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Vita Sackville-West - The Edwardians.
A portrait of fashionable society at the height of the era, The Edwardians revealed, through the lives of its characters, all that was glamorous about... Lire la suite
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A portrait of fashionable society at the height of the era, The Edwardians revealed, through the lives of its characters, all that was glamorous about the period - and all that was to lead to its downfall. Sebastian and Viola are brother and sister. Handsome and moody, at nineteen Sebastian is a duke and heir to the vast country estate, Chevron. A deep sense of tradition and love of the English countryside bind him to his inheritance, though he loathes the glittering, cold, extravagant society of which he is a part.
Sixteen-year-old Viola is more independent, an unfashionable beauty who scorns every part of her inheritance - most particularly that of womanhood. In July 1905, Chevron is once again the site of a lavish house party. Among the guests are Lady Roehampton, a great beauty and seductress who will initiate Sebastian in the art of love. But it is the explorer, Anquetil, rough yet humane, who opens for both brother and sister the gateway to another world.

Caractéristiques

  • Date de parution
    01/01/2005
  • Editeur
  • Collection
  • ISBN
    0-86068-359-1
  • EAN
    9780860683599
  • Format
    Poche
  • Présentation
    Broché
  • Nb. de pages
    349 pages
  • Poids
    0.29 Kg
  • Dimensions
    13,0 cm × 20,0 cm × 2,3 cm

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Biographie de Vita Sackville-West

Victoria Sackville-West (1892-1962) was born and educated at Knole, the family home that was to be an abiding passion throughout her life. During a brief spell at school in London she met Violet Trefusis with whom she would later have a passionate affair. A distinguished critic, biographer, award-winning poet and gardener, her novels include the acclaimed All Passion Spent (1931 dramatised by the BBC in 1986) and The Edwardians (1930).
Her close friendship with Virginia Woolf is celebrated in Woolf's novel, Orlando (1928). In 1930, Vita and her husband Harold Nicolson bought Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, where they created their famous garden. Vita Sackville-West died at home, after an operation for cancer, aged seventy.

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