Eminent Victorians: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Eminent Victorians, credited to Giles Lytton Strachey, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Eminent Victorians, by Giles Lytton Strachey. Read by Margaret Espaillat. On Modern Library's list of 100 Best Non-Fiction books, "Eminent Victorians" marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which chauvinism, hypocrisy and the stiff upper lip were debunked. In it, Strachey cleverly exposes the self-seeking ambitions of Cardinal Manning and the manipulative, neurotic Florence Nightingale; and in his essays on Dr Arnold and General Gordon, his quarries are not only his subjects but also the public-school system and the whole structure of nineteenth-century liberal values.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Eminent Victorians
• Author credits: Giles Lytton Strachey
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 23
• Listed recording duration: 12:02:34

Catalogue topics

• non-fiction
• biography
• Victorian era
• Cardinal Manning
• Florence Nightingale
• Dr. Arnold
• General Gordon
• public school

Track guide

1. 01 - Preface and Cardinal Manning, Chapter 1 — 20:12
2. 02 - Cardinal Manning, Chapter 2 — 29:02
3. 03 - Cardinal Manning, Chapter 3 — 39:55
4. 04 - Cardinal Manning, Chapter 4 — 33:05
5. 05 - Cardinal Manning, Chapter 5 — 37:15
6. 06 - Cardinal Manning, Chapter 6 — 37:20
7. 07 - Cardinal Manning, Chapter 7 — 37:25
8. 08 - Cardinal Manning, Chapter 8 — 13:33
9. 09 - Cardinal Manning, Chapter 9 — 10:23
10. 10 - Cardinal Manning, Chapter 10 — 13:50
11. 11 - Florence Nightingale, Chapter 1 — 14:01
12. 12 - Florence Nightingale, Chapter 2 — 49:03
13. 13 - Florence Nightingale, Chapter 3 — 54:18
14. 14 - Florence Nightingale, Chapters 4 & 5 — 29:13
15. 15 - Dr. Arnold, Part 1 — 36:39
16. 16 - Dr. Arnold, Part 2 — 37:26
17. 17 - The End of General Gordon, Part 1 — 34:37
18. 18 - The End of General Gordon, Part 2 — 28:41
19. 19 - The End of General Gordon, Part 3 — 30:02
20. 20 - The End of General Gordon, Part 4 — 29:46
21. 21 - The End of General Gordon, Part 5 — 35:12
22. 22 - The End of General Gordon, Part 6 — 36:24
23. 23 - The End of General Gordon, Part 7 — 35:20

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