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Eminent Victorians

Eminent Victorians

Eminent Victorians

Lytton Strachey

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Editorial:
Wilder Publications
Año de edición:
2018
Materia
Historia general y mundial
ISBN:
9781515432944
Páginas:
272
Encuadernación:
Rústica
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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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