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The English Folly

The Edifice Complex

Gwyn Headley, Wim Meulenkamp
Livre broché | Anglais | Historic England
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If this were a novel, the tales of astounding wealth, sexual perversion, murder, munificence, rape, insanity, brutality, slavery, religious mania, selfishness, snobbery, charity, suicide, generosity, theft, madness, wickedness, failure and eccentricity which unfold in these pages would be too concentrated to allow for the willing suspension of disbelief.

All these sins and virtues, and more, are displayed by the characters in this book, some exhibiting several of them simultaneously.

Folly builders were not as we are. They never built what we now call follies. They built for beauty, utility, improvement; it is only we, struggling after them with our imperfect understanding, who dismiss their prodigious constructions as follies.

Follies can be found around the world, but England is their spiritual home. Having written the definitive books on follies in Great Britain, Benelux and the USA, Headley & Meulenkamp have turned their attention to the folly builders themselves, people so blinded by fashion or driven by some nameless ideology that they expended great fortunes on making their point in brick, stone and flint.

Most follies are simply misunderstood buildings, and this book studies the motives, characters, decisions and delusions of their builders.

If there was madness in their building, fortunately there was no method in it.

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Nombre de pages :
260
Langue:
Anglais
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EAN:
9781789622126
Date de parution :
24-06-20
Format:
Livre broché
Format numérique:
Trade paperback (VS)
Dimensions :
168 mm x 239 mm
Poids :
1097 g

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