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 Athen©Œum, 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.