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Eminent Victorians: Florence Nightingale, General Gordon, Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold
A Harvest Books paperback of Lytton Strachey's 1918 biographical quartet, the book that made it acceptable to write about the great with a raised eyebrow. The portraits of Nightingale, Gordon, Manning, and Arnold are witty, selective, and sometimes unfair; that is precisely the point. The Harvest cover is modest, the paper is thin, and the type is readable. Harvest Books reissued it as a low-priced paperback because the portraits never stopped being useful. Ideal reader: the reader who suspects that biography has been too reverent for too long, or the historian who wants to watch a writer take revenge on an era.
US$8.00
Ships fromPittsburgh, PA
Est. delivery3–5 business days
ConditionAll of our books are sold as reading copies regardless of actual condition because books are meant to be read.
