The Age of Elegance 1812 - 1822 - Arthur Bryant

Aangeboden: The Age of Elegance 1812 - 1822 - Arthur Bryant Prijs: T.e.a.b. The Age of Elegance is the concluding volume of Sir Arthur Bryant's trilogy about Britain in the Napoleonic wars, following on from The Age of Endurance and The Years of Victory. It covers an astonishing decade: the greatest of all English military victories in the Iberian Peninsular and at Waterloo, but also as impressive a collection of intellectual and artistic figures as we have ever mustered. In no particular order, Cobbett, Keats, Byron, Shelley, Constable, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Blake, Austen, Ricardo and Malthus were among those who can be quoted as contemporaries. Not to mention a mad king, his fat and detested Regent son ("The fourth of the fools and oppressors called George" as Byron described him) and his fat and lascivious (and very popular) wife, Caroline. Add some of the greatest disorders and repressions of our history, both to be found at "Peterloo", and you hav e the widest possible canvas for the historian. The Age of Extremes might have been a better title. Jaar: 1950 Editie: eerste druk Uitgever: Collins 450 p. Gebonden, hard linnen kaft In goede staat, kaft iets verkleurd Porto k.k. *Bekijk ook onze andere advertenties! *Klik ook eens de fotogalerij aan i.p.v. de advertentielijst

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