Biographical Essays: Literary Portraits of Enlightenment and Victorian Figures―From Voltaire and Rousseau to Carlyle

by Lytton Strachey

Thirty-five sketches, including pieces on Voltaire, Frederick the Great, Rousseau, Gibbon, Walpole, Boswell, Carlyle, and Sarah Bernhardt, by one of the great biographical writers of this century. Companion volume to Strachey's Literary Essays. Index.

Genres: Essays

312 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1948

About the author

Giles Lytton Strachey was a British writer and critic. He is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His 1921 biography Queen Victoria was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.