Strachey Lytton: 24 books

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.   "Discretion is not the better part of biography," Strachey warns us, and it is with this motto that he paints his portraits of Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold, Florence Nightingale, and General Gordon....

This 1912 publication is a thoughtful overview of French literature that was aimed at illuminating the French classics for English readers. Beginning with the Middle Ages and covering the time periods through the end of the nineteenth-century, Strachey discusses authors Froissart, Moliére, and Hardy,...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time "Eminent Victorians" marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which chauvinism, hypocrisy and the stiff upper lip were...

Extrait : "La Réforme en Angleterre eut une caractère non seulement religieux, mais social. A l'époque où le moule spirituel du Moyen Age était brisé, une révolution correspondante, non moins complète et de non moindre portée, se produisit dans l'économie de la vie temporelle et la répartition...

Florence Nightingale was a healer, a comforter, and a nurturer. But like all of us, she had a dark side. Because of her mystique and her charisma, she always got what she wanted. Seldom did anyone really know her. They were drawn to her. They had to be with her. They admired her. At least one man...

L'autore di 'Eminenti vittoriani' e di 'Elisabetta e il conte di Essex' scriveva biografie come romanzi. E ritratti come racconti: cammei di un sublime miniaturista.

Elizabeth I of England had one great passion in her life and that was for the Earl of Essex giving him power, wealth and favour in such a way that he made many enemies. This fascinating biography of this great romance is written in such a way as to appear as a historical novel. Many of the earliest...

THE history of the Victorian Age will never be written; we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian— ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. Concerning the Age which has just passed,...

On November 6, 1817, died the Princess Charlotte, only child of the Prince Regent, and heir to the crown of England. Her short life had hardly been a happy one. By nature impulsive, capricious, and vehement, she had always longed for liberty; and she had never possessed it. She had been brought up among...