Children of the Sun: A Narrative of "Decadence" in England After 1918 - Softcover

Green, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604190019 ISBN 13: 9781604190014

Publisher: Axios Pr, 2008

Synopsis

Children of the Sun is a story of brilliant and later famous young people who deliberately chose decadence as an alternative lifestyle. The setting is England between World War I and World War II. The cast of characters includes Evelyn Waugh, Randolph Churchill, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, and Cecil Beaton among others.

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'Mr Green has written a brilliant book - but, more than that, it is one that helps us to understand how we have come about, and to appreciate the forces and falsities that have shaped and shattered our culture.' John Carey, Literary Review

After the first World War a brilliant and influential generation of young men decisively rejected the responsible and bitter world of their fathers - a world of manliness, fighting, failure, careers and families. Theirs was a creed of decadence and dandyism. Their movement was led by Harold Acton and Brian Howard and included, in all shades of commitment from affiliation to eventual disgust, Evelyn Waugh, Cyril Connolly, Robert Byron, Henry Green, John Betjeman and Anthony Powell; as well as rogues, such as Randolph Churchill, Oswald Mosley, Burgess, Philby and Maclean.

In this engrossing and provocative book Martin Green traces the fate of these gifted 'children of the sun' and explains how they became the most powerful cultural models in the English-speaking world.

'His book is most excellent: original, imaginative, honest.' P.N. Furbank, Listener

'Hugely enjoyable... frequently brilliant.' Dennis Potter, Guardian

About this edition

• Publisher: Axios Pr
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1604190019
• ISBN 13: 9781604190014
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 518