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On November 6, 1817, died the Princess Charlotte, only child of the Prince Regent, and heir to the crown of England. Her short life had hardly been a happy one. By nature impulsive, capricious, and vehement, she had always longed for liberty; and she had
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"Hilarious social commentary...If all biographies were like Strachey's, they would probably kill off the novel altogether."
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No other biography, before or since, gives as delightful and comprehensive an account of Queen Victoria and her reign. Here is the full panorama of Victoria's life--her childhood, her marriage to Albert, and her majestic domination of a colorful court circle--told with the author's now-famous flair for throwing 'a sudden revealing searchlight into the obscure recesses, hitherto undivined.'Hailed by critics as a brilliant new kind of biography, Queen Victoria stands as one of the literary landmarks of this century.
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- Publisher1st World Library - Literary Society
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1421829851
- ISBN 13 9781421829852
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages280
- Editor1stworld Library
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