A major new work by one of Britain's leading journalists and most acclaimed historians
Simon Heffer was born in 1960. He read English at Cambridge and
took a PhD in modern history at that university. His previous books
include- Moral Desperado- A Life of Thomas Carlyle, Like
the Roman- The Life of Enoch Powell, Power and Place- The
Political Consequences of King Edward VII, Nor Shall My
Sword- The Reinvention of England, Vaughan Williams,
Strictly English, A Short History of Power, Simply
English and High Minds- The Victorians and the Birth of
Modern Britain. In a thirty-year career in Fleet Street, he has
held senior editorial positions on The Daily Telegraph and
The Spectator, and is now a columnist for The Daily
Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.
A riveting account of the pre-First World War years . . . A
gloriously rich history . . . Balanced and judicious . . . The
Age of Decadence is an enormously impressive and enjoyable
read. -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times *
Heffer has given us a magnificent account of a less than
magnificent epoch . . . Vital and energetic. -- Jonathan Meades *
Literary Review *
Magisterial. -- Sam Leith * Spectator *
The Age of Decadence is an impressively well-constructed
book . . . Heffer weaves his wonderfully diverse strands of inquiry
into a devastating critique of prewar Britain . . . Heffer's
criticism of unbridled traditionalism is devastating and
convincing. It's also disturbingly relevant to the world in
which we live. * The Times *
Mr Heffer combines a scholar's command of the primary literature
with a journalist's eye for detail. He writes with admirable
sensitivity about both music and literature: a better account
of Elgar or Arnold Bennett would be hard to find. He does a
brilliant job of exposing the rot beneath the glittering surface of
late Victorian and Edwardian Britain . . . He writes with such
exuberance - indeed with such Edwardian swagger - that he leaves
the reader looking forward to his next volume. * The Economist
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