Books and Characters (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

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<div><p>Renowned literary critic and prose stylist Lytton Strachey republished some of his numerous literary essays in this volume. Here are fifteen of them examining the works of French and English authors, including Racine, Sir Thomas Browne, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Blake, among others.</p></div>

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<div><p><b>Giles Lytton Strachey</b> (18801932) was a British writer and critic, and a member of the legendary Bloomsbury Group. He penned a number of biographies including<i>Eminent Victorians</i> (four short biographies of Victorian heroes). His landmark biography of Queen Victoria changed forever the course of modern biographical writing.</p></div>

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