Lytton Strachey, the English biographer and critic, introduced a new era of biographical writing at the close of World War I. Strachey's works are celebrated for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. This comprehensive eBook presents Strachey's collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Strachey's life and worksConcise introductions to the major textsMany famous biographies, with individual contents tablesImages of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original textsExcellent formatting of the textsIncludes Strachey's rare poetry – available in no other collectionAlso includes Strachey's early Spectator essays, first time in digital printFeatures two contextual...

Eminent Victorians marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which chauvinism, hypocrisy and the stiff upper lip were debunked. In it Strachey cleverly exposes the self-seeking ambitions of Cardinal Manning and the manipulative, neurotic Florence Nightingale; and in his essays on Dr Arnold and General Gordon his quarries are not only his subjects but also the public-school system and the whole structure of nineteenth-century liberal values.