THE SHORTER STRACHEY

Language: English

Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, 1980

0192122118 / 9780192122117

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(xii) 274 pp. Green boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The dj features Lytton Strachey Reading in the Garden at Tidmarsh by Dora Carrington. This collection contains: THREE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS AND A CAMBRIDGE APOSTLES PAPER: Lancaster Gate; Ought the Father to Grow a Beard; Monday June 26th 1916; Asquith - The Times - January 1972. WARTIME PIECES: Militarism and Theology - War and Peace May 1918; A Diplomatist: Li Hung-Chang - War and Peace March 1918; Voltaire and Frederick the Great - Edinburgh Review October 1915. SIX ENGLISH HISTORIANS: Hume - The Nation and the Athenaeum January 7 1928; Gibbon - The Nation and the Athenaeum January 14 1928; Macaulay - The Nation and the Athenaeum January 21 1928; Carlyle - The Nation and the Athenaeum January 28 1928; Froude - Life and Letters December 1930; Creighton - Life and Letters June 1929. DRAMA: Shakespeare's Final Period - The Independent Review August 1904; Sarah Bernhardt - The Nation and the Athenaeum May 5 1923; The Last Elizabeth - Beddoes - The New Quarterly November 1907. LITERARY CRITICISM: Pope - Cambridge University Press 1925; A Victorian Critic - Matthew Arnold - The New Statesman August 1 1914; A Russian Humorist - Dostoyevsky - The Spectator April 11 1914. BIOGRAPHY: Mr Creevey - The Athenaeum June 13 1919; James Boswell - The Nation and the Athenaeum January 31 1925; Lady Hester Stanhope - The Athenaeum April 4 1919; Sir John Harrington - The Nation and the Athenaeum November 17 1923; Muggleton - The Nation and the Athenaeum July 26 1924; The Life Illness and Death of Dr North - The Nation and the Athenaeum February 19 1927; Introduction to Warren Hastings. FOUR FRENCH SUBJECTS: Mademoiselle de Lespinasse - The Independent Review September 1906; The Abbe Morellet - The Nation and the Athenaeum January 26 1924; Madame de Lieven - Life and Letters April 1931; and The President de Brosses - The New Statesman and Nation 11 and 18 April 1931; followed by a bibliographical note and an index. Size: 8vo.…

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Title
THE SHORTER STRACHEY
Author
Strachey, Giles Lytton (edited by Michael Holroyd and Paul Levy)
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Oxford, England
Publication year
1980
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
Very Good
Book Type
Book
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0192122118
ISBN 13
9780192122117
Illustrator
Dora Carrington;
Edition
First Edition.
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