Four Portraits: Studies Of The 18Th Century
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some chipping and edge wear; teal/green original dust jacket intact but showing age. Page Condition: Yellowed with tanning consistent with age. Markings: previous owner. Binding: Appears intact and firm.
A work of literary biography and cultural history, Four Portraits: Studies of the 18th Century presents intimate and richly drawn profiles of four seminal figures from eighteenth-century Britain. Peter Quennell, one of the twentieth century's most elegant prose stylists, brings his trademark wit and erudition to bear as he chronicles the lives, minds, and milieu of Boswell, Gibbon, Sterne, and Wilkes. Each portrait illuminates not just the individual but the vibrant, contradictory age that shaped them — an era of intellectual daring, social spectacle, and moral complexity. Written with the authority of a scholar and the grace of a literary artist, the book argues that these four men, each in his own way, embody the restless spirit of Georgian England. It remains an essential and deeply pleasurable study of an age that continues to fascinate.
Author: Peter Quennell
Format: Hardback
Published: 1947, The Reprint Society
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some chipping and edge wear; teal/green original dust jacket intact but showing age. Page Condition: Yellowed with tanning consistent with age. Markings: previous owner. Binding: Appears intact and firm.
A work of literary biography and cultural history, Four Portraits: Studies of the 18th Century presents intimate and richly drawn profiles of four seminal figures from eighteenth-century Britain. Peter Quennell, one of the twentieth century's most elegant prose stylists, brings his trademark wit and erudition to bear as he chronicles the lives, minds, and milieu of Boswell, Gibbon, Sterne, and Wilkes. Each portrait illuminates not just the individual but the vibrant, contradictory age that shaped them — an era of intellectual daring, social spectacle, and moral complexity. Written with the authority of a scholar and the grace of a literary artist, the book argues that these four men, each in his own way, embody the restless spirit of Georgian England. It remains an essential and deeply pleasurable study of an age that continues to fascinate.