OLIVER CROMWELL

by John Buchan ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 25, 1934

Reported in relation to the above biography, as the trade will want to know how to discriminate between them. My feeling, in reading both, is that this biography deserves a more popular sale, and that, from the viewpoint of public libraries, and the general reader wishing one biography for a private library, this is a definitive life, and one for a steady pull over a long period. The method is more directly biographical; the man himself stands out as a human being, through anecdotes, sidelights on his personality, sympathetic interpretation of the problems of his time and place in the scheme of things. Cromwell emerges as a product of a troubled era, and one senses the England and the Europe of his day, in clearer vision than through the Belloc biography.

Pub Date: Sept. 25, 1934

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1934

Categories: NONFICTION