: Various Authors
: Through a Glass Lightly Confession of a Reluctant Water Drinker
: Pushkin Press
: 9781782273165
: 1
: CHF 5.20
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: Comic, Cartoon, Humor, Satire
: English
: 300
: Wasserzeichen
: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
: ePUB
'A drinker's crown of sorrow is remembering wetter days'The love of drinking was well-developed in the nineteenth-century Englishman. With chapters on port, claret, sherry, champagne, Burgundy, Madeira, wine cellars, glasses and butlers, Through a Glass Lightly is a love letter to wine and everything that came with it. But the passionate tale has a sorry ending: in the final two chapters, the author develops gout and has to become a teetotaller in order to be able to take out life insurance.Through a Glass Lightly is part of 'Found on the Shelves', published with The London Library. The books in this series have been chosen to give a fascinating insight into the treasures that can be found while browsing in The London Library. Now celebrating its 175th anniversary, with over 17 miles of shelving and more than a million books, The London Library has become an unrivalled archive of the modes, manners and thoughts of each generation which has helped to form it.

Various Authors