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Eminent Victorians (Paperback, [New Ed.]): Lytton Strachey

Eminent Victorians (Paperback, [New Ed.])

Lytton Strachey; Introduction by Michael Holroyd

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

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Strachey was the most talented of the Bloomsbury Group. The gentle irony with which he slides General Gordon, Cardinal Manning and Florence Nightingale from their pedestals is wrapped in prose so elegant and beautifully balanced that you feel that they are being complimented by his attentions. (Kirkus UK)

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 stiff upper lip were debunked. In it Strachey cleverly exposes the self-seeking ambitions of Cardinal Manning and the manipulative, neurotic Florence Nightingale; and in his essays on Dr Arnold and General Gordon his quarries are not only his subjects but also the public-school system and the whole structure of nineteenth-century liberal values.

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Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Release date: October 1989
First published: July 1990
Authors: Lytton Strachey
Introduction by: Michael Holroyd
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - B-format
Pages: 288
Edition: [New Ed.]
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-018350-4
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Biography > Historical, political & military
LSN: 0-14-018350-7
Barcode: 9780140183504

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