- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (25 Oct 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140183930
- ISBN-13: 978-0140183931
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 5.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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"Hilarious social commentary...If all biographies were like Strachey's, they would probably kill off the novel altogether."
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In theatres now from Miramax, Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown is based on Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have always been kind of scared of biogaphies. I feared they were boring and stuffed with chronological annotations. With this book I have discovered they can be really enjoyable and fun. The author not only gives a full account of queen Victoria's life, but he also writes about her feelings in quite a remarkable way. He's always accurate, and he always stops analysing her emotional reactions, her sometimes childish behaviour, without ever patronising and always showing the human side of what has with time become a legendary queen. You can read between the lines he's fond of the woman he's writing about, and as you go on reading his feelings become your own. At the end of the book you cannot but feel sympathy for queen Victoria and you wish you could turn back time and share some of the most glorious moments of the long reign.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Do you want to understand Queen Victoria?
Do you want to understand how she become the ultimate monarch?
Do you want to understand what the love and marriage to Prince Albert meant to her?
Do you want to understand how she manage to put nearly everybody in awe of her?
Do you want to understand what John Brown meant to her?
Do you want to understand how she become the ultimate monarch?
Do you want to understand what the love and marriage to Prince Albert meant to her?
Do you want to understand how she manage to put nearly everybody in awe of her?
Do you want to understand what John Brown meant to her?
Lytton Strachey' s "Queen Victoria" is the classical biography on Britain' s longest reigning monarch. You have to start here. The book is superbly written, informative, with passion and inside and understanding. You will find a great personality, a real character, often not as nice as you "remember her to be", a woman of strong will, a young and lively young woman, a not too attached mother, a devoted and loving wife, a woman with a lots of doubts about her abilities and character but a fighter and a proud one, a grieving widow and shrewd and able politician. Queen Victoria was so much more than people believe her to be. After having read this book you understand why a whole period was named after her.
An absolutely stunning book!
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A wonderful, entertaining and informative account, particularly of Victoria's happy early years of childhood and marriage, so overshadowed in popular memory by her years of widowhood. Full of psychological insight and, no doubt tendentious, but none the less thought-provoking, political implication.
Better than nothing if it's otherwise out of print, but this 1st World Library, scanned, paperback edition of this book comes with nothing in the way of scholarly introduction, notes or editing, apart from Strachey's own. Instead we have the publishers' self-trumpeted dedications to world literacy - vacuous when, for instance, Strachey's French quotes and asides are all offered without a single accent, such as: "si nous ne nous hations pas, l'heritier viendrait avant le mari." Which should read: "si nous ne nous hâtions pas, l'héritier viendrait avant le mari." If you think that doesn't matter, Strachey's probably too literate and educated for you.
Better than nothing if it's otherwise out of print, but this 1st World Library, scanned, paperback edition of this book comes with nothing in the way of scholarly introduction, notes or editing, apart from Strachey's own. Instead we have the publishers' self-trumpeted dedications to world literacy - vacuous when, for instance, Strachey's French quotes and asides are all offered without a single accent, such as: "si nous ne nous hations pas, l'heritier viendrait avant le mari." Which should read: "si nous ne nous hâtions pas, l'héritier viendrait avant le mari." If you think that doesn't matter, Strachey's probably too literate and educated for you.
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