The Days Before Yesterday - Couverture souple

Hamilton, Frederic Lord

9781444462043: The Days Before Yesterday

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1444462040 ISBN 13 : 9781444462043

Editeur : Aeterna, 2026

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Frederic Lord Hamilton’s The Days Before Yesterday is a lively, affectionate, and richly anecdotal memoir of a vanished Victorian and Edwardian world. Moving from childhood terrors, schooldays, and aristocratic households to London society, Dublin Castle, Paris, Germany, Canada, India, and the Foreign Office, Hamilton recalls a life spent among remarkable people, strange customs, public events, and private absurdities. Here are glimpses of Queen Victoria, Disraeli, Gladstone, Landseer, Jenny Lind, Irish judges, French provincials, German hosts, Canadian winter carnivals, Indian durbars, and the great machinery of empire seen from close quarters. Yet the book’s charm lies not only in famous names, but in its comic eye for human oddity: eccentric teachers, theatrical mishaps, over-elaborate ceremonies, practical jokes, family legends, and the small habits that make an age live again. Witty, observant, and nostalgic without being dull, The Days Before Yesterday offers readers a vivid journey through drawing rooms, schools, embassies, castles, monasteries, parliaments, ships, and colonial capitals. It is both personal reminiscence and social history: a warm farewell to manners, places, and characters already slipping into memory.

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