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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Strachey's 'Queen Victoria' delves into the life and reign of the iconic British monarch. It begins with her unexpected rise to power and explores her childhood heavily influenced by her controlling mother. The narrative details her relationship with Prince Albert, emphasizing his strong influence on her and the nation, and delves into their domestic life and his untimely death. Strachey paints a complex portrait, portraying both Victoria's strong leadership and her moments of grief and stubbornness. He sheds light on her evolving public image, from a youthful symbol of hope to a revered 'Empress of India,' while subtly critiquing the rigid Victorian societal norms she embodied. Within a short work, Strachey offers a window into the life and legacy of a woman who shaped a vast empire and continues to hold a significant place in British history, with insights both into her personal struggles and her public triumphs.
Lytton Strachey (Author), Digital Voice Marcus G (Narrator)
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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.
Lytton Strachey (Author), Jonathan Keeble (Narrator)
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“The girl, the wife, the aged woman, were the same: vitality, conscientiousness, pride, and simplicity were hers to the latest hour.” A remarkably fresh and engaging account of Britain’s long-reigning monarch, Queen Victoria, who ascended to the throne at eighteen, in 1837, and died in 1901. Lytton Strachey captures her essential spirit in concise and elegant prose, with an eye and an ear keenly attuned to human nature, and its foibles. The portraits he draws of Victoria’s husband, Albert, her family members, and the procession of Prime Ministers, beginning with her beloved Lord M, are vivid and trenchant. Written only twenty years after her death, this biography exemplifies the emergence of modern thought from the Victorian Era.
Lytton Strachey (Author), Kate Reading (Narrator)
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When Lytton Strachey published Emininent Victorians, he took the general perception of the Victorian age among English-speaking readers and turned it upside-down. Four of the most eminent and idealized heroic figures of the Victorian age came under his witty and unsparing gaze and emerged, astonishingly enough, as human beings. His study of one of the most revered prelates in England, Cardinal Manning, reveals a profound and courageous religious mind combined with the conniving and ruthless soul of a born politician. His dissection of the life of Florence Nightingale shows her both as the Lady of the Lamp and as a woman of steely backbone and adamantine determination, who not only cared for wounded and sick soldiers with complete dedication and solicitude, but who wreaked holy hell on any bureaucrat or governmental office that tried to get in her way. When Strachey is finished with Dr. Arnold, we understand him as a revolutionary reformer of English education and as a first-rate prig. And when Strachey finishes leading us through the life of General George Gordon, we come away having known him both as a man of extraordinary courage and as a near-lunatic. Fascinating, witty, insightful and provoking, these four biographical studies single-handedly revived the art of biography in the English language. A Freshwater Seas production.
Lytton Strachey (Author), Robert Bethune (Narrator)
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