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Vita Sackville-West
Books in Order: 20 titles
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The Edwardians. Illustrated
A brilliant and satirical portrait of England's high society at the dawn of the modern age, The Edwardians by Vita Sackville-West captures the glitter and emptiness of aristocratic life between the fading elegance of the nineteenth century and the re...
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Grey Wethers
A gentleman's daughter rejects her station in this tale of nineteenth-century love across class boundaries by the acclaimed poet and author of The Edwardians. In the English village of King's Avon, across the downs from Marlborough, young Clare Wa...
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A Note of Explanation
A NOTE OF EXPLANATION is a previously unknown work by iconic writer Vita Sackville-West. Written in 1922, it was recently rediscovered as a miniature book in Queen Mary's dollhouse in Windsor Castle. Witty and stylish, the story recounts the antics o...
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The Dragon in Shallow Waters
The Dragon in Shallow Waters (1921) is a novel by Vita Sackville-West. While she is most widely recognized as the lover of English novelist Virginia Woolf, Sackville-West was a popular and gifted poet, playwright, and novelist in her own right. A pro...
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Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings
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, histor...
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Twelve Days
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 aris...
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Grand Canyon
The Second World War has been won. Germany has conquered Britain and all of Europe, and now only America stands, protected for now by the Pacific Charter - a precarious promise of peace from the Reich.
Lester Dale and Helen Temple, two strange... -
The Eagle and the Dove
Two women, both destined to be revered as saints; but how very different in character, opinions and life-stylethey were is lucidly conveyed in this exceptional double biography, long accepted as a classic of its kind. The eagle is Saint Teresa of Avi...
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Passenger to Teheran
In 1926 Vita Sackville-West travelled 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 v...
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Seducers in Ecuador and The Heir
Two short novels tell the tales of Arthur Lomax, whose life is alarmingly transformed by a pair of blue spectacles, and Peregrine Chase, whose life is beautifully transformed by a Tudor house he inherits...
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All Passion Spent
Irreverently funny and surprisingly moving, All Passion Spent is the story of a woman who discovers who she is just before it is too late.After the death of elder statesman Lord Slane -- a former prime minister of Great Britain and viceroy of India -...
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The Edwardians
An instant bestseller when it was published in 1930, this glittering satire of Edwardian high society features a privileged brother and sister torn between tradition and a chance at an independent life. Sebastian is young, handsome, moody, and the he...
