Author: COBB, RICHARD. Title: Still Life. Sketches from a Tunbridge Wells Childhood.
Description: London: Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press, 1983. 0701126957. Reprint with corrections and including the poem "A Bouquet for Tunbridge Wells" by the author's friend John Hall. "A book about growing up in a prosperous community in the south-east of England in the twenties and thirties. It is a chronicle of largely harmless snobbery and pretensions; of the complicated relations between middle-class people - many of them idle - and of their relations with their servants and an army of shopkeepers..observed by an anxious child between the ages of 4 and 13." Pp.xx/161, double page map of Tunbridge Wells. Blue boards, dustwrapper. VG/VG.
Keywords: Richard Cobb Still Life Sketches Tunbridge Wells Childhood Autobiography South East England Class Snobbery 51905 General Biography
Price: GBP 15.00 = appr. US$ 21.42 Seller: Chilton Books
- Book number: 50425
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