John Morley’s three-volume life of Gladstone is one of the great political biographies in the English language. Written by a close colleague and fellow Liberal statesman, it covers Gladstone’s extraordinary career from his Tory beginnings through his conversion to Liberalism, his first Chancellorships, and his emergence as the dominant figure of Victorian politics by 1859.
Morley writes with authority, insight, and genuine personal knowledge of his subject. The biography covers not only political events but the intellectual and religious development of one of the nineteenth century’s most complex public figures. Download the free EPUB to begin this monumental life of Britain’s Grand Old Man.