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Duino Elegies (Paperback): Rainer Maria Rilke Duino Elegies (Paperback)
Rainer Maria Rilke; Translated by Vita Sackville-West; Introduction by Lesley Chamberlain; Translated by Edward Sackville-West
R382 R309 Discovery Miles 3 090 Save R73 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Vita Sackville-West - Selected Writings (Hardcover, Annotated Ed): Mary Ann Caws, Vita Sackville-West Vita Sackville-West - Selected Writings (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
Mary Ann Caws, Vita Sackville-West
R818 Discovery Miles 8 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Portrait Of A Marriage - Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson (Paperback, New Ed): Nigel Nicolson, Vita Sackville-West Portrait Of A Marriage - Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson (Paperback, New Ed)
Nigel Nicolson, Vita Sackville-West
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R292 Discovery Miles 2 920 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The classic story of the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and a unique portrait of the Bloomsbury Group. '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' TLS 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.

Love Letters: Vita and Virginia (Paperback): Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf Love Letters: Vita and Virginia (Paperback)
Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf; Introduction by Alison Bechdel
R384 R312 Discovery Miles 3 120 Save R72 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

Heritage (Paperback): Vita Sackville-West Heritage (Paperback)
Vita Sackville-West 1
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R293 R237 Discovery Miles 2 370 Save R56 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Ruth Pennistan is a farmer's daughter, born and brought up in Kent. But her dark hair and eyes belie a forgotten ancestry - a Spanish gypsy grandmother and a passionate inheritance. Malory, the rather strait-laced guest of the family, falls head over heels in love, even whilst Ruth becomes trapped against her will in a drama of love and tragedy with another man. Vita Sackville-West's first heroine echoes the passions and contradictions of the author's own life.

Family History (Paperback): Vita Sackville-West Family History (Paperback)
Vita Sackville-West 1
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R298 R243 Discovery Miles 2 430 Save R55 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Evelyn, aged thirty-nine, is an attractive widow living an irreproachable life. Then she meets Miles, fifteen years her junior, and falls passionately in love. But both lovers have strong personalities and passion does not equal happiness. Evelyn, deeply jealous and conventional is shocked at her lover's casual ways and his insistence on working all day. Miles's love for Evelyn is real but he cannot devote himself wholly to her whims. Vita Sackville-West collides attitudes to work, sex and society in the changing world of the early 1930s.

The Edwardians (Paperback): Vita Sackville-West The Edwardians (Paperback)
Vita Sackville-West; Introduction by Kate Williams 1
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R298 R242 Discovery Miles 2 420 Save R56 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Edwardian era love, society and politics explored in this perfect read for Downton Abbey fans. 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. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATE WILLIAMS

No Signposts In The Sea (Paperback, New Ed): Vita Sackville-West No Signposts In The Sea (Paperback, New Ed)
Vita Sackville-West
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R291 R234 Discovery Miles 2 340 Save R57 (20%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Edmund Carr is at sea in more ways than one. An eminent journalist and self-made man, he has recently discovered that he has only a short time to live. Leaving his job on a Fleet Street paper, he takes a passage on a cruise ship where he knows that Laura, a beautiful and intelligent widow whom he secretly admires, will be a fellow passenger. Exhilarated by the distant vista of exotic islands never to be visited and his conversations with Laura, Edmund finds himself rethinking all his values. A voyage on many levels, those long purposeless days at sea find Edumnd relinquishing the past as he discovers the joys and the pain of a love he is simultaneously determined to conceal.

Faces - Profiles of Dogs (Paperback): Vita Sackville-West Faces - Profiles of Dogs (Paperback)
Vita Sackville-West; Photographs by Laelia Goehr 1
R337 R277 Discovery Miles 2 770 Save R60 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
All Passion Spent (Paperback): Vita Sackville-West All Passion Spent (Paperback)
Vita Sackville-West; Introduction by Joanna Lumley 1
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R294 R238 Discovery Miles 2 380 Save R56 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A charming extraordinary early 20th century novel about family relationships. When the great statesman Lord Slane dies, everyone assumes his dutiful wife will slowly fade away, the paying guest of each of her six children. But Lady Slane surprises everyone by escaping to a rented house in Hampstead where she revels in her new freedom, revives youthful ambitions and gathers some very unsuitable companions. Irreverent, entertaining and insightful, this is a tale of the unexpected joys of growing older. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOANNA LUMLEY

The Heir (Paperback): Vita Sackville-West The Heir (Paperback)
Vita Sackville-West
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R244 R217 Discovery Miles 2 170 Save R27 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Challenge (Paperback): Vita Sackville-West Challenge (Paperback)
Vita Sackville-West; Introduction by Stella Duffy
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R327 R266 Discovery Miles 2 660 Save R61 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

CHALLENGE was Vita Sackville-West's second novel. It was ready to go to print in 1920, but the author 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.

Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst - The Creation of a Garden (Hardcover): Vita Sackville-West, Sarah Raven Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst - The Creation of a Garden (Hardcover)
Vita Sackville-West, Sarah Raven 1
R1,021 R792 Discovery Miles 7 920 Save R229 (22%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Pepita (Paperback, New Edition): Vita Sackville-West Pepita (Paperback, New Edition)
Vita Sackville-West
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R329 R268 Discovery Miles 2 680 Save R61 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JULIET NICOLSON Vita Sackville-West was an extraordinary woman from a long line of extraordinary women - this book tells their stories. Her grandmother Pepita, daughter of an old-clothes pedlar, made her fortune as a dancer and had a scandalous affair with an English diplomat. Their illegitimate daughter Victoria, Vita's mother, spent her childhood hidden in a convent but went on to be the glamorous mistress of Knole, one of the grandest old houses in England. Vita brings her legendary wit, passion and eccentricity to this colourful family portrait.

Duino Elegies (Hardcover): Rainer Maria Rilke Duino Elegies (Hardcover)
Rainer Maria Rilke; Translated by Vita Sackville-West; Introduction by Lesley Chamberlain; Translated by Edward Sackville-West
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R304 Discovery Miles 3 040 Ships in 2 - 4 working days

In 1931, Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press published a small run of a beautiful edition of Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies, in English translation by the writers Vita and Edward Sackville-West. This marked the English debut of Rilke's masterpiece, which would eventually be rendered in English over 20 times, influencing countless poets, musicians and artists across the English-speaking world. Published for the first time in 90 years, the Sackville-Wests' translation is both a fascinating historical document and a magnificent blank-verse rendering of Rilke's poetry cycle. Featuring a new introduction from critic Lesley Chamberlain, this reissue casts one of European literature's great masterpieces in fresh light.

Challenge (Paperback): Vita Sackville-West Challenge (Paperback)
Vita Sackville-West
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R590 R522 Discovery Miles 5 220 Save R68 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Edwardians (Paperback): Vita Sackville-West The Edwardians (Paperback)
Vita Sackville-West
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R515 R456 Discovery Miles 4 560 Save R59 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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