{"product_id":"gladstone-book-roy-jenkins-9780812966411","title":"Gladstone","description":"From the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill, a towering historical biography, available for the first time in paperback. \u003cbr\u003eWilliam Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British life. He spent sixty-three of his eighty-nine years in the House of Commons and was prime minister four times, a unique accomplishment. From his critical role in the formation of the Liberal Party to his preoccupation with the cause of Irish Home Rule, he was a commanding politician and statesman nonpareil. But Gladstone the man was much more: a classical scholar, a wide-ranging author, a vociferous participant in all the great theological debates of the day, a voracious reader, and an avid walker who chopped down trees for recreation. He was also a man obsessed with the idea of his own sinfulness, prone to self-flagellation and persistent in the practice of accosting prostitutes on the street and attempting to persuade them of the errors of their ways. This full and deep portrait of a complicated man offers a sweeping picture of a tumultuous century in British history, and is also a brilliant example of the biographer's art.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50032220274961,"sku":"CIN0812966414G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50211933225233,"sku":"GOR005721870","price":3.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50252002296081,"sku":"GOR004450470","price":6.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51268553048337,"sku":"NIN9780812966411","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51416443388177,"sku":"CIN0812966414A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51713828978961,"sku":"CIN0812966414VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0812966414.jpg?v=1751440199","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/gladstone-book-roy-jenkins-9780812966411","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}