The Shorter Strachey : Selected Essays of Lytton Strachey

Strachey, Lytton; Holroyd, Michael (editor); Levy, Paul (editor)

ISBN 10: 0192122118 / ISBN 13: 9780192122117

Published by Oxford University Press, Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1980

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Smaller book, shiny green cloth, very bright gilt on spine, pages' top edge browned, 274 lightly browned pages. DJ beneath mylar has green background, color-illustration of Strachey reclining in lawn chair on front, illustration in white of Strachey on back. DJ and book, both Very Fine. Seller Inventory # 21196

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Shorter Strachey : Selected Essays of ...

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Publication Date: 1980

Binding: Cloth

Illustrator: Carrington, Dora; Lamb, Henry

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine

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Synopsis:

This is a selection of writings by Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), the distinguished essayist and biographer and prominent member of the Bloomsbury group. Biographical subjects include Edward Gibbon, Alexander Pope, Sarah Bernhardt, Dostoevsky, Boswell and Lady Hester Stanhope. Some essays are more personal - responses to World War I, childhood memories and an account of a Bloomsbury day out in the country with Lady Ottoline Morrell and Vanessa Bell. The writing is consistently perceptive and entertaining, demonstrating the author's piercing observation and wit. Lytton Strachey is author of "Eminent Victorians" and "Queen Victoria".