MICHAEL HOLROYD’S two-volume Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, $21.95) runs to almost 1200 large pages and well beyond half a million words. A performance so ...
No feature of the literary history of Europe in the last few years is more remarkable than the simultaneous appearance in Germany, France, and England of a new conception of biography. Emil Ludwig in ...
One hundred years ago Lytton Strachey brought out "Eminent Victorians," four novella-length biographical essays, composed in burnished, exquisitely ironic prose, that took gleeful aim at Cardinal ...