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Brief Lives: Twentieth Century Pen Portraits from the Dictionary of National Biography,Used
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Product Description Drawn from the archives of theDictionary of National Biography, this collection of sharply drawn portraits offers a rich crosssection of the men and women who shaped Britain's identity in the twentieth century. TheDNB is an unrivalled record of modern British thought and achievement,combining critical insight with lively prose, entertaining anecdotes, and private data.Brief Lives contains many of the best articles from the twentiethcentury supplements to theDNB, collected for the first time in a single, affordable volume. Both insightful and witty, and sometimes surprisinglyfrank, these are definitive, diverse, and often intimate biographical sketchesmost were written by people who knew their subjects personally. Here, writers, artists, and musicians rub shoulders with scientists, industrialists, politicians, and soldiers in a unique and highly readable anthology of national endeavour. From Laura Ashley to P.G. Wodehouse, from Tony Hancock to Bertrand Russell,Brief Lives presents no fewer than 150 freshand enlightening snapshots of British life and culture in modern times. Review This collection is designed to entertain as well as to inform and reminds one of Noel Coward's film, Cavalcade: we sit down, turn the pages, and watch the British twentieth century roll by before us.' Contemporary Review About the Author H. C. G. Matthew is Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford. Since 1992 he has been editing theNew Dictionary of National Biography which will replace the present one. His writings on Gladstone, now brought together inGladstone 18091898 (1997), won the 1995 Wolfson Prize forHistory.
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