Portraits of Genius

Classic biography of the brilliant and the famous — Boswell’s Johnson, Strachey’s Victorians, Plutarch’s ancients.

The great, drawn from the life

In this collection

• Shakespeare and Christmas
• The Precious Volume
• The Centenary of Leconte De Lisle
• A Tomb in Bayswater
• Benvenuto Cellini
• On Christopher Marlowe
• The Rev. Mr. Carter, Parson-Publican
• The Greatest Story in the World, Period 2
• A Tribute
• Verlaine
• German Wit: Henry Heine
• Something of Myself
• Twelve Types
• In God's Garden: Saint Catherine of Siena
• The Boy-General
• A Picture of Stirling
• The Spirit of American Sculpture
• Lessons from the Life of Florence Nightingale

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