Author: Richard Ingrams
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0006388256
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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"William Cobbett is one of the most remarkable men in our history. Born in 1763, the son of a Surrey farmer, and virtually self-educated, he became a prolific journalist and master of invective, and is still recognised as one of the greatest ever writers of English prose." "Cobbett lived in turbulent times, and his story is as exciting and eventful as any novel. He joined the army as a young man, but was forced to flee to France and subsequently to America after attempting to expose corruption in his regiment. In Philadelphia he began his career as a political pamphleteer, but once again fell foul of the law and returned to England, where he started his celebrated Political Register, in which for decades he would lambast corruption and excoriate hypocrisy. The foremost satirist and proponent of reform of his era, he had an inexhaustible appetite for exposing the misconduct of the ruling classes. Imprisoned in 1810 for criminal libel, he later fled to America for a second time, but on his return to England (with Thomas Paine's bones in tow) he was yet again put on trial." --Publisher's description.
The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
Author: Richard Ingrams
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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A remarkably perceptive and vivid life of William Cobbett, one of England's greatest radicals. The early years of the nineteenth century were ones of misery and oppression. The common people were thrown into conditions of extreme poverty by enclosures and the Agricultural Revolution, and the long Tory administration of Lord Liverpool saw its task as keeping law and order at all costs. The cause of reform was a dangerous one, as William Cobbett was to find. Cobbett is best known for his Rural Rides, that classic account of early-nineteenth century Britain which has never been out of print. But he was a much greater figure than that implies, being the foremost satirist and proponent of reform of the time. He had an invincible stomach for provoking the deceit and vanity of the supposedly good and great, and had an abiding hatred of the establishment, or 'The Thing', as he christened it.
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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A remarkably perceptive and vivid life of William Cobbett, one of England's greatest radicals. The early years of the nineteenth century were ones of misery and oppression. The common people were thrown into conditions of extreme poverty by enclosures and the Agricultural Revolution, and the long Tory administration of Lord Liverpool saw its task as keeping law and order at all costs. The cause of reform was a dangerous one, as William Cobbett was to find. Cobbett is best known for his Rural Rides, that classic account of early-nineteenth century Britain which has never been out of print. But he was a much greater figure than that implies, being the foremost satirist and proponent of reform of the time. He had an invincible stomach for provoking the deceit and vanity of the supposedly good and great, and had an abiding hatred of the establishment, or 'The Thing', as he christened it.
William Cobbett
Author: Morris Leonard Pearl
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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The life of William Cobbett. Written by himself
Author: William Cobbett
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Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Pages : 32
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The Life of William Cobbett
Author: William Cobbett
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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William Cobbett: a Biography
Author: Edward Smith
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Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Languages : en
Pages : 380
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The Life of William Cobbett ... With a Chapter on "Rural Rides" by the Late F.E. Green. [With a Portrait.].
Author: George Douglas Howard Cole
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Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Pages : 458
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Rural rides
Author: William Cobbett
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Languages : en
Pages : 766
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Pages : 766
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The Life of William Cobbett
Author: George Douglas Howard Cole
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Category : Journalists
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Category : Journalists
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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The Life and Letters of William Cobbett in England & America
Author: Lewis Saul Benjamin
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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The Life of William Cobbett
Author: George Douglas Howard Cole
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Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Languages : en
Pages : 468
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