Queen Victoria

Lytton Strachey

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Състояние:: Много добро
Забележка:: Дребни следи от времето.
Език:: Английски
Наличност:: 1 бр.

За изданието

Издателство:: Chatto & Windus
Град на издаване:: London
Година:: 1921 г.
Антикварна:: Да
Език:: Английски
Страници:: 324
Корици:: Твърди
Категория:: История и археология

This is the definitive biography of Britain’s greatest monarch, who "was hailed at once as the mother of her people and as the embodied symbol of their imperial greatness." "One of the surpassingly beautiful prose achievements of our time". A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His biography Queen Victoria (1921) was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. The publication of Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians in 1918 was a tremendous success. In it, Strachey looked at four iconic figures of the Victorian Age and punctured the hagiographical illusions surrounding them. It seems only fitting that he should follow up in 1921 with a similarly unsentimental but fair biography of the person at the pinnacle of that era, Queen Victoria herself. Thoroughly researched, with his references documented in hundreds of footnotes, Strachey looks at the life of the young woman who, when she was born, was by no means certain to become the British monarch. He also spends considerable time on her consort, Prince Albert, who, in Strachey’s telling, develops from a careless youth to becoming a truly remarkable and effective figure in British society, while continuing to be generally perceived as an outsider. Strachey’s sardonic and witty style makes this account of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert an entertaining and very informative read.