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Eminent Victorians (Unabridged)

Eminent Victorians (Unabridged)

Eminent Victorians (Unabridged)

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  • Release date: 24th Aug 2020
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Catalogue number: NA0474
  • Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Lytton Strachey: Eminent Victorians (Unabridged)
Work length11:14:44
  • Recording Venue: SNK Studios, London, UK
Eminent Victorians
Track length5:28
Cardinal Manning
Track length3:02
I
Track length10:41
II
Track length14:16
When Froude succeeded in impregnating Newman…
Track length13:51
III
Track length7:37
Among the letters of congratulation which Manning…
Track length12:07
After leaving Naples, Newman visited Loreto…
Track length8:59
Newman, in a kind of despair, had flung himself…
Track length8:20
IV
Track length10:16
At last he became convalescent; but the spiritual…
Track length8:55
At last, in the seclusion of his library, Manning turned…
Track length13:18
V
Track length11:26
The Archbishop of Trebizond had been for some time…
Track length13:24
It was determined that the coalition should be ratified…
Track length10:17
VI
Track length9:17
The years that followed showed to what extent it was…
Track length9:15
Such were Newman's thoughts when an unexpected…
Track length10:43
The confederates matured their plans. While Newman…
Track length7:15
VII
Track length10:53
The Rome which Manning reached towards the close…
Track length11:24
Two main issues, it soon appeared, were before them…
Track length12:48
VIII
Track length12:43
IX
Track length9:41
X
Track length13:00
Florence Nightingale
Track length12:58
II
Track length12:44
Miss Nightingale came, and she, at any rate, in that…
Track length9:26
All at once, word came from the Crimea that a great…
Track length10:05
At one time, during several weeks, her vituperations…
Track length10:52
III
Track length13:20
Of Miss Nightingale's friends, the most important…
Track length9:31
Two facts soon emerged, and all that followed turned…
Track length8:14
Her wits began to turn, and there was no holding her.
Track length6:47
Meanwhile, still ravenous for yet more and more work…
Track length10:16
IV
Track length6:00
With statesmen and governors at her beck and call…
Track length14:22
V
Track length6:25
Dr Arnold
Track length9:29
From two sides this system of education was…
Track length8:55
It was obvious that the primitive methods of discipline…
Track length9:56
At the end of the evening service, the culminating…
Track length11:47
Dr Arnold waited in vain. But, he did not wait in idleness.
Track length9:50
Once or twice he found time to visit the Continent…
Track length8:30
In the earlier years of his headmastership Dr Arnold…
Track length11:01
The end of General Gordon
Track length12:58
In eighteen months, he told Li Hung Chang…
Track length8:22
Gordon resigned his command; and it was only with…
Track length11:02
His seclusion came to an end in a distinctly providential…
Track length8:37
At the end of three years, Gordon resigned his post in…
Track length14:14
There is an ancient tradition in the Mohammedan…
Track length10:21
El Obeid fell in January, 1883. Meanwhile, events of…
Track length8:49
Meanwhile, not only the Government, but the public…
Track length9:04
A few days later, it appeared that the conversation…
Track length11:22
How, then, are we to explain the Government's action?
Track length8:22
In Cairo, in spite of the hostilities of the past…
Track length12:31
The original Sultans of the country had unfortunately…
Track length9:01
The old statesman was now entering upon the…
Track length10:13
One of the last telegrams sent by Gordon before the…
Track length7:58
On one side of him was a veering and vacillating…
Track length13:13
Lord Hartington's conscience was of a piece with the…
Track length10:00
When Mr Gladstone read the words, he realised that…
Track length9:50
From the past, he turned to the future, and surveyed…
Track length9:20
He spent long hours upon the palace roof, gazing…
Track length13:06
The delay of the expedition was even more serious…
Track length7:26
When the English force reached Metemmah…
Track length9:31
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