Class

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Random House, Dec 23, 2010 - Social Science - 368 pages

CLASS IS DEAD!
Or so everyone claims. Who better to refute this than Jilly Cooper!

Describing herself as 'upper middle class', Jilly claims that snobbery is very much alive and thriving! Meet her hilarious characters! People like Harry Stow-Crat, Mr and Mrs Nouveau-Richards, Samantha and Gideon Upward, and Jen Teale and her husband Brian. Roar with laughter at her horribly unfair observations on their everyday pretensions - their sexual courtships, choice of furnishings, clothes, education, food, careers and ambitions...

For they will all remind you of people that you know!

 

Selected pages

Contents

Acknowledgements
7
The Classes
21
Children
47
The Nanny
73
University
115
Sex and Marriage
159
Homosexuality
197
Geography
233
Food
255
Drink
269
Voices
293
Television
315
Dogs
335
Religion
351

Other editions - View all

Class: A View from Middle England
Jilly Cooper
Snippet view - 1979
Class: A View from Middle England
Jilly Cooper
No preview available - 1999
Class
Jilly Cooper
No preview available - 1997
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Common terms and phrases

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About the author (2010)

Jilly Cooper is a journalist, author and media superstar. The author of many number one bestselling books, she lives in Gloucestershire.

She has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities of Gloucestershire and Anglia Ruskin, and won the inaugural Comedy Women in Print lifetime achievement award in 2019. She was also appointed DBE in 2024 for services to literature and charity.

Bibliographic information

TitleClass
AuthorJilly Cooper
Editionreprint, revised
PublisherRandom House, 2010
ISBN1409032000, 9781409032007
Length368 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Humor / General
Humor / Topic / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
  
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