Poetry Books by Vita (victoria) Sackville-west
Publisher: Uniform Press
Published Date: 2016
Categories: Women agricultural laborers
This is the record of the Women's Land Army since its inception in September 1939, down to 1944. Following on from the success of The Hurricane Story by Paul Gallico, this is the second in the series of military reissues by great literary figures.
Publisher: Aufbau Digital
Published Date: 2020-10-13
Categories: Pets
»Höchst charmant und eine würdige Hommage an die wundersame Wahrhaftigkeit der Spezies, ohne die das Dasein der menschlichen Rasse unvergleichlich düsterer wäre.« The Times Das perfekte Geschenk und »ein Muss für alle Hundefreunde.« Marie Claire Vita Sackville-West, eine der schillerndsten Frauen der Literaturgeschichte, hatte im Verlauf ihres Lebens viele Hunde: darunter Cockerspaniel Pippin, ihres Zeichens die Mutter von Virginia Woolfs Spaniel Pinka, Alsatian Rollo, dessen Portät im berühmten Sissinghurst Castle hängt und Jämthund Canute, der regelmäßig den Bus in die Stadt nahm, wenn ihm langweilig war. In »Gesichter« porträtiert Sackville-West vierundvierzig Hunderassen mit eleganter Leichtigkeit und viel Humor. Charmant und faszinierend zugleich führt uns dieses Buch vor, wie »zutiefst merkwürdig es sein muss, ein Hund zu sein«. Jeder Text wird begleitet von einer Schwarz-Weiß-Fotografie der großartigen Laelia Goehr.
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published Date: 2013-07-25
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
The classic story of the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and a unique portrait of the Bloomsbury Group. The marriage was that between the two writers, Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson and the portrait is drawn partly by Vita herself in an autobiography which she left behind at her death in 1962 and partly by her son, Nigel. It was one of the happiest and strangest marriages there has ever been. Both Vita and Harold were always in love with other people and each gave the other full liberty 'without enquiry or reproach', knowing that their love for each other would be unaffected and even strengthened by the crises which it survived. This account of their love story is now a modern classic.
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Limited
Published Date: 2004
Categories: Gardening
For some fifteen years, from 1946 until 1961, the Observer carried a weekly gardening column by V. Sackville-West. Covering the period 1955-57, Even More For Your Garden is the final volume in a series of four anthologies of her articles, which are arranged according to the month in which they were published.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published Date: 2015-06-09
Categories: Literary Criticism
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.
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published Date: 2014-05-18
Categories: Literary Collections
The Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH (9 March 1892 - 2 June 1962), best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author, poet and gardener. She won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927 and 1933. She was known for her exuberant aristocratic life, her passionate affair with the novelist Virginia Woolf, and Sissinghurst Castle Garden, which she and her husband, Sir Harold Nicolson, created at their estate. The Edwardians (1930) and All Passion Spent (1931) are perhaps her best known novels today. Sackville-West's science-fantasy Grand Canyon (1942) is a "cautionary tale" (as she termed it) about a Nazi invasion of an unprepared United States. The book takes an unsuspected twist, however, in that makes it something more than a typical invasion yarn. In this book: Andrew Marvell, 1939 Grand Canyon, 1942 Country Notes in Wartime, 1940 Country Notes, 1940 The Tale Of Mr. Peter Brown - Chelsea Justice, 1919 Poems of West & East, 1917 The Land, 1926
Publisher: Random House
Published Date: 2018-03-08
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
The two saints whose lives Vita Sackville-West contrasts in this double biography were recorded by very different epithets: 'the great' and 'the little'. Both women were Carmelites, both canonised and both shared the same name. But whilst Teresa of Avila was aristocratic, intellectual, vigorous and humorous, a Spanish woman of the sixteenth century, Thérèse of Lisieux was a guileless and sentimental figure of the French bourgeoisie. Teresa, the great mystic, is the patron saint of Spain; Thérèse, the humble nun, is probably the most beloved saint in the entire Calendar. The extraordinary rise of the cult of both women is scrutinised.
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published Date: 2012-08
Categories: History
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published Date: 2011-12-16
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Vita Sackville-West wrote Saint Joan of Arc in 1936 at the age of forty-four, and had, at that point, already been writing for thirty years. At fourteen, Sackville-West published her first book and, at fourteen, Joan of Arc first heard the voices. Joan was seventeen when she took command of the armies of France--a peasant girl in the early fifteenth century in charge of a nation's forces. At nineteen she was captured by the British and tried as a witch by a church court. Before her twentieth birthday she was burned at the stake. In 1920 she was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church as a saint. In a clever, brisk voice, Vita Sackville-West tells the triumphant story of a French peasant girl, raised in a country torn apart by the Hundred Years' War, who rose from poverty to military greatness. With dazzling insight and clarity, Sackville-West breathes new life into Joan of Arc's beautiful and tragic story.
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published Date: 2012-06-21
Categories: Fiction
CHALLENGE was Vita Sackville-West's second novel. It was ready to go to print in 1920, but the aughor suddenly changed her mind. This was not because she lacked confidence in her work,but because of the scandal it would have caused. CHALLENGE remained unpublished for over fifty years. Vita's love affair with Violet Trefusis had reached its peak, and, eloping to France, they decided to abandon everything and everyone - children and husbands included - to spend the rest of their lives together. Although they returned to their families eventually, CHALLENGE remains a testament of their love, and was written during that period. The hero, Julian, might be a Byronic young Englishman, and Eve the woman he adores; it may be an adventure tale about a revolt on a Greek island. But really, this is a love story, written in the presence of the beloved, and inspired by her. And, as its title implies, the novel is a challenge to the society that condemned Vita and her lover.
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Published Date: 2004
Categories: Gardening
Covering the period 1946-50, In Your Garden is the first volume in a series of four anthologies of V. Sackville-West's articles, which are arranged according to the month in which they were published. Also included are two longer essays by V. Sackville-West, describing a rare seventeenth-century gardening manual and the garden at Hidcote Manor, together with an extract from her 1937 book Some Flowers, which contains vignette descriptions of her favourites.
Publisher: Prion Books
Published Date: 1996
Categories: Architecture
Part of the Writers' Britain series, first published in the 1940s. This book offers a brief history of the English country house from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, and of the people who built and lived in them from common squires to kings and queens.
Publisher: Random House
Published Date: 2016-04-07
Categories: Fiction
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATE WILLIAMS Sebastian is young, handsome and romantic, the heir to a vast and beautiful English country estate. He is a fixed feature in the eternal round of lavish parties, intrigues and traditions at the cold, decadent heart of Edwardian high society. Everyone knows the role he must play, but Sebastian isn't sure he wants the part. Position, privilege and wealth are his, if he can resist the lure of a brave new world.
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Limited
Published Date: 2004
Categories: Gardening
For some fifteen years, from 1946 until 1961, the Observer carried a weekly gardening column by V. Sackville-West. Covering the period 1953-55, More For Your Garden is the third volume in a series of four anthologies of her articles, which are arranged according to the month in which they were published.
Publisher: Random House
Published Date: 2018-03-08
Categories: Fiction
Seducers in Ecuador is the story of Arthur Lomax, every bit the English gentleman in his white ducks and solar topee, enjoying the pleasures of an Egyptian cruise. But with the addition of a pair of blue spectacles to the outfit, Lomax's entire world changes - to alarming, deadly effect. Peregrine Chase in The Heir is the manager of a Wolverhampton insurance company. But when he inherits a moated Tudor house called Blackboys his resistance to change dissolves in the face of its beauty. Under the spell of house and garden, Peregrine's life - and heart - are transformed.
