Eminent Victorians
“Jonathan Keeble’s narration captures the wit, irreverence, and drama, as well as the poetry and stylishness of Strachey’s prose…This audiobook brings all four subjects to life with considerable élan. Keeble never fails to bring emotion to the text when it is called for. All in all, an admirable rendition of a fascinating book. Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey’s wonderfully witty and Wildean quartet of biographies, stands out as one of the most radical and groundbreaking works of its genre.
With relentless precision, Strachey explores the lives of four exemplars of the Victorian age: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon, irreverently bringing to light the flaws, strengths, ambitions, and hypocrisies of these treasured legends. The combination of thrilling and imaginative narratives with Strachey’s ironic reckoning shocked many contemporary readers of the time and even altered the course of biography, making a powerful case for its elevation to high art.
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