Brief Lives: Twentieth Century Pen Portraits from the Dictionary of National Biography
- List Price: $16.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publish date: 11/01/1999
Description:
Drawn from the archives of the Dictionary of National Biography, this collection of sharply drawn portraits offers a rich cross-section of the men and women who shaped Britain's identity in the twentieth century. The DNB 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 twentieth-century supplements to the DNB, collected for the first time in a single, affordable volume.
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