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Book Description Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR001526936
Book Description Hardback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Seller Inventory # GOR001957834
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: GOOD. 2000-10-12. Chatto and Windus. Hardcover. GOOD DJ good. 9x6.5. Seller Inventory # 2085343
Book Description Condition: Fair. Buy with confidence! Book is in acceptable condition with wear to the pages, binding, and some marks within 1. Seller Inventory # bk1856192512xvz189zvxacp
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Used: Acceptable. Condition good with dust jacket. ref ZKVQ Review Following in the footsteps of distinguished books such as Peter Laslett's The World We Have Lost and Julian Barnes' England, England, Roger Scruton's England: An Elegy is a deeply personal lament for the disappearance of the England of his childhood. "Having been famous for their stoicism, their decorum, their honesty, their gentleness and their sexual puritanism, the English now subsist in a society in which those qualities are no longer honoured, a society of people who regard long-term loyalties with cynicism, and whose response to misfortune is to look around for someone to sue". The result is a deeply personal account of Scruton's own life, his complex relationship with his disillusioned socialist father, who "loved what was local, collegial and attached to the land", and a wide-ranging historical and philosophical meditation on English character, community, religion, law, society, government, culture and the countryside. England: An Elegy is an impassioned defence of monarchy, religion and home, against the ^"anti-English hullabaloo" that Scruton detects in a climate of devolution and European federalism. He writes with his typically intelligent and sceptical conservatism, but this is a deeply pessimistic and elitist book, that will only delight right-wing Eurosceptics. The book has a tendency to demolish Marxist views on nationhood through rhetoric rather than evidence, and its historical scope is simply too large and vague to offer a serious account of Englishness as a social and political phenomenon. Scruton offers no answers to England's dilemmas, arguing simply to be allowed to mourn the death of England, and that "to describe something as dead is not to call for its resurrection". Many readers might find that England: An Elegy is a fitting epitaph to a world that we are glad to have lost, if it ever really existed. --Jerry Brotton. Seller Inventory # 35407
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1856192512. 2000, clean copy, with dustjacket, feint toning to pages, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981. Seller Inventory # 160094
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good +. First Edition. First Edition (London, 2000). No markings, annotations, and inscriptions. The page block is conspicuously tanned. Unclipped dust jacket. Shelf creasing to the spine head and the top edges and corners, else no tears or conspicuous damage. (Now in a protective plastic cover.) has minor rubbing to the top edges, but no conspicuous damage. Grey cloth with bright silver titling to the spine. Negligible bevelling to the corners, a gentle press to the spine ends, else clean and fine. ix, 270pp. Seller Inventory # 2402
Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. First Edition. VG+/VG+. 8vo. original black boards gilt (a little rubbed & bumped) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, a little rubbed & nicked); pp. 224. A very good copy of his first novel. Seller Inventory # 028839
Book Description 1st edition. Signed copy. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; ix, 270p. ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; National characteristics, English. Civilization. Manners and customs. England Social life and customs. England Civilization. England Social life and customs. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 405367
Book Description 1st edition. Signed copy. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; ix, 270p. ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; National characteristics, English. Civilization. Manners and customs. England Social life and customs. England Civilization. England Social life and customs. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 405367