EMINENT VICTORIANS: The Illustrated Edition
by Strachey, Lytton
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1555843530
- ISBN 13
- 9781555843533
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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Synopsis
“Discretion is not the better part of biography,” Lytton warns us, and it is with this motto that he paints his portraits of Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold, Florence Nightingale, and General Gordon. The caricatures – which represent the world of religion, philanthropy, education, and politics – expose the high Victorian myths, and reveal a slightly darker truth about the leading figures of the era.Some say that he led the world into the next generation, but that claim is essentially over inflated. What can be said is that the line between fiction and non-fiction was blurred. A new genre was born: literary biography.
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- Bookseller
- Carnegie Hill Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001923
- Title
- EMINENT VICTORIANS: The Illustrated Edition
- Author
- Strachey, Lytton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1555843530
- ISBN 13
- 9781555843533
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- British History Biography England History Victorian Cardinal Manning Florence Nightingale Thomas Arnold General Gordon
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; 19th Century; History; Victorian;
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