Thackeray's English Humourists and Four Georges

Thackeray's English Humourists and Four Georges

Author: Edgar F. Harden

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780874132748

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Thackeray's only two series of public lectures gave an important new dimension to his public presence and to his contemporary reputation as a literary artist. This is the first book on these lecture-essays.


The First Four Georges

The First Four Georges

Author: John Harold Plumb

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780141390031

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In this volume, the author has written a book whose value as pure history is no less than its interest as a study of four essentially ordinary people under extraordinary circumstances. He was the first to appreciate the complexity of George I, and he surveys the following three Georges with a similarly unjaundiced eye.