Download or read book Edmund Burke: Volume I, 1730-1784 written by F. P Lock and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1998 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full, scholarly biography of Burke for over a generation, to be completed in two volumes. The first volume covers the years between 1730-1784, and describes his Irish upbringing and education, early writing, and his parliamentary career throughout the momentous years of the American War of Independence.