Modern Library's 100th best non-fiction book of all time, and John
F. Kennedy's favourite book. A masterful biography of the life of
Lord Melbourne - Queen Victoria's Prime Minister and devoted
mentor, and one of England's most controversial statesmen - whose
turbulent marriage to Lady Caroline Lamb was one of the greatest
scandals of the era. A charming, curious and altogether
idiosyncratic figure, Melbourne is the perfect subject for a
biography and David Cecil - with his elegant, thoughtful style and
perfect scholarship - was his ideal biographer. The resulting work
is a true classic of the genre and remains the most important and
comprehensive account of Britain's most beguiling and individual
Prime Minister. This volume contains the entirety of David Cecil's
two seminal biographies of Lord Melbourne - The Young Melbourne and
Lord M - in one definitive book. "A superb work of art" - Harold
Nicholson "A historian of the heart" - L. P. Hartley
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