{"product_id":"an-english-christmas-paperback","title":"An English Christmas - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Julius Norwich\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'If I could work my will, ' said Scrooge indignantly, 'Every idiot who goes about with \"Merry Christmas\" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis year go carol-singing in the Cotswolds with Laurie Lee or attend church with a grumpy Samuel Pepys. Make plum puddings for bemused French villagers with Elizabeth David; go present shopping with Virginia Woolf or eat far too much with Agatha Christie. Celebrate Christmas at Chatsworth, in the workhouse or marooned in the ice with Shackleton ... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor forty-five years, the arrival of John Julius Norwich's latest \u003ci\u003eChristmas Cracker\u003c\/i\u003e became as essential a part of the Christmas experience as holly and mistletoe. In \u003ci\u003eAn English Christmas\u003c\/i\u003e the late legendary popular historian gathered all the best writing about this strangest and most memorable time of year into one book and his brilliant eye for a story is evident on every page. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVividly evoking all the good things about the festive season, this unexpected anthology is just as entertaining about its darker aspects. Eight-year-old Princess Margaret's thank-you list jostles with moving letters home from the trenches. Sherlock Holmes solves his trickiest case. George Orwell writes about indigestion; Jane Austen about reluctant socialising and Thomas Hardy about the old folk belief that all animals kneel at midnight on 24 December. There are ghost stories, games and bizarre recipes. Diary-entries, recipes and letters sit alongside poems and short stories. \u003ci\u003eAn English Christmas\u003c\/i\u003e could convert any Scrooge into an instant enthusiast.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter National Service, John Julius Norwich (1929-2018) took a degree in French and Russian at New College, Oxford. In 1952 he joined the Foreign Service serving at the embassies in Belgrade and Beirut and with the British Delegation to the Disarmament Conference at Geneva. His publications include \u003ci\u003eThe Normans in Sicily\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eMount Athos\u003c\/i\u003e (with Reresby Sitwell); \u003ci\u003eSahara\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Architecture of Southern England\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eGlyndebourne\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eA History of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e. He was also the author of a three-volume history of the Byzantine Empire. He wrote and presented some thirty historical documentaries for television, and was a regular lecturer on Venice and numerous other subjects. Lord Norwich was chairman of the Venice in Peril Fund, Co-chairman of the World Monuments Fund and a former member of the Executive Committee of the National Trust. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Geographical Society and the Society of Antiquaries, and a Commendatore of the Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana. He was made a CVO in 1993.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 7.72 x 5.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44402735382630,"sku":"9781473665934","price":23.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/SWNJTkJWS2E5czNMRjlFQzRpQ2FyQT09.webp?v=1769683931","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/an-english-christmas-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}