Author: LUKACS, JOHN
Title: A Thread of Years
Description: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0300071884. Signed by Author; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.5 X 6.5 X 1.4 inches; 481 pages; Signed by the author on the FFEP. "Here Lukacs presents a series of fictionalized vignettes of daily life as experienced by ordinary individuals in the United States (although Lukacs takes us to some European countries as well), each in a year from 1901 to 1969, and each followed by a short dialogue in which the author argues with an interlocutor (who may or may not be himself) over why he has chosen to develop a given scenario in that particular year and what its significance might be. The period represents the life of a single man, K, which Lukacs weaves in and out of the text and through which can be traced the leitmotif of the book: the decline of Anglo-American civilization and of the ideal of the gentleman. The book is primarily a work in the history of manners and mores, a delightful-and poignant-succession of sketches that brings the reader into the inner and often undeclared life of individuals and places them in the larger dramas of historical process in this century.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: 0300071884 Biographies & Memoirs HISTORY
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Title: A Thread of Years
Description: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0300071884. Signed by Author; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.5 X 6.5 X 1.4 inches; 481 pages; Signed by the author on the FFEP. "Here Lukacs presents a series of fictionalized vignettes of daily life as experienced by ordinary individuals in the United States (although Lukacs takes us to some European countries as well), each in a year from 1901 to 1969, and each followed by a short dialogue in which the author argues with an interlocutor (who may or may not be himself) over why he has chosen to develop a given scenario in that particular year and what its significance might be. The period represents the life of a single man, K, which Lukacs weaves in and out of the text and through which can be traced the leitmotif of the book: the decline of Anglo-American civilization and of the ideal of the gentleman. The book is primarily a work in the history of manners and mores, a delightful-and poignant-succession of sketches that brings the reader into the inner and often undeclared life of individuals and places them in the larger dramas of historical process in this century.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: 0300071884 Biographies & Memoirs HISTORY
Price: US$ 22.50 Seller: Ainsworth Books
- Book number: 19401
- Book number: 19401
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