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Title: Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey ISBN: 0-15-602756-9 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Pioneering biography
Comment: This life of Queen Victoria set a new standard for biographies when it was written and it still reads very well today. To the modern ear some of Strachey's language may at times be a bit dry. That aside this is an excellent study of the development of Victoria from infancy to old age. The entanglement's of family and the influence of key ministers is well covered and documented . Especially interesting is the treatment of Prince Albert and the Queen's relationship.
I found this to be quite an informative book and would highly recommend it to anyone with a curiosity regarding this period of British history.
Rating: 4
Summary: queen victoria by Lytton Strachey
Comment: I purchased this book at a library sale and it has no copywrit date other then the 1921 date published by Harcourt, Grace & World,Inc and renewed by Jame Strachey, with no renewal date. The copy I have has 434 pages which include an index of subject matter. The only other used books mentioned for sale have a copywrit of 1981 and have 100 less pages. This book is in very good condition and has the original cover jacket. It begins its historic tale in 1817 and includes footnotes at the bottom of the page.
Rating: 5
Summary: still one of the best things around
Comment: strachey became famous for his 'eminent victorians' which has the reputation for being a hatchet job-but he was looking at the previous generation from the disillusioned, post-WWI perspective, and he treats florence nightingale et al more like prodigies than monsters. when he undertook to write about the eponymous queen herself, people expected it would be another exercise in target practice-even his mother tried to discourage him, saying that 'if she was stupid, it was not her fault.' But in the event what he produced is one of the most sympathetic, if slightly condescending, biographies ever written-and absolutely one of the most accomplished. it is a chronicle of victoria's 60+-year-long political career and emotional life, a series of portraits of all the personalities in her life-including albert, his curious replacement john brown, disraeli-him, it is true, strachey clearly did not like-a completely non-pedantic reflection on the growth and eventual shrinkage of the british empire during her reign-and the whole thing is done so subtly, so gracefully-and, at the same time, so forcefully-that you may find yourself talking about nothing else but this book and queen victoria for days afterward. one of the most successful marriages of rigorous scholarship and beautiful style in english literature.
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Title: Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey ISBN: 0140183507 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: July, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History by Lytton Strachey ISBN: 0156027615 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 04 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Lytton Strachey: The New Biography by Michael Holroyd ISBN: 0374194394 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: King Edward VIII by Philip Ziegler ISBN: 075092747X Publisher: Sutton Publishing Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Queen Victoria by Walter L. Arnstein ISBN: 0333638069 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 16 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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