Vita Sackville West: 15 books
by Vita Sackville-West
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
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...
by Vita Sackville-West
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
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...
Sissinghurst
Vita Sackville-West and the Creation of a Garden
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
From 1946 to 1957, Vita Sackville-West, the British poet, bestselling author of All Passion Spent and maker of Sissinghurst, wrote a weekly column in the Observer depicting her life at Sissinghurst, showing her to be one of the most visionary horticulturalists of the twentieth-century. With wonderful...
by Vita Sackville-West
Language: French
Release Date: May 23, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: May 23, 2015
Texte intégral révisé suivi d'une biographie de Vita Sackville-West. Brillant portrait de la haute société anglaise du début du XXe siècle, "Au temps du roi Edouard" est la peinture d'un monde disparu, celui des "Edwardians" qui sous le règne du roi Edouard VII n'acceptaient déjà plus le...
Sissinghurst
Portrait eines Gartens
Language: German
Release Date: March 8, 2017
1930 kaufte die Schriftstellerin Vita Sackville-West mit ihrem Ehemann Harold Nicolson die Ruine von Schloss Sissinghurst in Kent, um dort einen Garten zu erschaffen. Heute bewundern jährlich 160.000 Menschen ihr Lebenswerk: den Garten von Schloss Sissinghurst. Wie der Garten entstand, nach welchen...
by Golden Deer Classics, Ludwig van Bethoveen, Oscar Wilde
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter speaks a thousand more . . . Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter. Love letters express the spectrum of our emotions, offering a colorful glimpse into the soul of the writer,...
A Note of Explanation
An Undiscovered Story from Queen Mary's Dollhouse
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
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....
by William Shakespeare, Christina Rossetti, Walt Whitman
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter or a poem speaks a thousand more... Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter or that of a poem. LIST OF POEMS: 1. Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved...
by Vita Sackville-West
Language: French
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: October 17, 2012
« Margaret prétend qu'elle veut épouser un peintre, dit Sylvia, en regardant sa fille avec compassion. — Quoi ! s'écria la duchesse, un peintre ? Quel peintre ? A-t-on jamais entendu chose pareille ? La fille de lady Roehampton épouser un peintre ? Mais non, mais non... Vous épouserez Tony...
Bombay, Bagdad, Teheran
Meine Reise nach Persien
Language: German
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Im Frühjahr 1926 reiste Vita Sackville-West auf einem langen Umweg – über Ägypten, Indien und den Irak, wo sie in Bagdad einige Tage im Haus der von ihr verehrten Orientreisenden und Arabistin Gertrude Bell verbrachte – nach Persien, um ihren Mann zu besuchen, der als Sekretär der englischen...
by Beverley Nichols, Vita Sackville-West, Compton Mackenzie
Language: German
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Language: German
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Dieses Buch ist für jeden, der ein Fleckchen Erde bearbeitet, ein Glücksfall. Zueinander gefunden haben hier Beverley Nichols, laut New York Times einer 'der witzigsten Gartenautoren aller Zeiten', und Vita Sackville-West, die große Lady des englischen Gartenbaus, die mit ihrem Mann Sissinghurst,...
by Vita Sackville-West
Language: German
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Lady Slane ist 88 Jahre alt, als sie erkennt, dass sie sich in ihrem ganzen Leben bisher nur nach ihrem Mann gerichtet hat. Kaum ist er tot, trifft sie zum ersten Mal eigene Entscheidungen: Sie gibt ihr riesiges Haus mit Angestellten auf, lässt ihre Kinder nur noch nach Terminabsprache ein, knüpft...
by Vita Sackville-West
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...
by Vita Sackville-West
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
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...
12