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Brief lives : twentieth-century pen portraits from The dictionary of national biography

1997
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Writers, artists and musicians rub shoulders with scientists, industrialists, politicians and soldiers in this highly readable celebration of British national endeavour and achievement. These mini-biographies are both entertaining and surprisingly frank.
Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Collation:
xviii, 601p. ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9780198600879 (hbk)
Dewey class:
920.041920.02
Local class:
920.04103
Language:
English
BRN:
2031648
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