Voltaire's coconuts, or, Anglomania in Europe /

"Voltaire's Coconuts is a wonderfully engaging and witty combination of history and biography which looks at how Europeans have been fascinated by all that it means to be English. Dutch by birth, Buruma came to live in England in 1990 for the third time in his life and noticed a new mood o...

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Autor principal: Buruma, Ian
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Churchill's cigar
  • Voltaire's coconuts
  • Goethe's Shakespeare
  • Fingal's cave
  • The Parkomane
  • Graveyard of the revolution
  • Schooldays
  • A sporting man
  • Wagnerians
  • Jewish cricket
  • The Anglomane who hated England
  • Leslie Howard
  • Dr. Pevsner
  • The man in the tweed coat
  • The last Englishman.