Pure Lives - the Early Biographers
Language: English
Published by The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1988
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used

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Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 159 pages; Traces the origins of biography. 1 Kg.
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- Title
- Pure Lives - the Early Biographers
- Author
- Whittemore, Reed
- Publisher
- The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
- Publication year
- 1988
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0801835488
- ISBN 13
- 9780801835483
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 1 kilogram
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Review
"Whittemore treats his subjects genially and kindly, but without missing a critical trick. His book is full of illuminations, anecdotal and aphoristic, about the largely unexamined idea of character, public and private, and I read it with much delight." -- Howard Nemerov
"Mr. Whittemore is right most of the time and interesting all the time... Biography is a troubled genre -- but, as this book testifies brilliantly, a fascinating one." -- Washington Times
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