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Carrington's Letters

Her Art, Her Loves, Her Friendships

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Carrington's beguiling letters take us beyond the Bloomsbury group to discuss sexual mores, how to be an artist, and what it is to be truly oneself.Known only by her surname, Dora Carrington was the star of her year at the Slade School of Fine Art, and was friends with some of the greatest minds of her day, including Virginia Woolf, Rosamund Lehmann and Maynard Keynes.For over a decade she was the ... Read more

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Carrington's beguiling letters take us beyond the Bloomsbury group to discuss sexual mores, how to be an artist, and what it is to be truly oneself.Known only by her surname, Dora Carrington was the star of her year at the Slade School of Fine Art, and was friends with some of the greatest minds of her day, including Virginia Woolf, Rosamund Lehmann and Maynard Keynes.For over a decade she was the
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Penelope Fitzgerald

A Life

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Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2014Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best BiographyNew York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the YearPenelope Fitzgerald (1916–2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand terms. Her novels were short, spare masterpieces, self-concealing, oblique and subtle. She won the Booker Prize for her novel ... Read more

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Winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2014Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best BiographyNew York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the YearPenelope Fitzgerald (1916–2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand terms. Her novels were short, spare masterpieces, self-concealing, oblique and subtle. She won the Booker Prize for her novel
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The Complete Works of Virginia Woolf

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Enter the innovative literary world of one of the defining voices of literary modernism. The Complete Works of Virginia Woolf brings together the major writings of Virginia Woolf, one of the most influential English writers of the twentieth century and a central figure of literary modernism. Woolf transformed the possibilities of fiction through her experimental use of stream of consciousness, ... Read more

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Enter the innovative literary world of one of the defining voices of literary modernism. The Complete Works of Virginia Woolf brings together the major writings of Virginia Woolf, one of the most influential English writers of the twentieth century and a central figure of literary modernism. Woolf transformed the possibilities of fiction through her experimental use of stream of consciousness,
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Experiments in Living 1900-1939

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'Racy, vivacious, warm-hearted. Offers an illuminating and well-researched portrait of life among the artists, a century ago' TLSSubversive, eccentric and flamboyant, the artistic community in the first half of the twentieth century were ingaged in a grand experiment.The Bohemians ate garlic and didn't always wash; they painted and danced and didn't care what people thought. They sent their
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All My Road Before Me

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A repackaged edition of the revered authors diary from his early twenties-a thought-provoking work that reveals his earliest thinking about war, atheism, religion, and humanity.While serving his country in the Great War, C. S. Lewis the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, and Christian apologist-made a pact with a close friend and fellow soldier. If one of them died, the ... Read more

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Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

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Series Book 28 - Delphi Parts Edition (Virginia Woolf)
This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Moments of Being by Virginia Woolf - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Virginia Woolf’.Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for ... Read more

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Diaries, 1971-1983

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Funny, indiscreet, candid, touching and sharply observed, this second compilation from James Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries covers his life during his sixties and early seventies, when he was living in Gloucestershire with his formidable wife Alvilde. It vividly portrays life on the Badminton estate of the eccentric Duke of Beaufort, meetings with many friends (including John Betjeman, Bruce ... Read more

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Funny, indiscreet, candid, touching and sharply observed, this second compilation from James Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries covers his life during his sixties and early seventies, when he was living in Gloucestershire with his formidable wife Alvilde. It vividly portrays life on the Badminton estate of the eccentric Duke of Beaufort, meetings with many friends (including John Betjeman, Bruce
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Diaries, 1984-1997

by James Lees-Milne, Michael Bloch ...

This final compilation from James Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries covers the last fourteen years of his life, when he was living on the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton estate. Old age and infirmity have not dimmed his sharpness, literary skill or interest in the world around him, and his reflection on people, places and experiences are as vivid as ever. A tour of the Cotsworlds makes him ruefully ... Read more

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This final compilation from James Lees-Milne's celebrated diaries covers the last fourteen years of his life, when he was living on the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton estate. Old age and infirmity have not dimmed his sharpness, literary skill or interest in the world around him, and his reflection on people, places and experiences are as vivid as ever. A tour of the Cotsworlds makes him ruefully
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Virginia Woolf

A Biography

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As the nephew of Virginia Woolf, Quentin Bell enjoyed an initimacy with his subject granted to few biographers. Originally published in two volumes in 1972, his acclaimed biography describes Virginia Woolf's family and childhood; her earliest writings; the formation of the Bloomsbury Group; her marriage to Leonard Woolf; the mental breakdown of the years 1912-15; the origins and growth of the ... Read more

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As the nephew of Virginia Woolf, Quentin Bell enjoyed an initimacy with his subject granted to few biographers. Originally published in two volumes in 1972, his acclaimed biography describes Virginia Woolf's family and childhood; her earliest writings; the formation of the Bloomsbury Group; her marriage to Leonard Woolf; the mental breakdown of the years 1912-15; the origins and growth of the
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3): 1943-57

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The third and final volume of the remarkable Sunday Times bestselling diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon___________________________________________'An utterly addictive glimpse of London high society and politics in the 40s and 50s.' Robert Harris'An instant classic . . . quite simply the greatest social and political diaries of the 20th century.' Daily Telegraph**'Rich, exuberant,... ... Read more

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The third and final volume of the remarkable Sunday Times bestselling diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon___________________________________________'An utterly addictive glimpse of London high society and politics in the 40s and 50s.' Robert Harris'An instant classic . . . quite simply the greatest social and political diaries of the 20th century.' Daily Telegraph**'Rich, exuberant,...
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Enthusiasms

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"Charming" essays on literature and life by the British raconteur who "often finds poignancy or humor in the seemingly trivial" ( Publishers Weekly).Does a neglected masterpiece by Jane Austen enshrine her first love affair? Who was Vita Sackville West's real grandfather? What clues are there to the identity of "Walter," doyen of Victorian pornographers? When and why did P.G. Wodehouse mutate from ... Read more

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The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street

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Collected mid-twentieth–century correspondence between the author of The Pursuit of Love and her former employer, the celebrated London bookseller.Nancy Mitford was a brilliant personality, a remarkable novelist and a legendary letter writer. It is not widely known that she was also a bookseller. From 1942 to 1946 she worked in Heywood Hill's famous shop in Curzon Street, and effectively ran it ... Read more

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Collected mid-twentieth–century correspondence between the author of The Pursuit of Love and her former employer, the celebrated London bookseller.Nancy Mitford was a brilliant personality, a remarkable novelist and a legendary letter writer. It is not widely known that she was also a bookseller. From 1942 to 1946 she worked in Heywood Hill's famous shop in Curzon Street, and effectively ran it
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