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First published in 1982, this book describes a new kind of prison
architecture that developed in the late eighteenth and early
nineteenth centuries. The book concentrates on architecture, but
places it in the context of contemporary penal practice and
contemporary thought. Beginning with an exploration on the
eighteenth-century prisons before reform, the book goes on to
consider two earlier kinds of imprisonment that were modified by
eighteenth-century reformers. The theory and practice of prison
design is covered in detail. The later parts of the book deals with
alliance between architecture and reform, and with the connection
between the utilitarian architecture of the reformed prisons and
academic neo-classicism. The overall aim of the book is to show the
profound change that was being wrought in the nature of
architecture, which was exemplified in the reformed prisons.
Architecture, one emblem of the social order, was now one of its
fundamental instruments.
The third book in the best-selling MILL OF THE FLEA series,
continuing the often farcical and always entertaining adventures of
the author and his wife as they attempt to make a new life in rural
France. Totally unlike any other book in the genre, FRENCH LETTERS
takes the reader on another visit to a remote area of Normandy
where time is of little value and reluctant tractors (and their
drivers) are kick-started on frosty mornings with a tot of
moonshine apple brandy. During another eventful year at the Mill of
the Flea, the author and his wife once again encounter a host of
improbable characters and situations, like the vegetarian couple
who set up home next to a veal farm and an elderly post-mistress
who grows highly illegal pot plants while enticing a colony of
hornets to set up home in her attic -
In this hilarious collection of cautionary tales and anecdotes,
George East discusses all the delights and drawbacks of finding,
buying and restoring French property. HOME & DRY IN FRANCE
follows the early adventures of George and Donella East as they
make every mistake in the (not-then-written) book about how and how
not to buy a second home across the Channel. Tellingly subtitled A
YEAR IN PURGATORY, the book is much more than a listing of all the
awful pitfalls awaiting the innocent abroad: it is the hilarious
and always entertaining account of how a couple set out with a
dream - and came close to turning it in to a nightmare.
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