall'. But what can actually be done to meet the very real concerns of the 'left behind' in the UK's post-industrial towns? In these once vibrant hubs of progress, working-class voters now face the prospect of being minimised, marginalised and abandoned. In this new updated edition of his rousing polemic, David Skelton explores the roots and reality of this new snobbery, calling for an end to the divisive culture war and the creation of a new politics of the common good, empowering workers, remaking the economy and placing communities centre stage. Above all, he argues that we now have a once-in-a-century opportunity to bring about permanent change.
Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Second Book of Snobs written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vachel Lindsay
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Golden Book of Springfield written by Vachel Lindsay and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Golden Book of Springfield" by Vachel Lindsay. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
