LYTTON STRACHEY


Some of these papers appeared originally in the Times Literary Supplement and the Dial. I have to thank the Editors for allowing me to reprint them here; some are based upon articles written for various newspapers, while others appear now for the first time.


CONTENTS

[The Common Reader]
[The Pastons and Chaucer]
[On Not Knowing Greek]
[The Elizabethan Lumber Room]
[Notes on an Elizabethan Play]
[Montaigne]
[The Duchess of Newcastle]
[Rambling Round Evelyn]
[Defoe]
[Addison]
[The Lives of the Obscure]
I. [The Taylors and the Edgeworths]
II. [Laetitia Pilkington]
III. [Miss Ormerod]
[Jane Austen]
[Modern Fiction]
["Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights"]
[George Eliot]
[The Russian Point of View]
[Outlines—]
I. [Miss Mitford]
II. [Dr. Bentley]
III. [Lady Dorothy Nevill]
IV. [Archbishop Thomson]
[The Patron and the Crocus]
[The Modern Essay]
[Joseph Conrad]
[How It Strikes a Contemporary]