Books and Characters (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): French and English

by Lytton Strachey

Overview

Renowned literary critic and prose stylist Lytton Strachey republished some of his numerous literary essays in this volume. Here are fifteen of them examining the works of French and English authors, including Racine, Sir Thomas Browne, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Blake, among others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411449404
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	04/26/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	322 KB

About the Author

Giles Lytton Strachey (1880–1932) was a British writer and critic, and a member of the legendary Bloomsbury Group. He penned a number of biographies including Eminent Victorians (four short biographies of Victorian heroes). His landmark biography of Queen Victoria changed forever the course of modern biographical writing.