Poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West began writing as a child.Born at elegant Knole Castle, scene of Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando (1928), Sackville-West was educated in that 365-room dwelling.
In 1913 she married Harold Nicolson (see Vol. 3), journalist, diplomat, and biographer.Despite Nicolson's homosexuality and her own lesbian affair with Violet Trefusis, this marriage survived.
Poems of East and West, her first book, was published in 1917.She remained unknown except by a small group of literary connoisseurs until 1927, when she received the Hawthornden Prize for a second volume of poetry.At this time she lived in London and was part of the Bloomsbury group, which also included Lytton Strachey (see Vol. 3), E. M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes (see Vol. 3), and Woolf.
Sackville-West published many novels and volumes of poetry, biography, and family history, and several books on gardening, as well as book reviews and criticism.
All of her writings reflect the same unhurried approach, deep reflection, and brilliantly polished style.
Her influence on other writers, especially Woolf, was perhaps greater than her own individual achievement.
The Edwardians (1930) and All Passion Spent (1931) are her best-known novels.
Sackville-West's son, Nigel Nicholson, recounted the close, but unconventional relationship of his parents in the memoir Portrait of a Marriage, published in 1973.
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.
pure aesthetic and pinpoint craftsmanship is remarkable feature of the author vita sackville- west. title of the novel/no signpost in the sea/suggests the purposeless and idylic life in the sea. perhaps there has never been any purpose or "signpost" in nar...
评分pure aesthetic and pinpoint craftsmanship is remarkable feature of the author vita sackville- west. title of the novel/no signpost in the sea/suggests the purposeless and idylic life in the sea. perhaps there has never been any purpose or "signpost" in nar...
评分English Patient -----Sense of values has undergone a reversal. I haven't read such a good book like this for a long time. I first read its excerpt in our Advanced English; I was so attracted by it. Then I tried to look for the electronic resourc...
评分English Patient -----Sense of values has undergone a reversal. I haven't read such a good book like this for a long time. I first read its excerpt in our Advanced English; I was so attracted by it. Then I tried to look for the electronic resourc...
评分English Patient -----Sense of values has undergone a reversal. I haven't read such a good book like this for a long time. I first read its excerpt in our Advanced English; I was so attracted by it. Then I tried to look for the electronic resourc...
文笔太优美,配得上我的伍尔夫
评分算是高英第一册里我最喜欢的一篇了
评分需要看第二遍 想打3.5分 情节很俗套 文字太细屑 但文笔确实很美
评分我们都在寻找一个方向,哪怕是停留的方向,无论这是一个signpost,抑或一座lighthouse。
评分非常玛丽苏了。死于心花怒放。。。
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