“It must feel wonderfully strange when, like Manette, one stands there, the only witness to a vanished world.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
With the poetry of plain speaking, Shannon Hitchcock recreates the daily drama of a vanished world. — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
I grew up in the 1920s and 1930s in a nouveau riche world, where money was spent wildly, and I'm still living… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
The novelist's obligation to remake the sensuous texture of a vanished world is also the historian's. The strongest fiction writers often do… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
