Author:
Giles Lytton Strachey
Title:
Eminent Victorians
Language:
en
Original publication date:
1918
Characters:
Florence Nightingale, Henry Edward Manning, Thomas Arnold, Charles George Gordon,
Important events:
Crimean War,
Book awards:
The Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction (The Board's List, 53),
First words: The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
Last words: At any rate it had all ended very happily - in a glorious slaughter of twenty thousand Arabs, a vast addition to the British Empire, and a step in the Peerage for Sir Evelyn Baring.
Recommended books:
ISBNs:
0004226488 0140006494 0140183507 0156027895 0156286971 0192801589
Format:
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Size: 572 kb
