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Author(s): Strachey, Lytton
Reader(s): Keeble, Jonathan
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Non-Fiction
Catalogue No: NA0474
Barcode: 9781781983348
Release Date: 08/2020
STRACHEY, L.: Eminent Victorians (Unabridged)
Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey’s wonderfully witty and Wildean quartet of biographies, stands out as one of the most radical and groundbreaking works of its genre. With relentless precision, Strachey explores the lives of four exemplars of the Victorian age: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold and General Gordon, irreverently bringing to light the flaws, strengths, ambitions and hypocrisies of these treasured legends. The combination of thrilling and imaginative narratives with Strachey’s ironic reckoning shocked many contemporary readers of the time, and even altered the course of biography, making a powerful case for its elevation to high art.
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1 | Eminent Victorians | 05:29 |
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2 | Cardinal Manning | 03:03 |
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3 | I | 10:42 |
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4 | II | 14:17 |
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5 | When Froude succeeded in impregnating Newman… | 13:52 |
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6 | III | 07:37 |
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7 | Among the letters of congratulation which Manning… | 12:07 |
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8 | After leaving Naples, Newman visited Loreto… | 08:59 |
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9 | Newman, in a kind of despair, had flung himself… | 08:21 |
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10 | IV | 10:16 |
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11 | At last he became convalescent; but the spiritual… | 08:56 |
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12 | At last, in the seclusion of his library, Manning turned… | 13:18 |
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13 | V | 11:26 |
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14 | The Archbishop of Trebizond had been for some time… | 13:24 |
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15 | It was determined that the coalition should be ratified… | 10:17 |
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16 | VI | 09:17 |
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17 | The years that followed showed to what extent it was… | 09:15 |
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18 | Such were Newman's thoughts when an unexpected… | 10:44 |
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19 | The confederates matured their plans. While Newman… | 07:16 |
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20 | VII | 10:53 |
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21 | The Rome which Manning reached towards the close… | 11:25 |
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22 | Two main issues, it soon appeared, were before them… | 12:48 |
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23 | VIII | 12:44 |
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24 | IX | 09:41 |
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25 | X | 13:01 |
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26 | Florence Nightingale | 12:58 |
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27 | II | 12:44 |
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28 | Miss Nightingale came, and she, at any rate, in that… | 09:27 |
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29 | All at once, word came from the Crimea that a great… | 10:06 |
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30 | At one time, during several weeks, her vituperations… | 10:53 |
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31 | III | 13:21 |
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32 | Of Miss Nightingale's friends, the most important… | 09:32 |
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33 | Two facts soon emerged, and all that followed turned… | 08:14 |
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34 | Her wits began to turn, and there was no holding her. | 06:48 |
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35 | Meanwhile, still ravenous for yet more and more work… | 10:17 |
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36 | IV | 06:00 |
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37 | With statesmen and governors at her beck and call… | 14:23 |
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38 | V | 06:26 |
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39 | Dr Arnold | 09:30 |
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40 | From two sides this system of education was… | 08:56 |
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41 | It was obvious that the primitive methods of discipline… | 09:56 |
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42 | At the end of the evening service, the culminating… | 11:48 |
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43 | Dr Arnold waited in vain. But, he did not wait in idleness. | 09:50 |
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44 | Once or twice he found time to visit the Continent… | 08:31 |
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45 | In the earlier years of his headmastership Dr Arnold… | 11:01 |
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46 | The end of General Gordon | 12:59 |
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47 | In eighteen months, he told Li Hung Chang… | 08:23 |
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48 | Gordon resigned his command; and it was only with… | 11:03 |
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49 | His seclusion came to an end in a distinctly providential… | 08:38 |
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50 | At the end of three years, Gordon resigned his post in… | 14:14 |
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51 | There is an ancient tradition in the Mohammedan… | 10:21 |
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52 | El Obeid fell in January, 1883. Meanwhile, events of… | 08:50 |
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53 | Meanwhile, not only the Government, but the public… | 09:05 |
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54 | A few days later, it appeared that the conversation… | 11:22 |
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55 | How, then, are we to explain the Government's action? | 08:23 |
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56 | In Cairo, in spite of the hostilities of the past… | 12:32 |
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57 | The original Sultans of the country had unfortunately… | 09:02 |
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58 | The old statesman was now entering upon the… | 10:14 |
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59 | One of the last telegrams sent by Gordon before the… | 07:58 |
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60 | On one side of him was a veering and vacillating… | 13:14 |
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61 | Lord Hartington's conscience was of a piece with the… | 10:01 |
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62 | When Mr Gladstone read the words, he realised that… | 09:51 |
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63 | From the past, he turned to the future, and surveyed… | 09:20 |
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64 | He spent long hours upon the palace roof, gazing… | 13:07 |
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65 | The delay of the expedition was even more serious… | 07:26 |
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66 | When the English force reached Metemmah… | 09:32 |
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Total Playing Time: 11:15:24