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Gladstone
Engelsk Paperback
Gladstone
Engelsk Paperback

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Winner of the Whitbread Biography of the Year.

William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British life. He spent sixty-three of his eighty-nine years in the House of Commons and was prime minister four times, a unique accomplishment. From his critical role in the formation of the Liberal Party to his preoccupation with the cause of Irish Home Rule, he was a commanding politician and statesman nonpareil. But Gladstone the man was much more: a classical scholar, a wide-ranging author, a vociferous participant in all the great theological debates of the day, a voracious reader, and an avid walker who chopped down trees for recreation. He was also a man obsessed with the idea of his own sinfulness, prone to self-flagellation and persistent in the practice of accosting prostitutes on the street and attempting to persuade them of the errors of their ways.

Gladstone, by historian and eminent politician Roy Jenkins, is a full and deep portrait of a complicated man, offering a sweeping picture of a tumultuous century in British history, and is also a brilliant example of the biographer''s art.



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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
720
ISBN-13:
9781509868292
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
1509868291
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Udg. Dato:
4 okt 2018
Længde:
51mm
Bredde:
196mm
Højde:
130mm
Forlag:
Pan Macmillan
Oplagsdato:
4 okt 2018
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