Books & characters, French & English
By: by Lytton Strachey.
Edition: New ed., re-set.
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 1924
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism.; French literature -- History and criticism.; Authors, English.; Authors, French.
Notes: "The following papers reprinted by kind permission of the editors of the Independent review, the New quarterly, the Athenæum, 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."
Table of contents: title: Racine.; title: Sir Thomas Brown.; title: Shakespeare's final period.; title: The lives of the poets.; title: Madame du Deffand.; title: Voltaire and England.; title: A diologue.; title: Voltaire's tragedies.; title: Voltaire and Frederick the Great.; title: The Rousseau affair.; title: The poetry of Blake.; title: The last Elizabethan [T. L. Beddoes]; title: Henri Beyle.; title: Lady Hester Stanhope.; title: Mr. Creevey.