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)

Tracklist

Strachey, Lytton - Author
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
1Eminent Victorians05:29
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
2Cardinal Manning03:03
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
3I10:42
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
4II14:17
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
5When Froude succeeded in impregnating Newman…13:52
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
6III07:37
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
7Among the letters of congratulation which Manning…12:07
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
8After leaving Naples, Newman visited Loreto…08:59
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
9Newman, in a kind of despair, had flung himself…08:21
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
10IV10:16
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
11At last he became convalescent; but the spiritual…08:56
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
12At last, in the seclusion of his library, Manning turned…13:18
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
13V11:26
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
14The Archbishop of Trebizond had been for some time…13:24
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
15It was determined that the coalition should be ratified…10:17
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
16VI09:17
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
17The years that followed showed to what extent it was…09:15
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
18Such were Newman's thoughts when an unexpected…10:44
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
19The confederates matured their plans. While Newman…07:16
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
20VII10:53
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
21The Rome which Manning reached towards the close…11:25
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
22Two main issues, it soon appeared, were before them…12:48
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
23VIII12:44
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
24IX09:41
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
25X13:01
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
26Florence Nightingale12:58
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
27II12:44
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
28Miss Nightingale came, and she, at any rate, in that…09:27
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
29All at once, word came from the Crimea that a great…10:06
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
30At one time, during several weeks, her vituperations…10:53
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
31III13:21
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
32Of Miss Nightingale's friends, the most important…09:32
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
33Two facts soon emerged, and all that followed turned…08:14
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
34Her wits began to turn, and there was no holding her.06:48
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
35Meanwhile, still ravenous for yet more and more work…10:17
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
36IV06:00
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
37With statesmen and governors at her beck and call…14:23
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
38V06:26
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
39Dr Arnold09:30
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
40From two sides this system of education was…08:56
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
41It was obvious that the primitive methods of discipline…09:56
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
42At the end of the evening service, the culminating…11:48
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
43Dr Arnold waited in vain. But, he did not wait in idleness.09:50
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
44Once or twice he found time to visit the Continent…08:31
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
45In the earlier years of his headmastership Dr Arnold…11:01
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
46The end of General Gordon12:59
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
47In eighteen months, he told Li Hung Chang…08:23
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
48Gordon resigned his command; and it was only with…11:03
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
49His seclusion came to an end in a distinctly providential…08:38
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
50At the end of three years, Gordon resigned his post in…14:14
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
51There is an ancient tradition in the Mohammedan…10:21
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
52El Obeid fell in January, 1883. Meanwhile, events of…08:50
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
53Meanwhile, not only the Government, but the public…09:05
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
54A few days later, it appeared that the conversation…11:22
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
55How, then, are we to explain the Government's action?08:23
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
56In Cairo, in spite of the hostilities of the past…12:32
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
57The original Sultans of the country had unfortunately…09:02
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
58The old statesman was now entering upon the…10:14
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
59One of the last telegrams sent by Gordon before the…07:58
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
60On one side of him was a veering and vacillating…13:14
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
61Lord Hartington's conscience was of a piece with the…10:01
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
62When Mr Gladstone read the words, he realised that…09:51
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
63From the past, he turned to the future, and surveyed…09:20
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
64He spent long hours upon the palace roof, gazing…13:07
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
65The delay of the expedition was even more serious…07:26
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)
66When the English force reached Metemmah…09:32
Keeble, Jonathan (Reader)

Total Playing Time: 11:15:24