{"product_id":"great-melody","title":"Great Melody","description":"\u003cp\u003eConor Cruise O'Brien's majestic meditation on the life and writings of Burke was originally published in 1992.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'O'Brien [had] been brooding on Edmund Burke for decades. First he worked on a narrative approach and came to a standstill, he knew not why. Then, in the light of much painful observation of the world and its wickedness, he turned to a thematic treatment, inspired by Yeats's elliptic lines: \"American colonies, Ireland, France and India \/ Harried, and Burke's great melody against it.\" \"It\", he decided, was the abuse of power.' Paul Johnson, \u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'The best book about Edmund Burke ever written . . . It succeeds in liberating this remarkable, tormented and brilliant man from those confusing and confining details of British high political life . . . O'Brien's version of Burke's career is a self-reflective and immensely personal one, but its authenticity penetrates to the core.' Linda Colley, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54243702735192,"sku":"9780571325665","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780571325665.jpg?v=1765958426","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/great-melody","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}