by Lytton Strachey · Aguilar · tapa dura · ISBN 9788403880184
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Eminent Victorians is a work by Lytton Strachey that offers an exhaustive analysis of the virtues and defects of Victorian society. Published in 1918, the book presents four biographies that examine key figures of the time, revealing both their achievements and their contradictions. Strachey, known for his innovative biographical style and critical approach, offers an insightful and often satirical view of the society and characters that shaped the Victorian era.
Giles Lytton Strachey was an English writer and critic. A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he established a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His biography Queen Victoria (1921) was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
