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Synopsis
Definitive, concise, and very interesting...
From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time.
Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
The Very Interesting People series includes the following titles:
1.William Shakespeare by Peter Holland
- George Eliot by Rosemary Ashton
- Charles Dickens by Michael Slater
- Charles Darwin by Adrian Desmond, James Moore, and Janet Browne
- Isaac Newton by Richard S.Westfall
- Elizabeth I by Patrick Collinson
- George III by John Cannon
- Benjamin Disraeli by Jonathan Parry
- Christopher Wren by Kerry Downes
- John Ruskin by Robert Hewison
- James Joyce by Bruce Stewart
- John Milton by Gordon Campbell
- Jane Austen by Marilyn Butler
- Henry VIII by Eric Ives
- Queen Victoria by K. D. Reynolds and H. C. G. Matthew
- Winston Churchill by Paul Addison
- Oliver Cromwell by John Morrill
- Thomas Paine by Mark Philp
- J. M. W. Turner by Luke Herrmann
- William and Mary by Tony Claydon and W. A. Speck
Publisher information
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- ISBN: 9780199217571
- Number of pages: 137
- Dimensions: 174 x 111 x 9 mm
- Weight: 119g
