Dedicated to his brother, the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, these long portraits use five men to tell the history of Europe from 1789 onward. Talleyrand stands for the politic man, and the rest of the gallery is completed by the philosopher Sir James Mackintosh, the pamphleteer William Cobbett, the statesman George Canning and Sir Robert Peel.
A diplomat’s shrewd, gossipy and well-informed view of the revolutionary age and its aftermath. Download the free EPUB.