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9780811213639

Midsummer Night : Uwe Timm

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  • ISBN13:

    9780811213639

  • ISBN10:

    0811213633

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-12-01
  • Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
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Summary

Ferdinand Mount's novel brings alive Lord Aberdeen, the Victorian Prime Minister blamed by many for the mismanagement of the Crimean War. Surrounding Lord Aberdeen is a fascinating cast of characters: his cousin Lord Byron, lampooning him in verse; Napoleon and Josephine (giving him "a glimpse of rotting yellow teeth"); Sheridan, slyly applauding his amateur performance in The Rivals; Metternich, whom he admires; and Florence Nightingale getting the better of his life-long rival, Lord "Cupid" Palmerston.

A portrait of a man increasingly at odds with his times, Umbrella provides a superb picture of nineteenth-century life. The horrors of war are matched by exquisite domestic details of life in Mayfair. And the umbrella? His first was a hefty green object fit for a strong young man. His second was black, and with age became leaky. Stylish, elegant, fast-moving, every page interesting, Umbrella is suffused with wisdom and civilized compassion, a work of romance in the best sense.

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