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The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett (edição 2005)

por Richard Ingrams

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A remarkably perceptive and vivid life of one of England's greatest radicals. The early years of the 19th-century were ones of misery and oppression. The common people were forced 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', a classic account of early-19th-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 a taste 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. In the pages of his 'Political Register' he lambasted corruption and excoriated hypocrisy, and was forever in fear of prosecution for libel, for which he was sent to Newgate prison for two years, which was the cause of his bankruptcy and forced him to flee to America. For all that the establishment loathed and feared him, the people loved him, and he was greeted by adoring crowds wherever he went. He was a hero of his time, and Richard Ingram's admirable biography is both judicious, moving, sometimes funny and always utterly engaging.… (mais)
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Título:The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
Autores:Richard Ingrams
Informação:HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (2005), Hardcover, 456 pages
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Whoever abridged this book for the BBC broadcast did a horrible job. It was only 5, 13-minute segments, but it jumped around so badly I never knew what was going on. One minute he and his new wife are sailing into NY harbor, and next he's in a London jail. His daughter adores him, and then she doesn't, not even speaking to him when he's ill. Bizarre. I suppose if you're into this guy you might enjoy the biography, but if the abridge audio is a reflection of the book, it's a slog. ( )
  Lit_Cat | Dec 9, 2017 |
It's easy to see why Richard Ingrams, founder and sometime proprietor of satirical magazine Private Eye, should identify with a scourge of the establishment and frequent libel defendant like William Cobbett. Actually, I say "scourge of the establishment", but one of the things Ingrams succeeds in demonstrating is the extent to which Cobbett defies easy categorisation. Like many others, before and since, Cobbett's political beliefs were subject to significant change over the course of his life; but rather than taking the typical journey from radical youth to more conservative middle age Cobbett, broadly speaking, moved in the other direction. From being a fierce critic of Thomas Paine, he went on to be the person who brought Paine's bones back from the United States for burial in England - even if the bones were subsequently lost. Throughout his life, though, he remained a staunch defender of the established Church of England, even if he was less enamoured of many of its clergymen and had a respect for the Catholic Church that was highly unusual for his time.

Ingrams has written a lively book, that escapes from the sometimes plodding conventions of the biographical form. He quotes extensively, and effectively, from Cobbett's writings and journalism. It could just as appropriately titled 'life and times' because it provides a good overview of some of the big events of his day, from the political unrest in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars to the trouble surrounding George IV and Princess/Queen Caroline. Cobbett's, ultimately successful, attempts to enter Parliament also provide an insight to what Parliamentary elections were like in the early nineteenth century. ( )
  dsc73277 | Jun 5, 2011 |
Wonderfully inspiring - if maddeningly biased - biography of the 18th and 19th century writer, polemicist and publisher William Cobbett. Not only is it obvious why Ingrams idolises the man, but you can see how this driven, contradictory man has in many ways sculpted Ingrams' own career. As such it's almost a companion volume to Harry Thompson's Ingrams' biography. Full of fascinating historical cameos and facts (I had no idea Cobbett founded Hansards for a start) and wonderful moments of Cobbett's wit - the rant about the poor and potatoes is very, very funny but also, like the best of "Private Eye", has a very serious point. I thought this would be an enjoyable dip into the past but instead I found myself wanting to rad as much as I could by this extraordinary man. Highly recommended. ( )
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A remarkably perceptive and vivid life of one of England's greatest radicals. The early years of the 19th-century were ones of misery and oppression. The common people were forced 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', a classic account of early-19th-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 a taste 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. In the pages of his 'Political Register' he lambasted corruption and excoriated hypocrisy, and was forever in fear of prosecution for libel, for which he was sent to Newgate prison for two years, which was the cause of his bankruptcy and forced him to flee to America. For all that the establishment loathed and feared him, the people loved him, and he was greeted by adoring crowds wherever he went. He was a hero of his time, and Richard Ingram's admirable biography is both judicious, moving, sometimes funny and always utterly engaging.

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