Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey

Eminent Victorians

Lytton Strachey

300 pages first pub 1918 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging funny informative slow-paced
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Eminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high art. It replaced reverence with skepticism and Strachey's wit, iconoclasm, and narrative skill liberated the biographical enterprise. His portraits...

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informative: 100%

challenging: 33%

funny: 33%


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