Books and characters, French & English
By: by Lytton Strachey.
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 1922
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism.; French literature -- History and criticism.; Authors, English -- Biography.; Authors, French -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: "The following papers are reprinted by kind permission of the editors of the Independent review, the New quarterly, the Athenaeum, 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 Browne.; title: Shakespear's final period.; title: The Lives of the poets.; title: Madame du Deffand.; title: Voltaire and England.; title: A dialogue.; title: Voltaire's tragedies.; title: Voltaire and Ferderick 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.