Books and Characters, French & English

Lytton Strachey was an English biographer and critic, whose literary legacy includes the biography of Queen Victoria, Cardinal Manning, General Gordon and other notable figures. One of the leading members of the Bloomsbury group, he became known for his ironic prose style and sense of rupture with the Victorian past, which helped to define English literary modernism.

Published in 1915, “Books and Characters, French & English” contains essays on a variety of characters from literary history, including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire and Frederick II of Prussia.

We are glad to present you the book of the historian, whose works will be informative for everyone, who wants to know more about great figures of European history.