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Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold, Florence Nightingale, General Gordon (Modern Library #212.1)
de STRACHEY, Lytton
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Librería
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good with no dust jacket. [c.1946]. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition featuring Lytton Strachey's four short biographies of leading English citizens living in the time of Queen Victoria: Cardinal Henry Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Thomas Arnold and Gen. "Chinese" Gordon. With a brief preface by the author. --- In Toledano spine 8 / grey cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers. Volume lacks the dust jacket. Likely published c.1946 (though 1918 date appears in book). ML #212.1. --- A very nice copy: clean, tightly bound and unmarked, though with a little rippling to cover cloth.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; xi, 342 pages .
Sinopsis
“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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Detalles
- Librería
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 83605
- Título
- Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold, Florence Nightingale, General Gordon (Modern Library #212.1)
- Autor
- STRACHEY, Lytton
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Editorial
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- [c.1946]
- Catálogos del vendedor
- >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir;
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