Lytton Strachey - Holroyd, Michael.
the new biography
KORTE INHOUD
When Michael Holroyd's life of Strachey appeared in 1967, it changed the course of modern biography, setting a new standard for the recounting of literary lives and launching the enduring Bloomsbury revival. In the 1960s, however, many of Strachey's friends and lovers were still alive; much could not be said, and access to letters and resources was restricted. Since then, almost all his circle has died, and homosexuality in England has been decriminalized. In telling Strachey's life anew, Holroyd has drawn on a wealth of previously unavailable material, bring fresh candor and accuracy to his account of Strachey's friendships with E. M. Forster, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, Ralph and Frances Patridge, and his companion Dora Carrington, among others. In many of Bloomsbury's three-cornered relationships, Holroyd could lay claim to only two sides of the triangle. Now he has all three with which to recount the story of this extraordinary man and his complex world. At the center of the...
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1995Uitgever: Farrar, Straus and Giroux779 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0374194394ISBN-13: 9780374194390Koop dit boek tweedehands
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(XXXV) 779 (1) p. Hardcover with dustjacket (In good condition.) New York, Farrar Straus and Giroux 1994 [Auteur: HOLROYD, MICHAEL] [Jaar: 1994] [Titel: Lytton Strachey. The New Biography]
1995, hardcover met stofomslag, goed exemplaar / good copy [Auteur: Holroyd, Michael] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Farrar, Straus and Giroux] [Jaar: 1995] [Titel: Lytton Strachey / The New Biography]