Critical and Historical Essays
by Thomas Babington Macaulay
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A very judicious one-volume selection from Macaulay's full 3-volume collection , written from the age of 25 to the time when he dedicated the remainder of his life to his History of England. Each of these essays is a gem, valuable as much, or more, for the vigor and precision of the prose as for the clarity and wisdom of the thought.
Some of the finest writing in both literary criticism and historiography of the early Victorian period, by one of the finest Liberal (with a capital L) minds of the time.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay was born in Leicestershire, England on October 25, 1800. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge University. He became a lawyer, but continued to be interested in politics. He became a member of Parliament and rose to the peerage in 1857. Although he held a number of important cabinet posts, the effects of his show more sweeping educational reform, while in India, are his most enduring contribution to the Whig government. His main literary work was his multi-volume The History of England. He died on December 28, 1859. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Everyman's Library (225-226)
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