The Great Melody
Subtitle: A Thematic Biography of Edmund Burke
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: March 20, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 768
ISBN-13: 9780226616513
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Composers & musicians; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Historical - British; History / Great Britain; Historical - General; Literary; 1729-1797; Biography; Burke, Edmund,; Great Britain; Political scientists; Statesmen
First sentence: All Burke's biographers, from James Prior in 1826 to Stanley Ayling in 1988, state that Edmund Burke was born in Dublin, and that his father, an attorney, Richard Burke, was a Protestant and his mother, born Mary Nagle, a Catholic.