by Vita Sackville-West · Grasset & Fasquelle · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246429326
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«Au temps du roi Édouard» is the historical novel by Vita Sackville-West, published by Grasset & Fasquelle in paperback (270 pages, in French).
The novel is set in Edwardian England and shows the nobility and upper classes freeing themselves from Victorian rigidity. Beneath etiquette and appearances lie hidden passions, adulteries, and hypocrisy. Young Sebastián, a duke and heir, seeks his place in that decadent world and wonders whether love can prevail over corruption.
French edition published in 1991 in the Les Cahiers Rouges collection; the original work, The Edwardians, appeared in 1930.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the portrayal of the English aristocracy and society before the First World War.
Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH, usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer.
