{"product_id":"gods-architect-pugin-and-the-building-of-romantic-britain-hill-rosemary","title":"God'S Architect: Pugin And The Building Of Romantic Britain Hill, Rosemary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hill, Rosemary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Random House\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 624\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 23-09-2008\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140280999\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description      \u003cbr\u003e\nPugin was one of Britain’s greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of the soi-disant Comte de Pugin, at 15 Pugin was working for King George IV at Windsor Castle. By the time he was 21 he had been shipwrecked, bankrupted and widowed. Nineteen years later he died, insane and disillusioned, having changed the face and the mind of British architecture.God’s Architect is the first full modern biography of this extraordinary figure. It draws on thousands of unpublished letters and drawings to recreate his life and work as architect, propagandist and romantic artist as well as the turbulent story of his three marriages, the bitterness of his last years and his sudden death at 40. It is the debut of a remarkable historian and biographer.\u003cbr\u003e\n      Review      \u003cbr\u003e\na very remarkable book about a very remarkable man ―\u003cbr\u003e\nA.N. Wilson\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nA magnificent biography, as sumptuous and intricate as anything Pugin built ―\u003cbr\u003e\nJohn Carey\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nas the readable biography of a most protean and brilliant man, it is worthy of the best of his buildings ―\u003cbr\u003e\nColm Toibin\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAn excellent and detailed biography ―\u003cbr\u003e\nPeter Ackroyd\u003cbr\u003e\n      About the Author      \u003cbr\u003e\nRosemary Hill is a writer and historian. Her biography,\u003cbr\u003e\nGod's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain (2007) won the Wolfson History Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Elizabeth Longford Prize and the Marsh Biography Award. In 2008 she published a prize-winning study of Stonehenge and its cultural legacy. She is a contributing editor at the\u003cbr\u003e\nLondon Review of Books, a visiting professor at the University of York, a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a quondam fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140280999\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.7 x 5.1 x 1.3 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50108577874224,"sku":"Trans_9780140280999","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9968\/4144\/files\/A1cIAsTshAL.jpg?v=1756809304","url":"https:\/\/www.retailmaharaj.com\/bn\/products\/gods-architect-pugin-and-the-building-of-romantic-britain-hill-rosemary","provider":"Retail Maharaj","version":"1.0","type":"link"}