
Eminent Victorians
Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon
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Robert Bethune
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Lytton Strachey
When Lytton Strachey published Emininent Victorians, he took the general perception of the Victorian age among English-speaking readers and turned it upside-down. Four of the most eminent and idealized heroic figures of the Victorian age came under his witty and unsparing gaze and emerged, astonishingly enough, as human beings.
His study of one of the most revered prelates in England, Cardinal Manning, reveals a profound and courageous religious mind combined with the conniving and ruthless soul of a born politician. His dissection of the life of Florence Nightingale shows her both as the Lady of the Lamp and as a woman of steely backbone and adamantine determination, who not only cared for wounded and sick soldiers with complete dedication and solicitude, but who wreaked holy hell on any bureaucrat or governmental office that tried to get in her way.
When Strachey is finished with Dr. Arnold, we understand him as a revolutionary reformer of English education and as a first-rate prig. And when Strachey finishes leading us through the life of General George Gordon, we come away having known him both as a man of extraordinary courage and as a near-lunatic.
Fascinating, witty, insightful and provoking, these four biographical studies single-handedly revived the art of biography in the English language.
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What disappointed you about Eminent Victorians?
I'm a veteran Audible listener, with over 300 books under by belt, and I have to say that this has been the only one for which I have been tempted to ask for a refund. The narrator is excruciating to listen to. He has the most affected, odd and irritating accent and manner I have ever heard. I kept thinking I had heard this voice somewhere else, and it finally dawned on me that is was Mr. Burns on The Simpsons. He variably mispronounces frequently occurring words like "schism" and has the singular pronunciation of the words "England" and "English", pronouncing the "E" as in "egg". I was born and raised in the U.S. and educated in England and have never heard this peculiar affectation. I have read the book, and it is a classic commentary on Victorian England. I can try to forgive not having a British narrator, but to have an American narrator that employs a heretofore unknown accent while at the same time completely bungling every English proper name (e.g. "Gladstone"}, is simply unforgivable. I hate to be harsh, but caveat emptor: this Audible pick is a waste of time and money.What was one of the most memorable moments of Eminent Victorians?
When I finally gave up on it.How did the narrator detract from the book?
In every way possible. Can there really be an actual person who talks this way?What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Anger, yes. Disappointment, yes. Flat-out dismay that, once this narrator started reading, the producer let him continue, yes.Please listen to the sample before you buy this!
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But why not a British narrator? Sri excellent though!
Witty account
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It sounds like a Drunk narcissist is reading this
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