by Nancy Mitford · Vintage Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099528869
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«Frederick the Great» is Nancy Mitford's biography of Frederick II of Prussia, published by Vintage Classics in paperback (272 pages, in English).
The work follows Frederick II of Prussia from his frustrated youthful escape attempt to his reign as an enlightened monarch. Nancy Mitford combines his passion for the flute and French literature with his friendship with Voltaire, his military campaigns, religious tolerance, and the economic reforms that prepared a future Germany.
Includes an introduction by Kate Williams. The work was originally published in 1970; this Vintage Classics edition is from 2011.
For readers interested in eighteenth-century European history, the figure of Frederick II of Prussia, and biographies of kings and statesmen.
Nancy Freeman-Mitford was an English novelist, biographer, and journalist who was regarded as one of the "bright young things" on the London social scene in the inter-war period. She wrote several novels about upper-class life in England and France, and is considered a sharp and often provocative wit. She also has a reputation as a writer of popular historical biographies.
