Jus publica por ?n en castellano una versión íntegra y sin censuras que incluye varias cartas inéditas descubiertas en años recientes de la correspondencia que mantuvieron por veinticinco años Virginia Woolf y Lytton...
Un libro corrosivo al máximo que, en vez de usar la violencia en el ataque, se valió de un estilo de aparente candidez y de un tono exquisito para ejercer una crítica mordaz, difícilmente irrebatible.
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...
En los meses que precedieron a la Primera Guerra Mundial, el inimitable biógrafo victoriano Lytton Strachey se hallaba enfrascado, ajeno a la catástrofe que se avecinaba, en la redacción de su famoso y ácido Victorianos eminent...
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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...
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...
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&a...
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 transform the art of biograp...
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...
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...
A core member of the Bloomsbury Group, Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) is recognized for his radical influence on the new school of psychological biography. This volume collects for the first time Stracheyâs previously unpublished essays,...
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...
Eminent Victorians marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which chauvinism hypocrisy and the stiff upper lip were debunked. In it Strachey cleverly exposes the...