Books and Characters : French and English

Name: Books and Characters : French and English
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ISBN: 9781406575590

ISBN-10: 1406575593

ISBN-13: 9781406575590

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Authors: Lytton Strachey

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Giles Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was a British writer and critic. He is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. From time to time throughout his life Strachey studied Italian, German, and French. Landmarks in French Literature was published in 1912. By 1916 Strachey's theory of biography was fully developed and mature. He was being greatly influenced by Dostoevsky. His first great success, and his most famous achievement, was Eminent Victorians (1918), a collection of four short biographies of Victorian heroes. This work was followed in the same style by Queen Victoria (1921). Amongst his other…

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List price: $18.99
Publisher: Dodo Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.49" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English