Product Description: This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

Product Description: This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

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Product Description: Landmarks in French Literature

Product Description: "[...]beauty of the sublime, wherefrom the great personages of his tragedies—Hermione and Mithridate, Roxane and Agrippine, Athalie and Phèdre—seem to emerge for a moment towards us, whereon they breathe and suffer, and among whose depths they vanish for ever from our sight! Look where we will, we shall find among his pages the traces of an inward mystery and the obscure infinities of the heart...read more

Product Description: Queen Victoria By Lytton Strachey Queen Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she used the additional title of Empress of India...read more

Product Description: Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey Eminent Victorians is a book by Lytton Strachey (one of the older members of the Bloomsbury Group), first published in 1918 and consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era...read more

Product Description: One of the most famous and tortured romances in history―between Elizabeth I, Queen of England, and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex―began in 1587, when she was fifty-three and he was nineteen. Their passionate affair continued for five years, until Essex was beheaded for treason in 1601...read more

Eminent Victorians is a classic by Lytton Strachey 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 and heroine. They were: Cardinal Henry Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Charles Gordon. "Eminent Victorians" made Strachey's name and placed him firmly in the top rank of biographers, where he remains. Lytton Strachey first started "Eminent Victorians" under the title "Victorian Silhouettes," intending to cover the biographies of twelve notable Victorian personalities. Becoming convinced that the Victorian worthies were hypocrites who had bequeathed to his generation the "profoundly evil" system "by which it is sought to settle international disputes by force", Strachey decided to cover only four characters. "Eminent Victorians" was first published in 1818, with almost uniformly enthusiastic reviews. Each of the lives in "Eminent Victorians" are very different, although there are common threads.

Product Description: "Eminent Victorians" is a classic by Lytton Strachey 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 and heroine...read more

Product Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

The correspondence of one of the twentieth century's most important literary figures includes letters to Virginia Woolf, Maynard Keynes, Dora Carrington, Duncan Grant, and others.

Presents brief profiles of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, and General Gordon.

Product Description: Ninguna otra biografía de la Reina Victoria ofrece un relato tan delicioso como exhaustivo de la existencia de la soberana. Coronada Reina de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda a los 18 años de edad, en 1837, permaneció en el trono hasta su muerte, en 1901...read more

Product Description: 1928. The famous biographer of the Victorians tackles a tale of intrigue and passion in the Elizabethan court, where the players are Elizabeth; Sir Walter Raleigh; Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury; and Francis Bacon...read more

Product Description: Few books have had such an impact on their own generation as did Eminent Victorians, which exposed the hypocrisy of the Victorian era by deflating the legends surrounding four of its most notable figures. In the process, Strachey revitalized the art of biography.

Product Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...a change, the old phalanx of reaction was bristling with its accustomed spears...read more

Explores the dynamics of the Victorian era through biographies of four of the era's most prominent figures

Traces the life of the Queen, describes her personal relationships, and discusses her influence on British history