The Young Melbourne & Lord M - Softcover

Cecil, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509854924 ISBN 13: 9781509854929

Publisher: Macmillan Bello, 2017

Synopsis

Modern Library's 100th best non-fiction book of all time, and John F. Kennedy's favourite book.

A masterful biography of the life of Lord Melbourne - Queen Victoria's Prime Minister and devoted mentor, and one of England's most controversial statesmen - whose turbulent marriage to Lady Caroline Lamb was one of the greatest scandals of the era.

A charming, curious and altogether idiosyncratic figure, Melbourne is the perfect subject for a biography and David Cecil - with his elegant, thoughtful style and perfect scholarship - was his ideal biographer. The resulting work is a true classic of the genre and remains the most important and comprehensive account of Britain's most beguiling and individual Prime Minister.

This volume contains the entirety of David Cecil's two seminal biographies of Lord Melbourne - The Young Melbourne and Lord M - in one definitive book.

"A superb work of art" - Harold Nicholson

"A historian of the heart" - L. P. Hartley

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Review:

The most convincing analysis that can ever have been applied to an historical personage . . . (L. P. Hartley Broadsheet)

Brilliant, beautiful, utterly absorbing. (New York Times Book Review)

To convey to subsequent generations the charm of a famous figure of the past is one of the most intractable of all literary operations; Lord David has managed this task with skill. The central portrait is a superb work of art. (Harold Nicholson)

From the Publisher:

. “A vivid, well-linked story.....that builds up a cumulative picture of Melbourne from his spoiled and brilliant youth to his lonely, overclouded old age” Peter Quennell, Spectator

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Bello
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1509854924
• ISBN 13: 9781509854929
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 420