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Lytton Strachey: The New Biography

by Michael Holroyd · 1968

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"It is impossible to suppose that this 'Life' will ever be superseded . . . the best literary biography to appear for many years."—John Rothenstein, New York Times"Written with vivacity and scrupulousness. . . . [Michael Holroyd] has a great novelist's sense of the obstinate mystery of the human person."—George Steiner, The New Yorker

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biographybiographyMore like thisLess of this
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20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisBritishBritishMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of this
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adult
Length
epic · 600 pages

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