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Conundrums for the long week-end: England, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Lord Peter Wimsey

2001; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 38; Issue: 09 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.38-4913

1943-5975

Ethan Lewis, Robert Kuhn McGregor,

Political and Economic history of UK and US

In this volume, Robert McGregor and Ethan Lewis explroe how novelist Dorothy L. Sayers used her fictional hero, Sir Peter Wimsey, to comment on, and come to terms with, the social upheaval of the time: world wars, the crumbling of the privileged aristocracy, the rise of democracy, and the expanding struggle of women for equality.