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Robert Blake: Short Parliament
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Robert Blake's masterly biography of Benjamin Disraeli, the great British Prime Minister, Conservative leader, and man of letters. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81), Earl of Beaconsfield, Prime Minister of England (1868 and 1874-80), and Conservative leader, was one of the greatest and most colorful political figures in British history. A confidante of Queen Victoria, tireless champion of England, parliamentarian of genius, Disraeli was ... a superb and enduring novelist and correspondent. This monumental portrait by Robert Blake is considered by many to be one of the finest political biographies ever written. Lord Blake is former Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford, and Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. 850 pp 5 x 8 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Other mythos authors have attempted to supply text for Blake's fictional titles, perhaps writing them as Blake himself might have. Robert M. Price argues that at least three of these titles have already been written. First, "The Feaster from the Stars" is obviously a parallel to Bloch's "The Shambler from the Stars" (a title Lovecraft suggested to Bloch). Second, "The Stairs in the Crypt" appears to be a cross between two of Bloch's short stories: "The Grinning Ghoul" and "The Secret in the Crypt". Lastly, "The Burrower Beneath" is similar to "The Blasphemy Beneath", an early story that Bloch sent to Lovecraft for review.[8]
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Obliged by his failing health to return to England, Blake's squadron was within sight of Plymouth, where a hero's welcome was planned for him, when he died on 7 August 1657 aboard his flagship the George. He was buried at Westminster Abbey after a state funeral attended by Protector Cromwell and the whole Council of State. After the Restoration, Charles II ordered Blake's body to be removed from the Abbey along with other prominent Parliamentarians and reburied in the churchyard of St Margaret's.
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