About this title: Strachey's eccentric look at Florence Nightingale, General Gordon, Cardinal Manning, and Dr. Arnold breathed new life into the art of biography when it originally appeared.
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780140006490ISBN:0140006494
Description: Very Good. 0140006494 Mass market paperback, previously read used book in very good condition, may have slight worn corners and varying degre..._ read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Second Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Capricorn Books, New York
Date Published: 1963
Description: VG+ 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. 338 pp., illus. Lightly creased binding, slight shelf wear, former owner signature inked out on first page. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Modern Library
Date Published: 1918
Description: Good. Format: Hardcover. Year: 1918. Modern Library 212. Occasional Underlining, otherwise book is very good. Jacket has small tears along edges. Hardcover book with jacket. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date Published: 1918
ISBN-13:9780140183504ISBN:0140183507
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Text is clear, binding is tight, pages are clean. Cover is clipped and has minor surface wear on the back. Stamp on outside of pages. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Very Good. Harvest, TPB, undated reprint of book first published in 1918. Clean, solid binding, light wear edges and corners, inscription on FFL, no markings on text pages, NLHC. read more
Description: Good. 1987-Paperback-Cover shows some minor shelf-wear. Pages tanned.014006494---Used-Good-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Description: G+ to VG, ink inside back wrap. 351pp, Minor edgewear. Biographies of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold and General Gordon. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Capricorn, New York
Date Published: 1963
Description: Good/Wraps. . Small trade paperback, good condition, w. lightly tanned, ltly rubbed wraps--sme lt marks. Sme lt soil and spots on r. Lt reading crease, v. ltly bumped corners. Smwht tanned p. edges, sme lt soil. Ltly tanned ins wraps, pp. O/w cln, tight, unmarked. read more
"My English professor son claims that this is a book ONLY read by graduate students. That's unfortunate because it is a very good read. The book was revolutionary in its day because it was biography complete with warts and all, which wasn't done to people like Florence Nightingale and Cardinal Manning, who are surely of heroes of the time. The author describes their stories with humor and irony and makes of their lives an entertaining read."
"I loved this book. A view of the Victorians from a Modernist perspective. Who could ask for more? I especially liked the biography of Florence Nightingale, presented in this book not as the soft-spoken "Lady with the Lamp" and saver of soldiers, but as a driven, often obsessive, overachiever. The four short biographies in this book portray their subjects ultimately as humans, their flaws and strengths equally on display."
"Why let scruples over facts and fairness get in the way of a wickedly good read? Lytton Strachey's quartet of pithy biographies, Eminent Victorians (1918), wittily, Wilde-ishly distorts the character and accomplishments of four noble worthies -- Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon -- in order to burlesque the nineteenth-century's most dearly held virtues: faith, hard work, learning, and courage. In its day, the book's tone and specious arguments ruffled a few aged feathers. But its derisive criticism of the past generation's pretense helped to usher in a new, Modern period of literature, and Strachey's probing of his subjects' psyches and his experiments with the structure of his lives profoundly influenced the scope and style of twentieth-century biography. Readers nowadays sometimes miss Strachey's mocking irony: his victims are too long dead, mostly forgotten, and the style he parodies has gone out of fashion. In spite of its age, though, the book is full of deliciously tart and stinging lines that make this acerbic read a guilty pleasure."
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