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Queen Victoria
by Lytton Strachey
ISBN: 0140183930
ISBN-13: 9780140183931
Format: Paperback
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Summary
Strachey's definitive and ground-breaking biography of the queen who was hailed as the mother of her people and a symbol of imperial greatness. Strachey's biography was perhaps the first of that genre to look behind the facts and penetrate to the psychological truths about his subject.
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Penguin USA
Published date: 1997
Size: 5.25 x 8 inches
Weight: 0.4 pounds
Pages: 255
Publisher's Notes
The wit and astringency of Eminent Victorians have mellowed in this endearing portrait of England's first 'respectable' monarch. Strachey's study of her youth, with its Whiggish sympathies and the unseen influences of Baroness Lehzen, King Leopold and Baron Stockmar, of her total surrender to Prince Albert, of her relations with Melbourne, Peel, Palmerston and Disraeli, may cast an image almost as legendary as the pious icon that it replaced.
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Queen Victoria (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Lytton Strachey
A nice ex-library copy. Gently used. All pages and cover clear except for a few library markings and creases. Softly worn around edges and corners. Binding solid and tight. Purchasing this item supports the Sno-Isle Libraries Foundation. ( more information)
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Queen Victoria (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Lytton Strachey
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Strachey, Lytton
Penguin Classics. PAPERBACK. 0140183930 Good Condition. Reasonable wear - still very usable. Text has writing/underlining, but appears free of highlighting. May have bookstore-related stamps/stickers/marks. . Good. ( more information)
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Strachey, Lytton
Penguin Classics. PAPERBACK. 0140183930 Very Good Condition. Reasonable light wear. Clean inside and out. Text appears free of marks, writing, and highlighting. May have bookstore-related stamps/stickers/marks. . Very Good. ( more information)
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Strachey, Lytton
Penguin Classics. PAPERBACK. 0140183930 Fair Condition. Considerable wear, but still very useable. Text has writing/underlining, but appears free of highlighting. May have bookstore-related stamps/stickers/marks. . Fair. ( more information)
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Queen Victoria
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Queen Victoria
Lytton Strachey
Penguin Books, 1971. Paperback. Very good. Light shelf wear & small crease on cover. 3 spine creases, clean text. Book Description Lytton Strachey, the brilliant Cambridge graduate who revolutionized the art of biography, grew up in Victoria's reign. He was not one of her sympathetic subjects. Thus, when this biography appeared, it was unsurprisingly irreverent. ISBN: 0140183930. ( more information)
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Queen Victoria
Strachey, Lytton
London: Penguin USA. 1997. S Paperback. Fine. 255 pp, 10 chapters with footnotes, bibliography, index. Pristine, no wear. Wraps. Clean, tight and strong binding with no highlighting or marginalia. ~Click on BOOKSTORES to browse our extensive listings of similar titles in British History~ ( more information)
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