{"product_id":"books-two-quiet-lives-by-lord-david-cecil","title":"Two Quiet Lives","description":"The two quiet lives are Dorothy Osborne, writer of the famous love letters to William Temple, and Thomas Gray, poet, Cambridge don and friend of Horace Walpole. They lived a century apart, but as David Cecil shows, were temperamentally akin. Both were reserved, introspective and prone to melancholy: both appeared awkward and difficult save to the few to whom they opened their hearts: both commanded a fund of humour and imagination and possessed an instinctive feeling for style: and both enjoyed an inner life which was vivid, strong and exciting.  David Cecil's subtle and sympathetic study of two remarkable natures is a sustained piece of exquisite scholarship which reads as engagingly now as it did when first published in 1948.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53508588830993,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780571251421.jpg?v=1778150038","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-two-quiet-lives-by-lord-david-cecil","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}