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Giles Lytton Strachey (1880 - 1932) has written an extremely unconventional collection of biographical sketches, in which the mental and spiritual lives of the subjects are displayed. Strachey has chosen to examine the Victorian era through the lives of a nurse, an ecclesiastic, an educator and an adventurer. The subjects of the essays are Florence Nightingale, Dr. Thomas Arnold, Cardinal Manning, and General Charles Gordon.
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Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), among the most famous writers of his time, was a member of the Bloomsbury group and the author of a number of biographies. His Eminent Victorians, published in 1918, inaugurated a new style of biography distinguished by irony, wit, irreverence, and elegance of language. He is also the author of Elizabeth and Essex, Biographical Essays, and Literary Essays.
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- PublisherBook Jungle
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1438500041
- ISBN 13 9781438500041
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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