Author of Audiobooks - Thomas Hardy
Eminent Victorians - Giles Lytton STRACHEY
Eminent Victorians - Giles Lytton STRACHEY
- Author: Giles Lytton STRACHEY
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
On Modern Library's list of 100 Best Non-Fiction books, "Eminent Victorians" marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which chauvinism, hypocrisy and the...
Queen Victoria - Giles Lytton STRACHEY
Queen Victoria - Giles Lytton STRACHEY
- Author: Giles Lytton STRACHEY
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
Lytton Strachey’s first great success, and his most famous achievement, was "Eminent Victorians" (1918), a collection of four short biographies of Victorian heroes. With a dry wit, he exposed the human failings of his subjects and what he saw as the...