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"Daily Telegraph" Book Of Obituaries: 20th Century Lives Vol 5
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"Daily Telegraph" Book Of Obituaries: 20th Century Lives Vol 5

20th-century lives

Pan Books (Sep 08, 2000)
9780330371117
| Paperback
512 pages | 130 x 196 mm | English
$ 16.50 | Value: $ 16.50
Dewey 808

Subject

  • Celebrities - Obituaries

Plot

The lives chosen represent a cross-section of 20th-century experience - from the Raj and the courts and chancelleries of Old Europe to the Jet Age and global mass-media. But the shrewd character sketches tend to be of dowagers rather than dictators, boffins rather than bureaucrats, popinjays rather than philosophers. For this is an essentially sympathetic, and frequently hilarious celebration of individual human diversity, with all its flesh and blood foibles and curious sidelights related in the deadpan, delicately ironic style for which the Telegraph obit is famous.

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Retail Price $ 16.50
Value $ 16.50