Queen Victoria - Couverture rigide

Strachey, Lytton

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0701160543 ISBN 13 : 9780701160548

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 1993

Synopsis

This irreverent but affectionate look at the life of Queen Victoria combines careful construction and telling anecdote with an elegant style. The author was a prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group but did not achieve fame until 1918 with the publication of "Eminent Victorians".

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Giles Lytton Strachey was a British writer and critic. A founder member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His 1921 biography Queen Victoria was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Strachey's theory of biography was now fully developed and mature. He was greatly influenced by Dostoyevsky, whose novels Strachey had been reading and reviewing as they appeared in Constance Garnett's translations. Also the influence of Freud would be important on Strachey's later works, most notably on Elizabeth and Essex. This study of the childhood, marriage, and reign of England's beloved queen reveals a tender but determined woman. Her short life had hardly been a happy one. By nature impulsive, capricious, and vehement, she had always longed for liberty; and she had never possessed it.

Biographie de l'auteur

Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), one of the most famous writers of his time, was a prominent member of the Bloomsbury Set and pioneer of a new style of biography. Author of, among others, 'Landmarks', 'Eminent Victorians' and 'Elizabeth and Essex' (also Tauris Parke Paperbacks).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chatto & Windus
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0701160543
• ISBN 13: 9780701160548
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 552
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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