A satirical study of the English landed gentry, as the Pendyce family's rigid propriety is tested by scandal.
Books mentioned in The Country House (2)
Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes: “the daily reading out of “Tom Brown's School-days””
The Mikado by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan: “At a quarter to nine she listened to Norah playing two waltzes of Chopin's, and a piece called "Serenade du Printemps" by Baff, and to Bee singing "The Mikado," or the "Saucy Girl" From nine to ten thirty she played a game called piquet, which her father had taught her, if she could get anyone with…”