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A Simple Story, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha…
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In this text Lytton Strachey sets out to paint a satiric portrait of Queen Victoria as an eccentric personality - stubborn, opinionated, highly emotional and imperious; but finally it becomes…
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A core member of the Bloomsbury Group, Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) is recognized for his radical influence on the new school of psychological biography. This volume collects for the first time…
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Michael Holroyd
Lytton Strachey, genius, wit, iconoclast, biographer, pacifist, and homosexual campaigner, was at the nexus of the literary and artistic life of Bloomsbury.
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Max Beerbohm
Originally published in 1943, this book presents the content of the Rede Lecture for that year, which was delivered by Max Beerbohm at Cambridge University. This book will be of…
Lytton Strachey
Eminent Victorians, first published in 1918 and consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era. Its fame rests on the irreverence and wit Strachey brought to bear…
Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr Arnold and ‘The End of General Gordon
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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This irreverent but affectionate look at the life of Queen Victoria combines careful construction and telling anecdote with an elegant style. The author was a prominent member of the Bloomsbury…
Lytton Strachey’s classic Eminent Victorians was an assault on the Victorian age and its values, and a masterly hatchet job on four key figures of the age. The text is…
Exposes the self-seeking ambitions of Cardinal Manning and the manipulative, neurotic Florence Nightingale.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable…
Florence Nightingale was a healer, a comforter, and a nurturer. But like all of us, she had a dark side. Because of her mystique and her charisma she always got…
"Books & Characters" is a collection of literary essays by using Lytton Strachey, a prominent British writer and critic of the early 20th century. The book offers insightful and unconventional…
"Landmarks in French Literature," Lytton Strachey, a well-known British author and reviewer from the early twentieth century, seems at what French literature is all approximately. When it involves the critical…
Landmarks in French literature. This book, Landmarks in French literature, by Lytton Strachey, is a replication of a book originally published before 1912. It has been restored by human beings…
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
A biography of Queen Victoria in which Strachey details her youth, with its Whiggish sympathies and the unseen influences of Baroness Lehzen, King Leopold and Baron Stockmar, her total surrender…
Thirty-five sketches, including pieces on Voltaire, Frederick the Great, Rousseau, Gibbon, Walpole, Boswell, Carlyle, and Sarah Bernhardt, by one of the great biographical writers of this century. Companion volume to…
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1922 Original Publisher: Harcourt, Brace Subjects: English literature French literature Authors, English Authors, French Biography
This Book "Landmarks in French Literature" has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by…
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written; we know too much about it. So wrote Lytton Strachey in 1922; but he added, Human beings are too important…
The woman who ruled a nation and framed an Era. Alexandrina Victoria was conceived in a race between two disreputable, aging princes to beget an heir to the throne of…
When Ingres painted his vast ‘Apotheosis of Homer, ’ he represented, grouped round the central throne, all the great poets of the ancient and modern worlds, with a single exception…
A companion volume to Biographical Essays, this collection of twenty-five pieces includes two of Strachey’s finest critical essays, Shakespeare’s Final Period and English Letter Writers. Index.
"Eminent Victorians" is a seminal work of biography and social commentary published by British writer and critic Lytton Strachey. By offering four unique portrayals of notable Victorian people, the book…
"Queen Victoria" is a biography written by Lytton Strachey, an English writer and critic. The book offers an insightful and unconventional portrayal of Queen Victoria, one of the most influential…
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1918 Edition.
B H Lehman
Additional Editor Is C. W. Wells. University Of California Publications In English, V1.
Lytton Strachey,Strachey
One of the most famous and tortured romances in history - between Elizabeth I, Queen of England, and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex - began in 1587, when she was…
Few books have had such an impact on their own generation as did Eminent Victorians, which exposed the hypocrisy of the Victorian era by deflating the legends surrounding four of…
Lytton Strachey was a founder of the famed Bloomsbury Group, an influential group of intellectuals and writers in wartime England. Considered a masterpiece of biographical writing, "Eminent Victorians" examines the…
