All Passion Spent
Title | All Passion Spent PDF eBook |
Author | Vita Sackville-West |
Publisher | Random House |
Total Pages | 194 |
Release | 2016-03-24 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1784870552 |
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.
All Passion Spent
Title | All Passion Spent PDF eBook |
Author | Vita Sackville-West |
Publisher | Random House |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2016-04-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1473522684 |
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
All Passion Spent
Title | All Passion Spent PDF eBook |
Author | Zaheda Hina |
Publisher | Zubaan |
Total Pages | 105 |
Release | 2013-07-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9383074337 |
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.
Portrait of a Marriage
Title | Portrait of a Marriage PDF eBook |
Author | Nigel Nicolson |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | 284 |
Release | 1998-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780226583570 |
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.
Jungfrau
Title | Jungfrau PDF eBook |
Author | Dymphna Cusack |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN |
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.
The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
Title | The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf PDF eBook |
Author | Louise A. DeSalvo |
Publisher | Cleis Press Inc |
Total Pages | 480 |
Release | 2004-01-10 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9781573441964 |
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.
Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst
Title | Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst PDF eBook |
Author | Vita Sackville-West |
Publisher | Virago Press |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 9781844088966 |
A lavish hardback celebrating one of Britain's best-loved gardens.