2004
| Vita Sackville-West is known as much for her creation of the gardens atissinghurst Castle as for her numerous novels, poems and gardening articles.ritten in 1926, "The Land" is a nostalgic celebration of the Kentishountryside through the seasons. |
| Sebastian and Viola are children of the English aristocracy. Handsome and moody, 19-year-old Sebastian is heir to Chevron, a vast country estate. Tying him to his inheritance is a deep sense of tradition and love of the English countryside, but he loathes the cold, extravagant society of which he is a part. At 16, his sister Viola is more independent: an unfashionable beauty who scorns every part of her inheritance-most particularly that of womanhood. It is July 1905, and Chevron is once again t....[more] |
| Echoing the themes in A Room of One's Own by her great friend Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West remaps the destiny of the gentle, gracious eighty-eight-year-old Lady Slane in this classic modern novel. Having surrendered seven decades of her life to the exemplary, if often hollow fulfillment of her marriage, to the expectations of her statesman husband and the demands of her children, Lady Slane finally, in her widowhood, defies her family. She dismisses the wishes and plans of her six pompous....[more] |
2000
| From 1946, the writer Vita Sackville-West wrote a gardening column for "Thebserver". These articles were later compiled to form a series of books,howing Vita's extensive gardening knowledge, her intense passion for theubject and her lively literary flair. |
1999
| From 1946, the writer Vita Sackville-West wrote a gardening column for "Thebserver". These articles were later compiled to form a series of books,howing Vita's extensive gardening knowledge, her intense passion for theubject and her lively literary flair. |
1990
| Vita Sackville-West wrote Saint Joan of Arc in 1936 at the age of forty-four, and had, at that point, already been writing for thirty years. At fourteen, Sackville-West published her first book, and at fourteen Joan of Arc first heard the voices. Joan was seventeen when she took command of the armies of France--a peasant girl in the early fifteenth century in charge of a nation's forces. At nineteen she was captured by the British and tried as a witch by a church court. Before her twentieth birt....[more] |
1987
| In 1926 renowned novelist Vita Sackville-West traveled on a dangerous and delightful journey floating down the Nile, sailing across the Persian Gulf, and eventually reaching her husband, a diplomat, in Teheran.This classic work reveals her adventurous spirit and offers an enlightening look at the history of the Middle East. |
2002
| 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....[more] |
1985
| 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 and his conversations with Laura, Edmund finds himself rethinking all his values. A voyage on many levels....[more] |
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