All Passion Spent

Author : Vita Sackville-West
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1784870552
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Passion Spent written by Vita Sackville-West and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Vita Sackville-West
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473522684
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Passion Spent written by Vita Sackville-West and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Zaheda Hina
Publisher : Zubaan
ISBN 13 : 9383074337
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Passion Spent written by Zaheda Hina and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Vita Sackville-West
Publisher : Virago
ISBN 13 : 1405517956
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst written by Vita Sackville-West and published by Virago. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1946 to 1957, Vita Sackville-West, the poet, bestselling author of All Passion Spent and maker of Sissinghurst, wrote a weekly column in the Observer describing her life at Sissinghurst, showing her to be one of the most visionary horticulturalists of the twentieth-century. With wonderful additions by Sarah Raven, Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst draws on this extraordinary archive, revealing Vita's most loved flowers, as well as offering practical advice for gardeners. Often funny and completely accessibly written with colour and originality, it also describes details of the trials and tribulations of crafting a place of beauty and elegance. Sissinghurst has gone on to become one of the most visited and inspirational gardens in the world and this marvellous book, illustrated with drawings and original photographs throughout, shows us how it was created and how gardeners everywhere can use some of the ideas from both Sarah Raven and Vita Sackville-West.

Author : Nigel Nicolson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226583570
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portrait of a Marriage written by Nigel Nicolson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Dymphna Cusack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jungfrau written by Dymphna Cusack and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Louise A. DeSalvo
Publisher : Cleis Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781573441964
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf written by Louise A. DeSalvo and published by Cleis Press Inc. This book was released on 2004-01-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Vita Sackville-West
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250087384
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vita Sackville-West written by Vita Sackville-West and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : George Steiner
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571266525
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Passion Spent written by George Steiner and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Victoria Sackville-West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land written by Victoria Sackville-West and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: