Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey

Eminent Victorians

Lytton Strachey

250 pages first pub 1918 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging funny informative slow-paced
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THE history of the Victorian Age will never be written; we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian-ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by t...

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