Changes to The Anglo Files by Sarah Lyall

Shelfari edited the subjects of The Anglo Files 2 weeks ago.

Added the subject: Subjects > History > Historical Study > Social History
Added the subject: Subjects > History > Europe > England
Added the subject: Subjects > Nonfiction > Politics
Added the subject: Subjects > History > World

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Shelfari edited the classification of The Anglo Files Tuesday, January 19 2010.

changed the Dewey Classification: 941.086

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Ulrich edited the books like this book of The Anglo Files Sunday, November 29 2009.

Added Notes from a Small Island
Added I'm a Stranger Here Myself

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Timothy Gray approved Ulrich’s request to change the title of The Anglo Files Saturday, November 7 2009.

Title: The Anglo ~~Files: A Field Guide to the British~~Files
Subtitle: A Field Guide to the British ( see Timothy Gray’s edits | report abuse )

Ulrich changed the title of The Anglo Files Friday, November 6 2009.

Title: The Anglo ~~Files: A Field Guide to the British~~Files
Subtitle: A Field Guide to the British Timothy Gray approved this request. ( see Ulrich’s edits | report abuse )

Shelfari edited the description of The Anglo Files Monday, August 3 2009.

Dispatches from the new Britain: a slyly funny and compulsively readable portrait of a nation finally refurbished for the twenty-first century. Sarah Lyall, a reporter for the New York Times , moved to London in the mid-1990s and soon became known for her amusing and incisive dispatches on her adopted country. As she came to terms with its eccentric inhabitants (the English husband who never turned on the lights, the legislators who behaved like drunken frat boys, the hedgehog lovers, the people who extracted their own teeth), she found that she had a ringside seat at a singular transitional era in British life. The roller-coaster decade of Tony Blair's New Labor government was an increasingly materialistic time when old-world symbols of aristocratic privilege and stiff-upper-lip sensibility collided with modern consumerism, overwrought emotion, and a new (but still unsuccessful) effort to make the trains run on time. Appearing a half-century after Nancy Mitford's classic Noblesse Oblige , Lyall's book is a brilliantly witty account of twenty-first-century Britain that will be recognized as a contemporary classic.

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Shelfari edited the contributors of The Anglo Files Saturday, July 25 2009.

Added a contributor: Sarah Lyall: (Primary Author)

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The Anglo Files (edit title)

A Field Guide to the British

by Sarah Lyall (Author) (edit contributors)