Piers Brendon

Introduction Of all the details which scandalized respectable readers of Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians possibly the most infamous related to the venerable figure of Dr Arnold. The eminence of the celebrated Headmaster of Rugby School was surely beyond question. When his own son, William...

Kiadói foltos, védőborító szakadt, illetve a könyvtáblára leragasztották. Astute, witty, and mercifully brief, Eminent Edwardians is a portrait of an age. Piers Brendon reveals the essence of the Edwardian era in biographical sketches of four of its most famous figures: Arthur Balfour,...