1980 THE SHORTER STRACHEY Bloomsbury EMINENT VICTORIANS Sarah Bernhardt POPE &c

Description: Author: various; selected by Michael Holroyd & Paul Levy Title: The Shorter Strachey Binding: softcover Size: trade paper Pagination: 274pp Published: 1980, Oxford University Press Condition: very good, except for some creasing of covers near spine; interior clean, unmarked; binding tight On the centenary of Giles Lytton Stracheys birthday, a collection of his best-known and most amusing works of biography and essay were collected from his famous works Eminent Victorians, Queen Victoria, and Elizabeth. There are wartime pieces, childhood memoir, and a memorable description of a day spent with Vanessa Bell, Ottoline Morrell and others of the Bloomsbury Colony. [OCR is approximate, as always] Eminent Victorians, Queen Victoria, and Elizabeth and Essex are justly celebrated as biographical master-pieces, combining wit, perception, and a vivid readability; yet,as Michael Holroyd and Paul Levy point out, the essay was the form most congenial to Stracheys talents. His literary virtues were those of the miniaturist: close observation of detail, and exquisite care in its selection and presentation. The limits of the smaller canvas brought out his strengths — concision and precision. Published to coincide with the centenary of Stracheys birth, The Shorter Strachey is a provocative and consistently entertaining selection of thirty of his best short pieces. Stracheys subjects range from Gibbon and Macaulay to Sarah Bernhardt; from Pope to Dostoievsky; from Boswell to Lady Hester Stanhope. There are wartime pieces, a childhood memoir, and a memorable description of a day spent with Vanessa Bell, Ottoline Morrell, and others from the Bloomsbury colony. Michael Holroyd has written the definitive biography of Strachey and edited Lytton Strachey By Himself. Paul Levy is the editor of Lytton Strachey: The Really Interesting Question. «2018» Take a close look at the auction images for details of contents and condition. If you have any questions at all please send a message through eBay before bidding. Be sure to check our eBay Store for thousands of other listings like this one. Orders will be sent out the next business day after receipt of payment. If youre in a hurry and would like expedited shipping (Priority or Express shipping), please let us know before paying so we can adjust your invoice. Books are sent Media Rate within the US, and other small items are sent Parcel by default. If you would like combined shipping, please (1) contact us to let us know, and then (2) wait to pay until youre finished shopping (but try to keep it within a 4 day period, please). Just leave the items in your eBay Cart and then request an updated invoice after youre done. If you pay for an item, we are obliged to ship it to you, and cannot combine it with subsequent purchases. If youre waiting for a separate auction item to finish, please contact us to let us know. _gsrx_vers_1706 (GS 9.9 (1706))

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