Reading Gladstone by Clayton Windscheffel, Ruth

ISBN: 0230007651

Author: Clayton Windscheffel, Ruth

Condition: new

This interdisciplinary study explores how book culture functioned in the life and milieu of one of the nineteenth century's most complex figures. Spanning the statesman's long life, it presents key case studies illuminating the constant and fundamental interplay between reading, life and politics which characterised Gladstone's world.