Aristocrat, novelist, essayist, traveler, and lover of Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West lived a fascinating and daring life on the periphery of the Bloomsbury circle. She wrote in an astounding variety of genres, including travel narrative, historical and literary studies, poetry, fiction, and essays, and is probably best known or her novels, The Edwardians and All Passion Spent, and incomparable writings about English country houses and gardens. Here, for the first time, is an anthology that represents the full expanse of her interests and styles. Over half of the works, including intimate…mehr
Aristocrat, novelist, essayist, traveler, and lover of Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West lived a fascinating and daring life on the periphery of the Bloomsbury circle. She wrote in an astounding variety of genres, including travel narrative, historical and literary studies, poetry, fiction, and essays, and is probably best known or her novels, The Edwardians and All Passion Spent, and incomparable writings about English country houses and gardens. Here, for the first time, is an anthology that represents the full expanse of her interests and styles. Over half of the works, including intimate diaries and a dream notebook, have never been published. Edited by a foremost expert on the Bloomsbury circle, Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings provides the best and most accessible introduction to this unique writer.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Mary Ann Caws is a renowned critic of the Bloomsbury circle, modernism, and surrealism. She is Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature and Co-Director of the Henri Peyre French Institute at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Preface by Nigel Nicolson is the son of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. He recently published a biography of Virginia Woolf in the Penguin Lives series and is the author of the acclaimedPortrait of a Marriage.
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Preface by Nigel Nicolson Introduction Diaries and Dreams Victoria Sackville-West, Diary Selections Vita Sackville-West, Diary Selections Vita's Dream Notebook Memoirs Beginnings Thirty Clocks Strike the Hour Letters Family Letters Sons and Mothers Vita Sackville-West/Harold Nicolson letters Vita Sackville-West/Virginia Woolf Travel Writing From Passenger to Tehran From Twelve Days in the Bakhtiari Mountains Vita's US Travel Diary Critical Writing Some Tendencies of Modern English Poetry Andrew Marvell Gardening and Houses From Knole and the Sackvilles From Country Notes From English Country Houses From Joy of Gardening Short Stories The Engagement The Poet The Poetry Reading Novels From Challenge Seducers in Ecuador Poetry Sissinghurst The Muezzin: Constantiople Palmyra A Bowl of Blue Beads Persia Storm in the Mountains: For Hilda Matheson The Quarryman The Temple of Love Dawn Middleton Place, South Carolina In Memoriam: Virginia Woolf The Intellectual to His Puppy Winter Afternoon From Autumn Selected Bibliography Glossary of the Works of Vita Sackville-West
Preface by Nigel Nicolson Introduction Diaries and Dreams Victoria Sackville-West, Diary Selections Vita Sackville-West, Diary Selections Vita's Dream Notebook Memoirs Beginnings Thirty Clocks Strike the Hour Letters Family Letters Sons and Mothers Vita Sackville-West/Harold Nicolson letters Vita Sackville-West/Virginia Woolf Travel Writing From Passenger to Tehran From Twelve Days in the Bakhtiari Mountains Vita's US Travel Diary Critical Writing Some Tendencies of Modern English Poetry Andrew Marvell Gardening and Houses From Knole and the Sackvilles From Country Notes From English Country Houses From Joy of Gardening Short Stories The Engagement The Poet The Poetry Reading Novels From Challenge Seducers in Ecuador Poetry Sissinghurst The Muezzin: Constantiople Palmyra A Bowl of Blue Beads Persia Storm in the Mountains: For Hilda Matheson The Quarryman The Temple of Love Dawn Middleton Place, South Carolina In Memoriam: Virginia Woolf The Intellectual to His Puppy Winter Afternoon From Autumn Selected Bibliography Glossary of the Works of Vita Sackville-West
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