About the Author:
Hugh Thomas is a member of the House of Lords in London and the author of numerous books on the history of the Spanish world. He lives in London.
Review:
"Hugh Thomas's joyous, elegant and stylish Beaumarchais in Seville shows how much fun history can be."—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
(Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.)
"An enchanting and instructive book, full of historical and critical sensitivity. Thomas succeeds in one of the hardest tasks in literary criticism: linking creative output to the author’s own life story."—Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Tufts University
(Felipe Fernandez-Armesto)
"Grimy streets, grim politics, greedy aristos, grasping parvenues, a grand guignol. Hugh Thomas's disciplined imagination conjures vividly Beaumarchais' world and mind."—Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Tufts University
(Felipe Fernandez-Armesto)
"Beaumarchais' Spanish adventure is related with wit and high spirits by the distinguished historian Hugh Thomas: Mozart would surely have loved to set the whole episode, as here described, to music."—Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette: The Journey (Antonia Fraser)
"Hugh Thomas has written a brief, witty and enlightening account of the origins of those two key works: The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro. He brings to life Beaumarchais in the glittering epoch of profound frivolity before the French Revolution ruined all."—Paul Johnson (Paul Johnson)
"A famous watchmaker's progress? How to fix an unfaithful lover? A ravishing picture of mid-18th century Madrid? A foretaste of The Marriage of Figaro? All of these, and immensely enjoyable."—Brian Urquhart, Former Under Secretary General of the United Nations (Brian Urquhart)
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