Please try again. My father asked for a warts and all type biography of someone who is usually treated with nothing but respect.
Saltar al contenido principal. Olá, Faça seu login. Try This is not necessarily a bad thing. 'Eminent Victorians' has become a modern book, as another generation of conservatives invokes religion, heroism, patriotism and family values to justify stupid decisions. At the time the book was published, it skewered the hypocrisies and self-assured nature of the Victorians.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 January 2015. (my translation)-This is the aged General the sober English sent on this perilous quest. There are 0 reviews and 0 ratings from Australia. Experimente.

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The old bugger was gripped (although I wish he would just go back to drinking whisky as that is a much easier present!). And it is as readable now as it was then; Strachey was one of the wittiest men of his time, and this book is his most successful work. Concerning the Age which has just passed, our fathers and our grandfathers have poured forth and accumulated so vast a quantity of information that the industry of a Ranke would be submerged by it, and the perspicacity of a Gibbon would quail before it. Being an admirer of the writings of Virginia Woolf who was a friend of his I kept reading about him.

For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian-ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

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We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. A classic of its time. We gebruiken cookies en vergelijkbare tools om uw winkelervaring te verbeteren, onze services aan te bieden, te begrijpen hoe klanten onze services gebruiken zodat we verbeteringen kunnen aanbrengen, en om advertenties weer te geven. And, as he seemed on intimate terms with Everyone Who Was Anybody during the early 1900s, his book created quite a stir. Probeer het nog eens. The most famous anecdote about this book (and the one that made me aware of it) is the scene of Bertrand Russell in his prison cell incarcerated for his Pacifism during WWI laughing hysterically while reading the work.

Try Prime Carrinho. This superb book, by a too-often overlooked author writing at the brink of the modern age, was an instant classic when it was released near the end of World War I. Please try again. It exposed to the war-weary young the hypocrisy and hollowness of the Victorian ideals they believed they were fighting for, through its marvelous depictions of four leading Victorian figures. Guided by these considerations, I have written the ensuing studies. I laughed so much that my dogs were started.

It also analyses reviews to verify trustworthiness. (Their story, for her a tragic love story, has been made into a great film.) This is everything. Verder worden recensies ook geanalyseerd om de betrouwbaarheid te verifiëren. Account & Lists Account Returns & Orders. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Interestingly, he became less iconoclastic as he grew older, and his later biography of Queen Victoria (not one of the four figures contained in Eminent Victorians) is rather respectful. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. So I did a bit of research and found this. © 2008-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Not exactly an easy request! Pre-order Books. Prueba Prime Hola, Identifícate Cuenta y listas Identifícate Cuenta y listas Devoluciones y Pedidos Suscríbete a Prime Cesta. Strachey's psychological portrait of Florence Nightingale, alone, is worth the price of admission here. The hypocritical Victorian mindset was pushed over the edge by this book. Perhaps Lytton Strachey was the first to create "the new biography," not wrapping his subjects in flowery adjectives as was the style of his times, but instead skewering them with sarcastic and scathingly funny written portraits.

It replaced reverence with skepticism and Strachey's wit, iconoclasm, and narrative skill liberated the biographical enterprise. A fascinating study of eccentric personality as only England manages to produce them.

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