Snobs
| Conditie | redelijk [bovenzijde boekblok een aantal kleine lichtbruine vlekjes, inhoud boek goed] |
| Aantal pagina`s | 112 |
| Uitgavejaar | 1982 |
| Uitgegeven door | Oxford University Press |
| Kaft | paarse hardcover met goudopdruk op de rug |
| Stofomslag | ja [deels verschoten] |
| ISBN | 0192141287 |
| Code [intern] | ZOL6 |
Beschrijving boek
Small Oxford Books.
Compiled by Jasper Griffin.
Snobbishness is, as Jasper Griffin puts it, ‘an inexhaustible subject’. We think first of the social climber [‘The nicest Emperor I know is Germany’, murmured a Victorian professor]; but the wide range of the subject takes in the hauteur of the artist, the elitism of the academic [like the don who fell over and resisted the aid of two undergraduates in order to be assisted by a passing MA], the exclusiveness of the religious, and even the hierarchy of diseases among hypochondriacs.
The snob at court, at prayer, in love; sublime snobs of fact and fiction, novel and poem, anecdote and autobiography; angry denunciations and artless self-revelations - from Woolf to Wodehouse, from Petronius to Proust, from Boston to Japan, here is a gallery in which we ourselves may find a place - if not among the snobs, then [who knows?] among the snubbed.
