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God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain (Paperback)

by Rosemary Hill (Author)
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  • Paperback: 624 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin (7 Aug 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140280995
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140280999
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 40,712 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'a very remarkable book about a very remarkable man' A.N. Wilson'A magnificent biography, as sumptuous and intricate as anything Pugin built' John Carey'as the readable biography of a most protean and brilliant man, it is worthy of the best of his buildings' Colm Toibin'An excellent and detailed biography' Peter Ackroyd


The Guardian, Alan Hollinghurst

'Hill's absorbing book is a marvellously clear guide through the agitated density of Pugin's life ... the picture is unforgettable.' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars THE MAN WHO DESIGNED BIG BEN, 26 Aug 2007
By Dr. S. J. Wyatt (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain (Hardcover)
This is a superb biography. If you're interested in the history of English architecture and interior design then this book is unmissable. But Hill's vivid and rich portrait of a complex and driven man, whose ideas were highly influential but whose projects were often blighted, deserves to be read by a much wider readership. Witty, wise, often moving and always informative, GOD'S ARCHITECT is a great read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Simply superb, 16 Sep 2008
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One of the best biographies i have ever read. Beautifully written and fascinating even for someone like me who had little previous interest in either architecture or the nineteenth century.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A pre-eminent Victorian, 21 May 2009
By M. J. Corbett "Sardanapalus" (Alicante, Spain) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain (Hardcover)
Rosemary Hill's masterly life of Augustus Pugin is quite the best biography I have read for many years. Pugin was not high on my list of eminent Victorians. Thanks to her, he is now. An extraordinary creature, prodigious, amazingly precocious, wilful, cantankerous and quirky to an extreme; a figure that certainly belies the canard that men of his time were frock-coated and bewhiskered prigs.
Hill is most persuasive in her argument that Pugin was the seminal figures in the Gothic Revival and she brings to her task wide historical leaning and broad cultural interest, all presented with an easy elegance not always found in works so immaculate in scholarship and documentation. In the publishing bonanza of recent years, lucidity and precision so often is lost in the rush to get the latest volume into the current lists. Her book, in this, as in all other respects, is exceptional.
I have only one grouse, and a trifling one at that: the book needed more copious illustration. It is a comment upon the enthusiasm which Hill provokes that I longed to behold each rood screen, choir stall and chasuble she describes in something other than my mind's eye. Of course, such a book would be well beyond my and many another reader's pocket. We will have to be content with the finely chosen illustrations which economy has allowed us
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5.0 out of 5 stars Thank God for Pugin
An excellent biography - Rosemary Hill really brings Pugin alive as if he were a contemporary. I haven't been able to put this book down since I first opened it... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mr. David N. Palmer

4.0 out of 5 stars A well researched and extremely detailed biography
Arguably the most prolific architect of his generation and perhaps the greatest ever authority on Gothic style, Pugin was a rather extraordinary character, spending most of his... Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars A love-hate relationship with both Pugin and the book.
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I believe that this book's main fault is that it is in the wrong format i.e. a paper back with too many words and not enough photgraphs. Read more
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I MUST DIFFER FROM THESE OTHER 5 STAR REVIEWS. I FOUND IT BORING. WHY? BECAUSE HIS WORK IS SO OFTEN 3RD RATE (LOTS OF LEAKY WINDOWS),HIS PRIVATE LIFE UNINTERESTING(NOT HIS... Read more
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