Leonard Woolf
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although Leonard Woolf has long been revered as one of the great literary minds of the 20th century, he is seldom remembered as a writer of fiction. While his novel The Village in the Jungle has the status of a minor classic, his superb collection of short stories dating back to his time as a colonial administrator in Ceylon has been almost completely forgotten. The stories provide disturbing commentaries about the disintegration of the colonial process...
2) Love letters
Author
Publisher
Pimlico
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
xxiii, 312 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"To know you and love you has been the best thing in life." -Leonard Woolf wrote to Trekkie Parsons in 1942. Trekkie, a painter and book illustrator, was married to the publisher Ian Parsons who was away at war. Leonard was 61, Trekkie 39. They first got to know each other a few months after Virginia Woolf's suicide. When Ian came back from the war, they became even closer. Trekkie, a feisty feminist, had never wanted a husband and now, it seemed,...
Author
Series
Harvest book volume HB189
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Virginia Woolf's lyrical, inventive last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart of England on the eve of World War II.
"Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life." Between the Acts takes place on a June day in 1939 at Pointz Hall, the Oliver family's country house in the heart of England. In the garden, everyone from the village has gathered to present the annual pageant ??-?? scenes...
Author
Series
Harvest book volume HB264
Language
English
Description
Extracts drawn by Virginia Woolf's husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years offer insight into the art and mind of the twentieth-century author.
