Ebook {Epub PDF} Melbourne: The Young Melbourne / Lord M by David Cecil

Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil, CH (9 April – 1 January ) was a British biographer, historian, and scholar. He held the style of "Lord" by courtesy, as a . David Cecil's beautifully written biography of Charles Lamb, who became Lord Melbourne, is a joy to read, as well as being very informative. Political biographies don't necessarily have great longevity - all too often another writer comes along with either new evidence or a different viewpoint - yet 'The Young Melbourne Lord Melbourne', written in , has undoubtedly stood the test of time/5(81). Buy a cheap copy of The Young Melbourne Lord M book by David Cecil. Lord Melbourne was Prime Minister from and was a kind friend and guide to the young Victoria on her accession. Earlier he was married to Lady Caroline Free shipping over $/5(2).

David Cecil's classic biographies The Young Melbourne (and the Story of his Marriage with Lady Caroline Lamb) and Lord M (or The Later Life of Lord Melbourne) are here published in a single volume, as the author had always intended. Melbourne, who lived from , was one of the most curious and charming personalities in England's history. 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. In fact, Melbourne's life fell rather neatly into two parts, as reflected in the two halves of Cecil's work—The Young Melbourne and the Story of His Marriage with Caroline Lamb, published in , and Lord M, or the Later Life of Lord Melbourne, which appeared in

Listed as number in Modern Library's list of best non-fiction books, this volume consists of Young Melbourne written in and Lord M published in It is political biography that manages to let the reader get fully involved with the person before he becomes a public figure. Buy a cheap copy of The Young Melbourne Lord M book by David Cecil. Lord Melbourne was Prime Minister from and was a kind friend and guide to the young Victoria on her accession. Earlier he was married to Lady Caroline Free shipping over $ 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.