Edwardians

"Like the novels of Edith Wharton, this book will appeal to many who will fail to catch its point: the intimate picture it provides of a useless and aristocratic society will please lots of people because it is aristocratic without disturbing them because it is useless. Miss Sackville-West herself, however, sees it in both lights with commendable balance. She has killed the thing she loved with neither too much ruthlessness nor too much pity; she has simply told the truth. She deals with a period and class that possessed a certain glamour and charm, and she has let us feel them; but even more forcefully she has let us feel the emptiness, the triviality, the wastefulness that went with them.Vita Sackville-West is the author of 'Edwardians' with ISBN 9780884111405 and ISBN 0884111407.