Author : J. B. Priestley
Release : 2002-01-31
Genre : Great Britain
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The Prince of Pleasure and His Regency 1811-20 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Prince of Pleasure and His Regency 1811-20 write by J. B. Priestley. This book was released on 2002-01-31. The Prince of Pleasure and His Regency 1811-20 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Regency Period is perhaps the most romantic of British history. It was an age which swung between extremes of elegance and refinement, and depths of sodden brutality. The central figure is the Prince Regent, Prinny, and though he sometimes appears as a gigantic spoilt child, he was famously good company and a notable patron of the arts. The author portrays the personalities of the giants of the romantic age - Byron, Shelley, Sheridan, Wordsworth, Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott; Davy Faraday and Macadam; Turner, Constable and Cotman - to name a few. It was an age of extravagance; an age marked by great eccentricities and prodigous jokes; the luddite riots; the Battles of Waterloo and Peterloo; the first waltzes and the first locomotives.