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Eminent Victorians
Author: Lytton Strachey
Narrator: Jonathan Keeble
Abridged: 11 hr 15 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks
Published: 08/24/2020
Category: Biography & Autobiography - Historical
Synopsis
Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey's wonderfully witty and Wildean quartet of biographies, stands out as one of the most radical and groundbreaking works of its genre. With relentless precision, Strachey explores the lives of four exemplars of the Victorian age: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold and General Gordon, irreverently bringing to light the flaws, strengths, ambitions and hypocrisies of these treasured legends. The combination of thrilling and imaginative narratives with Strachey's ironic reckoning shocked many contemporary readers of the time, and even altered the course of biography, making a powerful case for its elevation to high art.