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Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold, Florence Nightingale, General Gordon (Modern Library #212.1)
by STRACHEY, Lytton
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Good+ in Good dust jacket. [c.1962]. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition presenting Lytton Strachey's four short biographies of leading English citizens living in the time of Queen Victoria: Cardinal Henry Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Thomas Arnold and Gen. "Chinese" Gordon. With a brief preface by the author. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / faded black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 408 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1962 (though 1918 date appears in book). ML #212.1. --- Exposure to dampness has resulted in discoloration and mild warping to front board and dampstains to jacket. Interior is tightly-bound, bright and unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket also with foxing and a few small tears, but mostly intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; xi, 342 (6, ads) pages .
Synopsis
“Discretion is not the better part of biography,” Lytton warns us, and it is with this motto that he paints his portraits of Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold, Florence Nightingale, and General Gordon. The caricatures – which represent the world of religion, philanthropy, education, and politics – expose the high Victorian myths, and reveal a slightly darker truth about the leading figures of the era.Some say that he led the world into the next generation, but that claim is essentially over inflated. What can be said is that the line between fiction and non-fiction was blurred. A new genre was born: literary biography.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86464
- Title
- Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold, Florence Nightingale, General Gordon (Modern Library #212.1)
- Author
- STRACHEY, Lytton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c.1962]
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir;
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About Bluebird Books
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Cloth
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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