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Eminent Victorians

by Lytton Strachey

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1918
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  1. Preface and Cardinal Manning, Chapter 1

    20:12

  2. Cardinal Manning, Chapter 2

    29:02

  3. Cardinal Manning, Chapter 3

    39:55

  4. Cardinal Manning, Chapter 4

    33:05

  5. Cardinal Manning, Chapter 5

    37:15

  6. Cardinal Manning, Chapter 6

    37:20

  7. Cardinal Manning, Chapter 7

    37:25

  8. Cardinal Manning, Chapter 8

    13:32

  9. Cardinal Manning, Chapter 9

    10:22

  10. Cardinal Manning, Chapter 10

    13:49

  11. Florence Nightingale, Chapter 1

    14:00

  12. Florence Nightingale, Chapter 2

    49:02

  13. Florence Nightingale, Chapter 3

    54:17

  14. Florence Nightingale, Chapters 4 & 5

    29:13

  15. Dr. Arnold, Part 1

    36:38

  16. Dr. Arnold, Part 2

    37:26

  17. The End of General Gordon, Part 1

    34:37

  18. The End of General Gordon, Part 2

    28:41

  19. The End of General Gordon, Part 3

    30:02

  20. The End of General Gordon, Part 4

    29:46

  21. The End of General Gordon, Part 5

    35:11

  22. The End of General Gordon, Part 6

    36:24

  23. The End of General Gordon, Part 7

    35:20

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Lytton Strachey's slim, sardonic quartet of biographies took an axe to the Victorian habit of hero worship. Instead of reverent doorstop lives, he offers four compact, ironic portraits: Cardinal Manning the ambitious churchman, Florence Nightingale the driven and difficult reformer, the earnest headmaster Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon, whose death at Khartoum he treats with cool skepticism rather than awe. Beneath the wit runs a serious argument that the age's revered figures were stranger, vainer and more human than their monuments admitted. Published in 1918, just as the First World War had shaken faith in Victorian certainties, the book reinvented English biography and made Strachey famous overnight. This free PDF and EPUB edition contains all four studies.

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Lytton Strachey

Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was an English biographer, essayist and a leading member of the Bloomsbury Group. He made his name debunking Victorian idols in Eminent Victorians, then wrote acclaimed lives of Queen Victoria and of Elizabeth and Essex, changing the shape of modern biography.

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First published
1918
Reading time
About 7 hours
Pages
251
Language
English
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Audio read by
Margaret Espaillat