Brief Lives - Colin Matthew

Title: Brief Lives
Author: Selected by Colin Matthew
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Edition: Oxford University Press paperback edition, 1999
ISBN: 9780192800893
Condition: Second-hand. Good. Covers show rubbing, surface marks, edge wear and creasing, with heavier wear around the corners and spine ends. A Barwon Booksellers sticker is attached to the lower rear cover. The binding is intact and the pages show light age-related toning. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

A collection of 150 intimate biographies of notable twentieth-century British figures, drawn from the Dictionary of National Biography and written by people who often knew their subjects personally.

Writers, artists, musicians, politicians, scientists and public figures appear throughout, including W. H. Auden, Ian Fleming, Sir John Betjeman, Jacqueline du Pré and Virginia Woolf.