Mark Girouard
This best-selling book is a beautifully illustrated history of the English country house from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. In it, renowned architectural historian Mark Girouard presents a rare and revealing glimpse of the English upper classesâ€”their public and personal lives, their servants, and their homes.,"A deeply important book, one of the most interesting contributions to architectural history."â€”J. H. Plumb, ,The New York Review of Books,"A survey of country houses through the past five centuries, from a broad range of materials: family archives, literature, plans and photographs.... The book itself is a physical artifact of surpassing beauty which could fit on the grandest table in the houses it describes."â€”David Hackett Fischer, ,The New Republic,"Informative, balanced, knowledgeable, and witty."â€”,The New Yorker,"This enthralling and immensely informative book...tells with wit, scholarship, and lucidity how the country house evolved to meet the needs and reflect the social attitudes of the times."â€”Philip Ziegler, ,The Times,"One of those very useful and very enjoyable books that the learned can seldom write, and the entertaining seldom achieveâ€”clear, detailed, and witty."â€”Angus Wilson, ,The Observer,Winner of the 1978 Duff Cooper Memorial Prize and the W. H. Smith & Son Annual Literary Award for 1979.
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Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History