Name: A House in the Country (en Inglés)
SKU: 53393868
Price: 23500.00 CLP
Availability: InStock
Author: Adam, Ruth
ISBN: 9781913527235

portada A House in the Country (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Ruth Adam

Editorial

Dean Street Press

Año

2020

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

205

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

19.8x12.9x1.2 cm

Peso

0.20 kg.

ISBN13

9781913527235

Categorías

Ficción: general y literaria

A House in the Country (en Inglés)

Ruth Adam (Autor) · Dean Street Press · Tapa Blanda

Libro Nuevo Importado

Envío: 12 a 16 días háb.

$ 42.730$ 23.500

-45%

Costos de importación incluídos en el precio ✅

Libro Nuevo

Quedan más de 100 unidades

$ 23.500

Llega entre el 15 Sep y el 23 Sep a Santiago, Región Metropolitana. Seleccionar ubicación

Agregar a lista de deseos

Reseña del libro "A House in the Country (en Inglés)"

"[I]f only we could make the manor subscribe a little bit towards her own upkeep," we fretted.But she was an aristocratic lady on our hands. All ideas for making her work for a living were wrecked on the fact that she was born to be served and not to serve.Six friends have spent the dark, deprived years of World War II fantasising-in air raid shelters and food queues-about an idyllic life in a massive country house. With the coming of peace, they seize on a seductive newspaper ad and take possession of a neglected 33-room manor in Kent, with acres of lavish gardens and an elderly gardener yearning to revive the estate's glory days. But the realities of managing this behemoth soon dawn, including a knife-wielding maid, unruly pigs, and a paying guest who tells harrowing stories of her time in the French Resistance, not to mention the friends' conscientious efforts to offer staff a fair 40-hour work week and paid overtime. And then there's the ghost of an overworked scullery maid . . .Based on the actual experiences of Ruth Adam, her husband, and their friends, A House in the Country is a witty and touching novel about the perils of dreams come true. But it's also a constantly entertaining tale packed with fascinating details of post-war life-and about the realities of life in the kind of house most of us only experience via Downton Abbey.