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Last Days in Old Europe

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Last Days in Old Europe

By Richard Bassett

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About the book

'With these vivid, wistful memoirs, he joins the great chroniclers of Europe - the Prousts, Zweigs, Lampedusas, Leigh-Fermors and Bassanis - and shows how some of the things those writers loved persisted as late as 1989.' (Economist)In 1979 Richard Bassett set out on a series of adventures and encounters in central Europe which allowed him to savour the last embers of the cosmopolitan old Hapsburg lands and gave him a ringside seat at the fall of another ancien regime, that of communist rule. Fr...Show more

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ISBN

9780241014868

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2019

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Last Days in Old Europe

Format

Hardcover

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