by David Gilmour · John Murray Publishers Ltd · tapa dura · ISBN 9780719548345
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«Curzon» is the biography of George Nathaniel Curzon by David Gilmour, published by John Murray in hardback (684 pages, in English).
David Gilmour follows the public career of George Nathaniel Curzon as Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary, and reviews the controversies surrounding his figure. Against the caricatured image, the author draws a complex portrait, attentive to his personal relationships, vendettas, friendships and romances.
Published in 1994, it received the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize. The edition includes bibliography and index.
Work aimed at readers interested in political biographies and in British and Indian history of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
David Gilmour is a Canadian fiction novelist, former television journalist, film critic, and former professor at the University of Toronto.
