Literary EssaysA companion volume to Biographical Essays, this collection of twenty-five pieces includes two of Strachey's finest critical essays, "Shakespeare's Final Period" and "English Letter Writers." Index. |
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Lytton Strachey. A RUSSIAN HUMORIST ' Look well at the face of Dostoievsky , half a Russian peasant's face , half a criminal physiognomy , flat nose , small penetrating eyes beneath lids that quiver with a nervous affection ; look at the ...
Lytton Strachey. A RUSSIAN HUMORIST ' Look well at the face of Dostoievsky , half a Russian peasant's face , half a criminal physiognomy , flat nose , small penetrating eyes beneath lids that quiver with a nervous affection ; look at the ...
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... look back on an end- less vista of identical admonitions , and knew that he must look forward to another vista equally infinite , the horror of their perusal must have been unimaginable . ' Good God ! ' he used to read at breakfast ...
... look back on an end- less vista of identical admonitions , and knew that he must look forward to another vista equally infinite , the horror of their perusal must have been unimaginable . ' Good God ! ' he used to read at breakfast ...
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... Look , look , how they are all piled up like rotten oranges ! 999 Byron , writing sixty years later , gives the following account of a similar incident : ' The day before I left Rome I saw three robbers guillotined . The ceremony ...
... Look , look , how they are all piled up like rotten oranges ! 999 Byron , writing sixty years later , gives the following account of a similar incident : ' The day before I left Rome I saw three robbers guillotined . The ceremony ...
Contents
SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
OTHELLO CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES | 24 |
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