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Paper darts. The Illustrated Letters

Door Virginia Woolf e.a.

Categorie
Secundair
Boeknummer
#265558
Titel
Paper darts. The Illustrated Letters
Auteur
Woolf, Virginia & Frances Spalding (selected and introduced by)
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
London, Collins & Brown
Jaar van uitgave
1991
ISBN10
185585046X
ISBN13
9781855850460
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting
Virginia Woolf often wrote as many as six letters a day. This collection is illustrated with contemporary photographs and paintings - many of them by members of the Bloomsbury Group, such as Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry and Duncan Grant - and aims to evoke the literary and artistic life of the day. The letters - at times witty and irreverent, at times melancholy and introspective - are possibly even more revealing for their insights into the complex personality of the novelist herself. "A true letter", she insisted, "should be like a film of wax pressed close to the graving of the mind". The book contains biographical notes on the main recipients of the letters, together with background information on Virginia Woolf's life and work. Frances Spalding's previous... (Lees verder) books include "British Art Since 1900" and biographies of the painters Roger Fry and Vanessa Bell.
Pagina's
160
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 8,00

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