Queen Victoria
by Lytton Strachey
352 pages~6 hrs
“A portrait of royalty, stripped of its reverence.”
Lytton Strachey’s groundbreaking biography shatters the marble image of the legendary monarch to reveal a woman of passion, prejudice, and unexpected depth. With razor-sharp wit and a sardonic eye, this classic work transforms a royal icon into a fascinatingly human figure.
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