New PDF release: Eminent Victorians (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

By Lytton Strachey

ISBN-10: 0141958847

ISBN-13: 9780141958842

A genre-changing paintings of biography

Eminent Victorians marked an epoch within the paintings of biography; it additionally helped to crack the previous myths of excessive Victorianism and to herald a brand new spirit in which chauvinism, hypocrisy and the stiff top lip have been debunked. In it, Strachey cleverly exposes the self-seeking pursuits of Cardinal Manning and the manipulative, neurotic Florence Nightingale; and in his essays on Dr Arnold and common Gordon, his quarries will not be purely his matters but additionally the public-school approach and the entire constitution of nineteenth-century liberal values.

For greater than seventy years, Penguin has been the top writer of vintage literature within the English-speaking international. With greater than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a world bookshelf of the simplest works all through heritage and throughout genres and disciplines. Readers belief the sequence to supply authoritative texts more desirable by way of introductions and notes through distinct students and modern authors, in addition to up to date translations by way of award-winning translators.

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Yours truly, S. L. Clemens. 1876—page 31 To James Redpath 17 March 1876 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, in pencil: CU-MARK, #01314) Hartford Mch 17. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 My Dear Redpath— I want to deliver “Roughing It” in New York within the next 3 weeks. I have to deliver it in New Haven next Wednesday, & so may as well talk it in N. Y. while it is fresh in my mind. I want Chickering Hall—& will wait till I can get it if you think it the best place—as doubtless it is. I want to talk in the afternoon & also that same night—& then fold my tent & skip home.

I think our lawyers will know how to handle Mr. Gill this time, after the experience they have had with him. Keep the book you mention & don’t mislay it. ) Yrs Ever S. L. Clemens Ï P. 000—& a written confession that he is a liar & thief—& a promise to take my article & name out of his book at once—with a penalty of $5 dollars per copy on every book issued afterward with name & article (or either) in it. Yrs S. L. Clemens Ï Sue for $1,000 to $10,000 damages, & permanent injunction. 1876—page 11 To William Dean Howells 18 January 1876 • Hartford, Conn.

What is your criticism? We both, & all, send love to you, little woman, & lovingly I put you into the empty chamber in my heart where my Mollie was that is gone. I am going to write to our good old Mother very soon, & beg & lie, & explain, & make it all up with her, and get her gentle forgiveness, & then go & do some more. Benedictions & blessings upon all the household at Fair Banks! Amen. Saml. L. Clemens 1876—page 23 To Mary Mason Fairbanks 13 February 1876 • Hartford, Conn. (MS, damage emended: CSmH, #01307) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 FARMINGTON AVENUE, HARTFORD.

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