Biographical Essays

Thirty-five sketches, including pieces on Voltaire, Frederick the Great, Rousseau, Gibbon, Walpole, Boswell, Carlyle, and Sarah Bernhardt, by one of the great biographical writers of this century. Companion volume to Strachey's Literary Essays. Index.


Author: Lytton Strachey
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 10/22/1969
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.46h x 5.65w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780156126168

About the Author
Strachey, Lytton: - Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), among the most famous writers of his time, was a member of the Bloomsbury group and the author of a number of biographies. His Eminent Victorians, published in 1918, inaugurated a new style of biography distinguished by irony, wit, irreverence, and elegance of language. He is also the author of Elizabeth and Essex, Biographical Essays, and Literary Essays.