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Lytton Strachey's acclaimed portrayal of Queen Victoria revolutionised the art of biography by using elements of romantic fiction and melodrama to create a warm, humorous and very human portrait of this iconic figure. We see Victoria as a strong-willed child with a famous temper, as the eighteen-year-old girl queen, as a monarch, wife, mother and widow. Equally fascinating are the depictions of her relationships: with her governess, 'precious Lehzen', with Peel, Gladstone and Disraeli, with her beloved Albert and, in later life, her legendary devotion to her Highland servant John Brown, all of which show a different side of the staid, pious image that is so often attached to her. Awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Strachey's classic biography remains one of the best and most readable accounts of the Queen who defined an era.

"Королева Елизавета и граф Эссекс" - наиболее известное из произведений Джайлза Литтона Стрэчи (1880-1932), признанного мастера биографического жанра. Любовь и ненависть тесно переплелись в отношениях легендарной королевы-девственницы и блистательного графа Эссекса. Когда они встретились, ей было пятьдесят три, ему не исполнилось и двадцати... но не только разница в возрасте разделяла их.

«Именитые викторианцы» (1918) Литтона Стрейчи (1880—1932) неспроста считаются одной из величайших биографических книг всех времен. Словно свежий ветер, ворвалась она в литературный мир и распахнула окно в грядущие времена; всколыхнула группу «Блумсбери» (В. Вулф, Э.-М. Форстер и проч.) и предвосхитила прозу «потерянного поколения». Написанные в разгар Первой мировой войны, «Именитые викторианцы» прозвучали как хлесткое критическое суждение о викторианской эпохе. Стрейчи выступил учителем, разъяснившим, как относиться к прошлому — отринув предрассудки и симпатии. Словно мощным прожектором, выхватил он из мрака незыблемые столпы, окутанные…

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Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) is one of the key figures in the cultural life of twentieth century Britain, and his letters are a literary treasure-trove of the man and his world, as well as a record of the startling and poignant love-affair, between him and the painter Dora Carrington. The breadth of his correspondence is breathtaking, going from precocious childhood letters, to letters to Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Maynard Keynes and other members of the Bloomsbury Group to love letters to Duncan Grant and Carrington. The thousands of letters he wrote, retain their vitality to this day discussing changes in morals, the writing of history, literature and philosophy, politics, war and peace and the advent of modernism. As an historian and biographer, he was largely responsible for our own view that the Victorians were priggish; he was openly homosexual, lived in a menage a trois with Ralph Partridge and Carrington.

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