Vita Sackville-West, Collection
Vita Sackville-West, Collection

Author: Vita Sackville-West

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-05-18

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9781499589962

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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

All Passion Spent
All Passion Spent

Author: Vita Sackville-West

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2017-07-11

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 0525433988

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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—everyone assumes that his eighty-eight-year-old widow will slowly fade away in her grief, remaining as proper, decorative, and dutiful as she has been her entire married life. But the deceptively gentle Lady Slane has other ideas. First she defies the patronizing meddling of her children and escapes to a rented house in Hampstead. There, to her offspring’s utter amazement, she revels in her new freedom, recalls her youthful ambitions, and gathers some very unsuitable companions—who reveal to her just how much she had sacrificed under the pressure of others’ expectations.

A Note of Explanation
A Note of Explanation

Author: Vita Sackville-West

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2018-07-24

Total Pages: 51

ISBN-13: 1452170045

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“An extraordinary story . . . of a fashionable creature who flits in and out of fairy tales and historical epochs . . Exquisite.” —The Wall Street Journal 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 of a time-traveling sprite who inhabits the dollhouse. This illustrated e-book edition presents the story for the first time since 1924. Lovers of literature and history will rejoice in this irresistible one-of-a-kind e-book.

The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf

Author: Louise A. DeSalvo

Publisher: Cleis Press Inc

Published: 2004-01-10

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9781573441964

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After they met in 1922, Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf began a passionate relationship that lasted until Woolf's death in 1941. Their revealing correspondence leaves no aspect of their lives untouched. This volume, which features over 500 letters spanning 19 years, includes the writings of both of these literary icons.

Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst
Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst

Author: Vita Sackville-West

Publisher: Virago

Published: 2014-03-06

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1405517956

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From 1946 to 1957, Vita Sackville-West, the poet, bestselling author of All Passion Spent and maker of Sissinghurst, wrote a weekly column in the Observer describing her life at Sissinghurst, showing her to be one of the most visionary horticulturalists of the twentieth-century. With wonderful additions by Sarah Raven, Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst draws on this extraordinary archive, revealing Vita's most loved flowers, as well as offering practical advice for gardeners. Often funny and completely accessibly written with colour and originality, it also describes details of the trials and tribulations of crafting a place of beauty and elegance. Sissinghurst has gone on to become one of the most visited and inspirational gardens in the world and this marvellous book, illustrated with drawings and original photographs throughout, shows us how it was created and how gardeners everywhere can use some of the ideas from both Sarah Raven and Vita Sackville-West.

Vita's Other World
Vita's Other World

Author: Jane Brown

Publisher: Viking Adult

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13:

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Biografie van de Engelse schrijfster (1892-1962) en ontwerpster van de tuinen van Sissinghurst Castle in Engeland.

Delphi Collected Works of Vita Sackville-West (Illustrated)
Delphi Collected Works of Vita Sackville-West (Illustrated)

Author: Vita Sackville-West

Publisher: Delphi Classics

Published: 2022-08-16

Total Pages: 1500

ISBN-13: 1801700788

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A prominent figure of the Modernist movement, Vita Sackville-West was a successful novelist, poet and journalist, who published more than ten collections of poetry and numerous novels. She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature: in 1927 for her pastoral epic, ‘The Land’ and in 1933 for her seminal ‘Collected Poems’. She also wrote the extremely popular novels ‘The Edwardians’ and ‘All Passion Spent’, as well as scholarly non-fiction works. Sackville-West was the famous inspiration for the protagonist of ‘Orlando: A Biography’, by her famous friend and lover, Virginia Woolf. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature’s finest poets, with superior formatting. This comprehensive eBook presents Sackville-West’s collected works, with illustrations, many rare texts and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Sackville-West’s life and works * Concise introduction to Sackville-West’s life and poetry * Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the poems * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Almost the complete poetry — only ‘The Garden’ cannot appear due to remaining copyright restrictions in the US * Many rare texts digitised for the first time * Includes four novels * Features the major short story ‘Seducers in Ecuador’ * A selection of non-fiction — explore the author’s diverse works * Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to see our wide range of poet titles CONTENTS: The Life and Poetry of Vita Sackville-West Brief Introduction: Vita Sackville-West Timgad (1900) Constantinople (1915) Poems of West & East (1917) Orchard and Vineyard (1921) The Land (1926) King’s Daughter (1929) Invitation to Cast Out Care (1931) Sissinghurst (1931) Collected Poems (1933) Solitude (1938) The Poems List of Poems in Chronological Order List of Poems in Alphabetical Order The Novels Heritage (1919) The Dragon in Shallow Waters (1920) Challenge (1920) Grey Wethers (1923) The Shorter Fiction The Heir (1922) Seducers in Ecuador (1924) The Non-Fiction Knole and the Sackvilles (1922) Passenger to Teheran (1926) Nursery Rhymes (1947) Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of poetry titles or buy the entire Delphi Poets Series as a Super Set

Portrait of a Marriage
Portrait of a Marriage

Author: Nigel Nicolson

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1998-11

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780226583570

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Vita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgynous time-traveler in Orlando. The story of her love affair with Violet Keppel Trefusis in 1920 is one of intrigue and bewilderment. In Portrait of a Marriage, Nigel Nicolson combines his mother's vivid memoir of escapade with what he learned from copious family letters and explains the context of this romantic crisis. He also describes how Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson went on to live the rest of their lives in harmonious marriage.

Vita and Harold
Vita and Harold

Author: Nigel Nicolson

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2018-06-28

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1474610862

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The classic story of the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and a unique portrait of the Bloomsbury Group. 'Vita and Harold have become part of our literature' OBSERVER The marriage of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson was one of the most controversial relationships of the 20th century. This selection of letters, many of which have never been published, skilfully woven together by their son, Nigel Nicolson, gives dramatic new insight into their fascinating lives. Set within a framework of their son's highly personal memories, the story of this most extraordinary of marriages comes full circle - from the announcement of their engagement in 1912, through the storm days of Vita's well-known affairs with Violet Trefusis and Virginia Woolf, during the years of long separation as Harold's profession as a diplomat took him abroad, and culminating in the days leading up to Vita's death in 1962.