Literary Essays
by Strachey, Lytton
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Literary Essays, Strachey, Lytton. Published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1961. Uniform with the collected works. 12mo up to 7½" tall. 396pp. with index. Red boards with gilt titles on black spine label; top edge dyed same dark plum color as jacket. Volume is in fine, unread condition. Unclipped jacket has light wear to edges and a bit of sunning.
Giles Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was an English writer, critic, biographer and a founding and influential member of the Bloomsbury Group. His best-known works are 'Eminent Victorians', published in 1918 and 'Queen Victoria; (1921) He lived with the painter Dora Carrington. A year later, he met and fell in love with Ralph Partridge, a distinguished veteran of the war, and Partridge married Carrington in 1921 in order to maintain the love triangle with Strachey. Their lives are portrayed in the 1995 British film 'Carrington', starring Emma Thompson and directed by Christopher Hampton.
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A companion volume to Biographical Essays, this collection of twenty-five pieces includes two of Strachey's finest critical essays, "Shakespeare's Final Period" and "English Letter Writers." Index.
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- Literary Essays
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