Dr. Charles Burney: A Literary Biography

"A beautifully organized work of scholarship, a book of exceptional learning and sympathy."—Times Literary Supplement. "Rarely does one find a new biography which merits such wholehearted praise—for thorough research using large masses of new information, for skillful use of evidence, and for a smooth, entertaining style.... One of the outstanding literary lives of our period."—Johnsonian Newsletter (Columbia University). Since his death in 1814, Charles Burney's long and remarkable career ha…