Lincoln: A Foreigner's Quest - Couverture rigide

Morris, Jan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0670881287 ISBN 13 : 9780670881284

Editeur : Viking, 1999

Synopsis

Abraham Lincoln, they say, has been more written about than anyone else except Jesus Christ, but this book is different. It is written from a foreigner's point of view. It is biographical in form, but is littered with descriptive passages, personal reactions and asides. Jan Morris has been everywhere Lincoln went, from his birth-place in Kentucky via Springfield and Gettysburg to his death-room in Washington D.C., and the book reveals as much about her own evolving responses as it does aboutLincoln's developing character. She ends the book a loving admirer - not so much of the 16th President of the United States as a politician or a moulder of all our histories, but of Father Abraham as a man of poignant kindness and an artist.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jan Morris is an Honorary D.Litt. of the universities of Wales and Glamorgan, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary F R I B A. Her other books include studies of Venice, Oxford and Spain; a novel, Last Letters from Hav, Fifty Years of Europe: An Album and, most recently Wales. She divides her time between her home in Wales and travel abroad.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Viking
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0670881287
• ISBN 13: 9780670881284
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
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• Personne responsable: non disponible