Beau Brummell: The Ultimate Dandy
In this fascinating new biography Ian Kelly reveals the man who changed the way we dress forever -- and how his life reflects upon and has influenced our own 21st century culture.
In this fascinating new biography Ian Kelly reveals the man who changed the way we dress forever -- and how his life reflects upon and has influenced our own 21st century culture.
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ISBN:
9780340836996 (0340836997)
Publish date: June 29th 2006
Publisher: Hodder
Pages no: 578
Edition language: English
Ian Kelly's Beau Brummell is a fantastic biography, painstakingly researched and dissected, but never entirely disconnected. Brummell is portrayed in a light that is alternately harsh and sympathetic. Though the novel praises his genius and wit in rising above his station to the very firmament of Lo...