Queen Victoria

Lytton Strachey
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This is the definitive biography of Britain’s greatest monarch, who “was hailed at once as the mother of her people and as the embodied symbol of their imperial greatness.” “One of the surpassingly beautiful prose achievements of our time” (Chicago Daily News). Index; illustrations.
Genres: BiographyHistoryNonfictionBiography MemoirClassicsBritish LiteratureVictorianHistoricalRoyalty19th Century
448 Pages

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