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  • Eminent Victorians
    Lytton Strachey
    Eminent Victorians (1918) by Lytton Strachey is a collection of four biographical essays-on Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon-that sharply revise the traditional, reverent style of Victorian biography. Strachey uses irony, psychological insight, and selective detail to expose the human flaws, ambitions, and contradictions behind these...
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    23,29 €

  • Eminent Victorians
    Lytton Strachey
    Eminent Victorians (1918) by Lytton Strachey is a collection of four biographical essays-on Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon-that sharply revise the traditional, reverent style of Victorian biography. Strachey uses irony, psychological insight, and selective detail to expose the human flaws, ambitions, and contradictions behind these...
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    37,15 €

  • A Simple Story
    Lytton Strachey / Mrs. Inchbald
    'A Simple Story' by Mrs. Inchbald offers a compelling glimpse into 18th-century England, exploring themes of social class, guardianship, and romance. This classic work of literature delves into the complex relationship between a guardian and ward, navigating the delicate power dynamics and societal expectations of the time.The novel provides a poignant depiction of orphans and ...
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    25,12 €

  • A Simple Story
    Lytton Strachey / Mrs. Inchbald
    'A Simple Story' by Mrs. Inchbald offers a compelling glimpse into 18th-century England, exploring themes of social class, guardianship, and romance. This classic work of literature delves into the complex relationship between a guardian and ward, navigating the delicate power dynamics and societal expectations of the time.The novel provides a poignant depiction of orphans and ...
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    36,44 €

  • Books and Characters
    Lytton Strachey
    Lytton Strachey’s 'Books and Characters: French and English' offers insightful biographical essays and literary criticism on significant figures in French and English literature. Strachey delves into the lives and works of notable French authors, providing a critical lens through which to examine their enduring impact. This collection presents a captivating blend of biography a...
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    21,04 €

  • Books and Characters
    Lytton Strachey
    Lytton Strachey’s 'Books and Characters: French and English' offers insightful biographical essays and literary criticism on significant figures in French and English literature. Strachey delves into the lives and works of notable French authors, providing a critical lens through which to examine their enduring impact. This collection presents a captivating blend of biography a...
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    34,67 €

  • Queen Victoria
    Lytton Strachey
    'Queen Victoria' by Lytton Strachey, is a biographical work that presents a critical and psychological portrait of Queen Victoria, the long-reigning British monarch who ruled from 1837 until her death in 1901. Strachey, known for his innovative approach to biography, uses a style that blends narrative with a critical examination of the character and personal life of Queen Victo...
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    24,13 €

  • Queen Victoria
    Lytton Strachey
    'Queen Victoria' by Lytton Strachey, is a biographical work that presents a critical and psychological portrait of Queen Victoria, the long-reigning British monarch who ruled from 1837 until her death in 1901. Strachey, known for his innovative approach to biography, uses a style that blends narrative with a critical examination of the character and personal life of Queen Victo...
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    37,99 €

  • Landmarks in French Literature
    Lytton Strachey
    'Landmarks in French Literature,' Lytton Strachey, a well-known British author and reviewer from the early twentieth century, seems at what French literature is all approximately. When it involves the critical occasions and those who’ve formed the rich tapestry of French literary lifestyles, this book is a charming guide. Strachey’s wise evaluation covers a wide variety of time...
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    12,24 €

  • BOOKS & CHARACTERS FRENCH & ENGLISH
    Lytton Strachey
    'Books & Characters' is a collection of literary essays by using Lytton Strachey, a prominent British writer and critic of the early 20th century. The book offers insightful and unconventional biographical sketches of numerous literary figures, presenting readers with a unique attitude on the lives and personalities of those exquisite individuals. Strachey’s writing fashion is ...
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    14,49 €

  • Eminent Victorians
    Lytton Strachey
    'Eminent Victorians' is a seminal work of biography and social commentary published by British writer and critic Lytton Strachey. By offering four unique portrayals of notable Victorian people, the book challenges the standard approach to biography. Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Thomas Arnold, and General Charles Gordon are among Strachey’s subjects. Strachey take...
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    15,19 €

  • Queen Victoria
    Lytton Strachey
    'Queen Victoria' is a biography written by Lytton Strachey, an English writer and critic. The book offers an insightful and unconventional portrayal of Queen Victoria, one of the most influential monarchs in British history. Lytton Strachey’s biography stands out for its departure from traditional hagiographic accounts of Victoria’s life. Rather than presenting a romanticized a...
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    14,46 €

  • Landmarks in French Literature
    Lytton Strachey
    This Book 'Landmarks in French Literature' has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their or...
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    14,15 €

  • Eminent Victorians
    Lytton Strachey
    Lytton Strachey was a founder of the famed Bloomsbury Group, an influential group of intellectuals and writers in wartime England. Considered a masterpiece of biographical writing, 'Eminent Victorians' examines the lives of four important figures representative of the Victorian era. This 1918 work is noted for its irreverent sense of realism toward generally celebrated individu...
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    12,26 €

  • Eminent Victorians
    Lytton Strachey
    Featuring prominent figures in education, religion, science, and war, Eminent Victorians is a fascinating collection of Victorian biographies. Beginning with a discussion of the achievements of Cardinal Manning, Strachey provides insight on the Cardinal’s rise to power and follows the creation of the Oxford Movement, which began the development of the Anglo-Catholic church. Spa...
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    17,21 €

  • Queen Victoria
    Lytton Strachey
    Known for its advances in literature, industrialization, politics, and science, the Victorian era was a prominent time in British history. However, author Lytton Strachey remembers Queen Victoria as a person instead of just focusing on her accomplishments. First starting with a brief history of her predecessors and origins, Victoria was crowned just as she came of age. Having o...
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    16,39 €

  • Landmarks in French Literature
    Lytton Strachey
    With authors such as Voltaire, Honore De Balzac, Victor Hugo, and so many more, French literature can be as intimidating as it is spectacular. Hoping to spread admiration and knowledge about the French literary canon, H.A.L Fisher, a former president of the board of education and prominent historian, sought out Lytton Strachey to write a survey of French literature. After accep...
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    9,56 €

  • La reina Victoria
    Lytton Strachey
    La llamada “época victoriana” debe su nombre a la princesa Alejandrina Victoria, la segunda reina con el mandato más largo de la historia, solo superado por el de su tataranieta Isabel II. Accedió al trono a los dieciocho años tras la muerte sin descendencia de sus tres tíos paternos y protagonizó uno de los periodos más importantes para el Reino Unido, caracterizado por el cam...
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    21,90 €

  • Eminent Victorians
    Lytton Strachey
    A piercing doorway into a century, Eminent Victorians opens the curtains on a world where power, reform, and private longing collided in public glare.Lytton Strachey’s celebrated collection offers sharp, human portraits that blend critical biographical essays with literary nonfiction biography. These vivid sketches-of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, General Gordon, and ...
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    9,41 €

  • Landmarks in French Literature
    Lytton Strachey
    With authors such as Voltaire, Honore De Balzac, Victor Hugo, and so many more, French literature can be as intimidating as it is spectacular. Hoping to spread admiration and knowledge about the French literary canon, H.A.L Fisher, a former president of the board of education and prominent historian, sought out Lytton Strachey to write a survey of French literature. After accep...
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    6,72 €

  • Eminent Victorians
    Lytton Strachey
    Featuring prominent figures in education, religion, science, and war, Eminent Victorians is a fascinating collection of Victorian biographies. Beginning with a discussion of the achievements of Cardinal Manning, Strachey provides insight on the Cardinal’s rise to power and follows the creation of the Oxford Movement, which began the development of the Anglo-Catholic church. Spa...
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    9,84 €

  • Queen Victoria
    Lytton Strachey
    Known for its advances in literature, industrialization, politics, and science, the Victorian era was a prominent time in British history. However, author Lytton Strachey remembers Queen Victoria as a person instead of just focusing on her accomplishments. First starting with a brief history of her predecessors and origins, Victoria was crowned just as she came of age. Having o...
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    9,18 €

  • Queen Victoria
    Lytton Strachey
    'This enchanting volume is not a history of the Victorian age but the portraiture of a woman... Strachey’s work is pure art...a narrative as fresh and distinctive as some delicious perfume.' -David Muzzey, Political Science Quarterly, (1922) Queen Victoria (1921) is the classic biography of Britain’s greatest monarch by Lytton Strachey. Victoria (1819-1901) was Queen of the U...
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    12,67 €

  • Eminent Victorians
    Lytton Strachey
    'It is brilliant, delicious, exquisitely civilized. I enjoyed as much as any the Gordon, which alone was quite new to me.' -Bertrand Russell (1918) Eminent Victorians-Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Thomas Arnold and General Gordon (1918) is a collection of short biographies of four leading personalities of the Victorian era by Lytton Strachey. This book would tra...
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    16,75 €

  • A Guide to Hospitals and Nursing - A Collection of Writings and Excerpts
    Florence Nightingale / Lytton Strachey
    Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was an English social reformer, statistician, and pioneer of modern nursing. She became famous during the time she served as manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, giving nursing a positive reputation and becoming a Victorian culture icon. Also known as 'The Lady with the Lamp', she was an accomplished writer who produced a large ...
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    22,18 €

  • Eminent Victorians
    Lytton Strachey
    Eminent Victorians, first published in 1918 and consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era. Its fame rests on the irreverence and wit Strachey brought to bear on three men and a woman who had till then been regarded as heroes and heroine. ...
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    36,99 €

  • The Biography of Florence Nightingale
    Lytton Strachey
    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 literally worked himself to death for her. But they did not really know her. There...
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    24,13 €

  • Literary Essays
    Lytton Strachey
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    23,89 €

  • Queen Victoria
    1stworldpublishing / Lytton Strachey
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - ~~~~~~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, sh...
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    17,16 €

  • Queen Victoria
    Lytton Strachey / 1stworldpublishing
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - ~~~~~~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, sh...
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    33,02 €


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