# The Shooting Party

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- Book: [The Shooting Party](https://www.bookquiver.com/isabel-colegate/the-shooting-party) ([The Shooting Party.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/isabel-colegate/the-shooting-party.md))
- Authors: [Isabel Colegate](https://www.bookquiver.com/isabel-colegate)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4196-630-4
- Published: 2007-01-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

It is 1913 - a breath away from the Great War - and Edwardian England is about to vanish into history. An assorted group of men and women gather at Sir Randolph Nettleby's estate for a shooting party. Opulent, adulterous, moving assuredly through the rituals of eating and slaughter, they are an era's dazzlingly obtuse and brilliantly decorative finale. A quiet, elegant meditation on class frustration and the transience of human concern, The Shooting Party is also the inspiration behind one of the great landmarks of popular culture - Downtown Abbey .