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Brief Lives
Colin Matthew (Ed.)
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Description for Brief Lives
Paperback. 601pp
Drawn from the archives of "The Dictionary of National Biography" and collected here in a single volume, "Brief Lives" consists of 150 sharply drawn profiles of the men and women who have helped shape British national life in the 20th century. From Harry Lauder to Jacqueline du Pre, W.H. Auden to the Duchess of Windsor, these profiles combine insight with prose, anecdote with private information. Discover Kingley Amis on Sir John Betjeman; Michael Kitson on Sir Anthony Blunt; Stephen Spender on W.H. Auden; Richard Ellmann on T.S. Eliot; Yehudi Menuhin on Jacqueline du Pre; Alan Bennett on Russell Harty; Donald ... Read more
Drawn from the archives of "The Dictionary of National Biography" and collected here in a single volume, "Brief Lives" consists of 150 sharply drawn profiles of the men and women who have helped shape British national life in the 20th century. From Harry Lauder to Jacqueline du Pre, W.H. Auden to the Duchess of Windsor, these profiles combine insight with prose, anecdote with private information. Discover Kingley Amis on Sir John Betjeman; Michael Kitson on Sir Anthony Blunt; Stephen Spender on W.H. Auden; Richard Ellmann on T.S. Eliot; Yehudi Menuhin on Jacqueline du Pre; Alan Bennett on Russell Harty; Donald ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Oxford Paperbacks Oxford
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Number of Pages
620
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780192800893
SKU
KLN0009595
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Ref
99-1
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