All Passion Spent

Author : Vita Sackville-West
Publisher : Random House
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473522688

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All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West Pdf

A charming extraordinary early 20th century novel about family relationships. When the great statesman Lord Slane dies, everyone assumes his dutiful wife will slowly fade away, the paying guest of each of her six children. But Lady Slane surprises everyone by escaping to a rented house in Hampstead where she revels in her new freedom, revives youthful ambitions and gathers some very unsuitable companions. Irreverent, entertaining and insightful, this is a tale of the unexpected joys of growing older. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOANNA LUMLEY

Author : Vita Sackville-West
Publisher : Random House
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781784870553

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All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West Pdf

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOANNA LUMLEY When the great statesman Lord Slane dies, everyone assumes his dutiful wife will slowly fade away, the paying guest of each of her six children. But Lady Slane surprises everyone by escaping to a rented house in Hampstead where she revels in her new freedom, revives youthful ambitions and gathers some very unsuitable companions. Irreverent, entertaining and insightful, this is a tale of the unexpected joys of growing older.

Author : Zaheda Hina
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789383074334

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All Passion Spent by Zaheda Hina Pdf

In the mid-nineties Birjees Dawar Ali returns to Pakistan to seek out a history left unfinished long ago, a history from which, nursing heartbreak and betrayal, she had once earlier fled, back to her home in partitioned India. Will she find the family that so generously gave her succour, the home that became her own, the people who gave her unquestioning love? Or will all these certainties have fled with the march of history? A deeply moving narrative of love and loss, All Passion Spent focuses on the unresolved question of the 1947 Partition of India and the emergence of India and Pakistan as two separate countries. Zaheda Hina’s richly layered narrative, brought alive in this lyrical and poetic translation by Neelam Husain, touches on the many unanswered questions that surround this painful history—the profound sense of grief and displacement, the lives sundered midstream, the lost friendships and the quest for new roots and lands under different skies.

Author : Dymphna Cusack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Drama
ISBN : UVA:X001862260

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Jungfrau by Dymphna Cusack Pdf

An adaptation of Dymphna Cusak's acclaimed first novel published in 1935 & set in Australia's Bloomsbury set of free thinking liberals: poetic portrayal of three women.

Author : Vita Sackville-West
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781250087386

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Vita Sackville-West by Vita Sackville-West Pdf

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.

Author : Vita Sackville-West
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:8596547193562

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Passenger to Teheran by Vita Sackville-West Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Passenger to Teheran" by Vita Sackville-West. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Vita Sackville-West,Sarah Raven
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1844088960

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Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst by Vita Sackville-West,Sarah Raven Pdf

A lavish hardback celebrating one of Britain's best-loved gardens.

Author : George Steiner
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780571266524

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No Passion Spent by George Steiner Pdf

This is an extraordinary collection of essays by one of this country's most exciting and dramatic thinkers.The essays span a considerable time. But they turn on a central, compelling theme. What is meant by reading a serious text at a time when theories of language and literature question the very possibility of any agreed meaning, and at a time when new technologies seem likely to replace books as we have known them since Gutenberg. This question is brought to bear deliberately on the touchstone examples: the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare. Also on Kierkegaard and Kafka. The closely-meshed collection ends with a series of essays on the philosophic-theological underwriting of communication, with particular reference to what language tells us of Socrates and of Jesus. These essays by George Steiner, distinguished critic and Extraordinary Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, seek to conjoin the themes argued in such books as The Death of Tragedy, Language and Silence, After Babel and Real Presences. They speak of a profound, if sometimes troubled, joy.

Author : Louise A. DeSalvo,Mitchell A. Leaska
Publisher : Cleis Press Inc
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1573441961

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The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf by Louise A. DeSalvo,Mitchell A. Leaska Pdf

After they met in 1922, Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf began a passionate relationship that lasted until Woolf's death in 1941. Their revealing correspondence leaves no aspect of their lives untouched. This volume, which features over 500 letters spanning 19 years, includes the writings of both of these literary icons.

Author : Nigel Nicolson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781474610865

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Vita and Harold by Nigel Nicolson Pdf

The classic story of the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and a unique portrait of the Bloomsbury Group. 'Vita and Harold have become part of our literature' OBSERVER The marriage of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson was one of the most controversial relationships of the 20th century. This selection of letters, many of which have never been published, skilfully woven together by their son, Nigel Nicolson, gives dramatic new insight into their fascinating lives. Set within a framework of their son's highly personal memories, the story of this most extraordinary of marriages comes full circle - from the announcement of their engagement in 1912, through the storm days of Vita's well-known affairs with Violet Trefusis and Virginia Woolf, during the years of long separation as Harold's profession as a diplomat took him abroad, and culminating in the days leading up to Vita's death in 1962.

Author : Nigel Nicolson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226583570

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Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson Pdf

Vita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgynous time-traveler in Orlando. The story of her love affair with Violet Keppel Trefusis in 1920 is one of intrigue and bewilderment. In Portrait of a Marriage, Nigel Nicolson combines his mother's vivid memoir of escapade with what he learned from copious family letters and explains the context of this romantic crisis. He also describes how Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson went on to live the rest of their lives in harmonious marriage.

Author : Vita Sackville-West
Publisher : Virago
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1985-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0860685780

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No Signposts in the Sea by Vita Sackville-West Pdf

Edmund Carr is at sea in more ways than one. An eminent journalist and self-made man, he has recently discovered that he has only a short time to live. Leaving his job on a Fleet Street paper, he takes a passage on a cruise ship where he knows that Laura, a beautiful and intelligent widow whom he secretly admires, will be a fellow passenger. Exhilarated by the distant vista of exotic islands never to be visited and his conversations with Laura, Edmund finds himself rethinking all his values. A voyage on many levels, those long purposeless days at sea find Edumnd relinquishing the past as he discovers the joys and the pain of a love he is simultaneously determined to conceal.

Author : Kenneth Tynan
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-01
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 0747558418

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The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan by Kenneth Tynan Pdf

One of the publishing sensations of the year' Daily Telegraph..'Packed with scandal and salacious anecdotes about his famous friends and, believe me, it is premier-cru gossip' Tatler

Author : Victoria Sackville-West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Country life
ISBN : UOM:39015002753146

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The Land by Victoria Sackville-West Pdf

Author : Vita Sackville-West
Publisher : Random House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473552944

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Family History by Vita Sackville-West Pdf

Evelyn, aged thirty-nine, is an attractive widow living an irreproachable life. Then she meets Miles, fifteen years her junior, and falls passionately in love. But both lovers have strong personalities and passion does not equal happiness. Evelyn, deeply jealous and conventional is shocked at her lover's casual ways and his insistence on working all day. Miles’s love for Evelyn is real but he cannot devote himself wholly to her whims. Vita Sackville-West collides attitudes to work, sex and society in the changing world of the early 1930s.