Books and characters, French & English / by Lytton Strachey
1922, 1st edition. London : Chatto & Windus. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Heavy, scattered foxing. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #420184
Physical description; 5 preliminary unnumbered leaves, 306 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : frontispiece, portraits ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. "The following papers are reprinted by kind permission of the editors of the Independent review, the New quarterly, the Athenaeum, and the Edinburgh review. The 'Dialogue' is now printed for the first time, from a manuscript, apparently in the hand-writing of Voltaire and belonging to his English period." Contents; Racine -- Sir Thomas Browne -- Shakespeare's final period -- The lives of the poets -- Madame du Deffand -- Voltaire and England -- A dialogue -- Voltaire's tragedies -- Voltaire and Frederick the Great -- The Rousseau affair -- The poetry of Blake -- The last Elizabethan -- Henri Beyle -- Lady Hester Stanhope -- Mr. Creevey. Subjects; Strachey, Lytton 1880-1932. English literature History and criticism. French literature History and criticism. Authors, English ; Biography. Authors, French ; Biography.
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