Curzon: The End Of An Epoch
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
At the twilight of the British Empire, one man embodied its grandeur, its arrogance, and its inevitable decline — George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India, and Foreign Secretary of Great Britain. Leonard Mosley's Curzon: The End of an Epoch chronicles the extraordinary life of this towering political figure, tracing his meteoric rise through the echelons of British imperial power to his bitter disappointment at being denied the premiership in 1923, a moment that came to symbolise the twilight of an entire ruling class and the world it had shaped. Mosley writes with the sharp eye of a seasoned journalist and the narrative flair of a gifted biographer, presenting Curzon not merely as a historical relic but as a deeply human figure — brilliant, imperious, and ultimately tragic. The book illuminates the collision between old-world aristocratic certainty and the turbulent democratic forces reshaping twentieth-century Britain, arguing that Curzon's fall was nothing less than the closing chapter of Victorian imperial confidence. Rich in anecdote, political intrigue, and vivid portraiture, this biography leaves one wondering whether greatness and hubris are, in the end, inseparable companions.
Author: Leonard Mosley
Format: Hardback
Published: 1961, Readers Union / Longmans, Green & Co.
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
At the twilight of the British Empire, one man embodied its grandeur, its arrogance, and its inevitable decline — George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India, and Foreign Secretary of Great Britain. Leonard Mosley's Curzon: The End of an Epoch chronicles the extraordinary life of this towering political figure, tracing his meteoric rise through the echelons of British imperial power to his bitter disappointment at being denied the premiership in 1923, a moment that came to symbolise the twilight of an entire ruling class and the world it had shaped. Mosley writes with the sharp eye of a seasoned journalist and the narrative flair of a gifted biographer, presenting Curzon not merely as a historical relic but as a deeply human figure — brilliant, imperious, and ultimately tragic. The book illuminates the collision between old-world aristocratic certainty and the turbulent democratic forces reshaping twentieth-century Britain, arguing that Curzon's fall was nothing less than the closing chapter of Victorian imperial confidence. Rich in anecdote, political intrigue, and vivid portraiture, this biography leaves one wondering whether greatness and hubris are, in the end, inseparable companions.