The World of Downton Abbey
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781250006349 (9781250006349)
ASIN: 1250006341
Publish date: 2011-12-06
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pages no: 303
Edition language: English
Category:
Reference,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Media Tie In,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
Art,
Culture,
Film,
Photography,
Pop Culture,
Tv,
Fiction
A very informative and pretty thorough look at the world - social, political, day-to-day details and routines - of England, both among the peerage and the lower classes during the time period of the first two seasons/series of the show, roughly 1912 - 1920. I especially liked the background informat...
To watch Downton Abbey is to watch a way of life slowly die with an epic story and it kind of reminds me of Gone with the Wind. The best part of the TV show is the personal look into the servants’ and nobilities’ lives from the early 1900s and how they interacted with each other. You really feel t...
This is a gorgeous book full of beautiful color photographs so I can't imagine it on a small black and white eReader screen. It doesn't recount the plot line, but what faithful viewer needs that? Instead it gives background information about individual characters that isn't explicitly spelled out in...