John Brewer

Sentimental Murder (eBook, ePUB)

Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century (Text Only)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

On an April evening in 1779, a woman is shot on the steps of Covent Garden. Her murderer is a young soldier and Church of England minister; her lover, the Earl of Sandwich, one of the most powerful policians of the day. This compelling account of murder, love and intrigue brings Georgian London to life in a spellbinding historical masterpiece.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007372904
• Artikelnr.: 42371283

Autorenporträt

John Brewer is Eli and Edye Broad Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences at the California Institute of Technology in Los Angeles. His previous book, The Pleasures of the Imagination, a widely acclaimed history of the emergence of culture in Britain during the eighteenth century, won the Wolfson Prize in 1998. The Sinews of Power, brought about a radical rethinking of the relationship between finance and the English state in the eighteenth century. He is the author of many other books. He is married to Stella Tillyard lives in Oxford and Los Angeles.