Once Upon a Time World - Jonathan Miles - eBook - PDF - Non Fiction Books

As fascinating in its historical sweep as its devotion to gossip and misbehaviour, Once Upon a Time World is a delirious chronicle of excess. A phenomenal work of research across hundreds of histories, biographies, memoirs and letters. It shifts with masterly control across a dozen arenas from high art to low scandal, taking in fashion, sport, ballet, and motor racing. It’s utterly absorbing, indelicate to a shocking degree, and I devoured every page of it.