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Vintage Penguin First Edition. #767. Lytton Strachey’s Elizabeth and Essex is a sharp, psychologically rich study of the fraught relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. Strachey blends elegant prose with incisive character analysis, exploring ambition, ageing, power and emotional volatility at the Tudor court. This Penguin edition presents the biography in a compact, accessible format, making it an appealing volume for readers of Tudor history, literary biography and classic mid-century Penguins.

Title: Elizabeth and Essex

Author: Lytton Strachey

Publisher: Penguin

Publication Date: 1950

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 238

Condition: Good

Our Ref: mon0001647538

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