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Vita Sackville-West
Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 45 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 1985–2026, suosituimpiin kuuluu Mes Favorites: Suivi de Sissinghurst, Un Poeme. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
45 kirjaa
Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 1985–2026.
Portrait Of A Marriage
Nigel Nicolson; Vita Sackville-West
ORION PUBLISHING CO
2024
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The fascinating story of an unconventional, bisexual and powerfully loving relationship and a unique portrait of gender and feminism - with a new introduction from Juliet Nicolson.'A brilliantly structured account of the dramas, infidelities and deep emotional attachments' GUARDIAN'An intimate and controversial account of his bisexual parents' open relationship' NEW YORK TIMES'One of the most absorbing stories, built around two very remarkable people, ever to stray from Gothic fiction into real life' TLSThe 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.
A Joy of Gardening (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
Vita Sackville-West
Warbler Classics
2023
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Vita Sackville-West's charmingly written practical advice for gardeners selected from her immensely popular gardening column in The Observer newspaper. From the book: "The true gardener must be brutal, and imaginative for the future.""The behavior of plants is indeed inexplicable. It breaks all the rules; and that is what makes gardening so endlessly various and interesting.""I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.""Naturally, every garden must be a law to itself.""You cannot expect your soil and your plants to go on giving you of their best if you are not prepared to give something back in return. This is as true of gardens as of human relationships.""The only thing is to be bold; try the experiment; find out."
In 1926 Vita Sackville-West wrote and published this travelogue after traveling to Iran to visit her husband, Harold Nicolson, who was serving as a diplomat in Teheran. Her route was deliberately slow-paced - she stopped in Egypt, where she sailed up the Nile to Luxor; and India, where she visited New Delhi and Agra before sailing across the Persian Gulf to Iraq and on through bandit-infested mountains to Teheran. She returned to England in an equally circuitous manner and despite travelling under dangerous circumstances, through communist Russia and Poland in the midst of revolution, her humour and sense of adventure never failed. Passenger to Teheran is a classic work, revealing the lesser-known side of one of the twentieth century's most luminous authors.
The title story concerns the change of heart of Mr Chase, and insurance clerk who falls in love with the same mansion that he is earlier to sell off. Other stories in the collection are also unique and testimony of Vita's skill as a writer: The Heir The Christmas Party Patience Her Son The Parrot
The Land is a book-length narrative poem by Vita Sackville-West. Published in 1926 by William Heinemann, it is a Georgic celebration of the rural landscape, traditions and history of the Kentish Weald where Sackville-West lived. The poem adopts the traditional Georgic structure of the four seasons and is divided into four parts, running from Winter to Autumn, and documenting the agricultural traditions and changing landscape through the year. The poem's intention to capture the natural processes that exist outside of history are made clear in the opening lines: I sing the cycle of my country's year, I sing the tillage, and the reaping sing, Classic monotony, that modes and wars Leave undisturbed, unbettered, for their best Was born immediate, of expediency. The poems were popular enough for there to be six print runs in the first three years of its publication aided in part by its winning the Hawthornden Prize for Literature.
This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten Alpha Editions has made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for the present and future generations. This whole book has been re-formatted, re-typed and re-designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work, and hence the text is clear and readable.
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia
Vita Sackville-West; Virginia Woolf
Vintage Classics
2021
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Delve into a legendary literary love affair'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you...'At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist - Vita Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in her diary that she didn't think much of Vita's conversation, but she did think very highly of her legs. It was to be the start of almost twenty years of flirtation, friendship, and literary collaboration. Their correspondence ended only with Virginia's death in 1941. Intimate and playful, these selected letters and diary entries allow us to hear these women's constantly changing feelings for each other in their own words. Eavesdrop on the affair that inspired Virginia to write her most fantastical novel, Orlando, and discover a relationship that - even a hundred years later - feels radical and relatable. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM ALISON BECHDEL, AUTHOR OF FUN HOME AND CREATOR OF THE BECHDEL TEST.
Quand Virginia Woolf, aussi fascinante et au venin aussi meurtrier que cette horreur, la vipere du Gabon (Bitis gabonica) la mord au coeur en lui disant qu'elle ecrit de l'exterieur , sous-entendu qu'il vaudrait mieux qu'elle fasse autre chose, Vita Sackville-West aurait pu repondre qu'elle, Virginia, ne connaissait rien au jardinage, occupation aussi meurtriere si on la concoit comme un des Beaux-Arts. Elle ne le fit pas, sans doute parce qu'elle etait trop blessee, trop genereuse et - meme si c'est demode - trop bien elevee pour faire ce genre de repartie. Il suffit de lire ce petit livre, musical comme un jardin anglais, pour retrouver a la fois l'artiste et la jardiniere, c'est-a-dire aussi bien des images de reve que des conseils pratiques a toutes celles (tous ceux) qui ont, ou qui desirent avoir la main verte. Rimbaud le savait: La main d'un maitre anime le clavecin des pres P. R.
