Hostage to Fortune: Troubled Life of Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

by Lisa Jardine and Alan Stewart

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Francis Bacon is one of the great figures of English history and no other single figure better deserves the description "Renaissance Man". Drawing on many previously unused sources, this biography places Bacon's long and gruelling life in both historical and intellectual context.
  • ISBN10 0753808536
  • ISBN13 9780753808535
  • Publish Date 14 October 1999 (first published 19 March 1998)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 8 May 2007
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Orion Publishing Co
  • Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson History
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 637
  • Language English