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Italian painters of the renaissance by bernard berenson rd impression read more
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Oxfam bookshop shaftesbury when they met in trevor-roper, a young historian at christ church, oxford, was 33lewis and harold macmillansee oxfam website for delivery information read moreat the same time he loves intrigue and controversysubjects range widely: several brilliant set-pieces on oxford college elections, books, journalism, publishing, politics (postwar europe, ex-nazis and collaborators, the cold war, suez, etc), history and history-writing, personal life (including marriage to earl haig's daughter alexandra after her messy divorce), travel, gossip, and so onelegantly constructed, beautifully and precisely written, they are shot through with high-octane malice, sharp judgements and blistering comments, and many wonderfully funny episodesrowse, anthony eden, gerald brenan, ataylor, arnold toynbee, dimitri shostakovitch, cberenson, the world-famous art critic, was 82, frail but still intensely curious about the worldfigures in the letters include evelyn waugh, isaiah berlin, a book condition throughout very good: dust jacket complete and unmarked, cloth covers very good and all pages crisp and cleantrevor roper promised to write to him and his letters continued until berenson's death in in trevor-roper was an intellectual heavyweight, but the overall tone here is one of amusement at the human comedy', the vanity, snobbery and human weakness he sees all around him he has a memorable journey on a pilgrims' bus in persia, goes behind the iron curtain to meet communist dignitaries and speeds in his glamorous grey bentley to visit duchesses in the scottish borders
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Basic business statistics: international edition by mark ldispatched with royal mail 2nd class large letterberenson, david mcondition is like new
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