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Memoirs of Walter Bagehot

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Klappentext The constructed memoirs of Walter Bagehot, a prominent Victorian lawyer, businessman, essayist, and journalist. Prochaska assumes his subject's voice and draws on his extensive writings to paint a vivid picture of this colourful character. "[Prochaska] has done a remarkable job . . . What he has accomplished is a quiet "tour de force", often tightening and (if it is permitted to say so) improving on the original . . . Frank Prochaska has shone an agreeable and revelatory light upon this great Victorian writer by an artful deployment of literary mirrors, not lanterns. "The Memoirs of Walter Bagehot" is a testimony not only to his command of the Bagehot oeuvre but also to his deep understanding of Bagehot's curious place in the pantheon of that endangered species, the man of letters."--Roger Kimball, "Literary Review"--Roger Kimball"Literary Review" (08/01/2013) Zusammenfassung The spirited and measured memoir of Walter Bagehot, had he left one

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