Eminent Victorians (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Nonfiction, History
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Author: Lytton Strachey ISBN: 9781411467880
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publication: March 13, 2012
Imprint: Barnes & Noble Language: English
Author: Lytton Strachey
ISBN: 9781411467880
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Publication: March 13, 2012
Imprint: Barnes & Noble
Language: English

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. 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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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. 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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