THE SHORTER STRACHEY

Strachey, Giles Lytton (edited by Michael Holroyd and Paul Levy)

ISBN 10: 0192122118 / ISBN 13: 9780192122117

Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, 1980

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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. Seller Inventory # 227427

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE SHORTER STRACHEY

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, England

Publication Date: 1980

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Dora Carrington;

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition.

Book Type: Book

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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".