Bloomsbury: A House Of Lions
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Tears along folds of jacket.
A richly detailed work of literary and cultural biography, Bloomsbury: A House of Lions chronicles the lives and interconnected relationships of the extraordinary group of writers, artists, and intellectuals who gathered in London's Bloomsbury district in the early twentieth century. Leon Edel, celebrated for his mastery of biographical narrative, presents vivid portraits of figures such as Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, John Maynard Keynes, and E. M. Forster, illuminating the personal passions and creative ambitions that bound them together. With the precision of a scholar and the elegance of a storyteller, Edel argues that the Bloomsbury Group represented nothing less than a revolution in modern thought, reshaping literature, economics, art criticism, and social mores in ways that still resonate today. The tone is both intimate and authoritative, drawing on letters, diaries, and memoirs to reconstruct a world of brilliant, often turbulent minds who dared to challenge Victorian convention at every turn.
Author: Leon Edel
Format: Hardback
Published: 1979, The Hogarth Press
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Tears along folds of jacket.
A richly detailed work of literary and cultural biography, Bloomsbury: A House of Lions chronicles the lives and interconnected relationships of the extraordinary group of writers, artists, and intellectuals who gathered in London's Bloomsbury district in the early twentieth century. Leon Edel, celebrated for his mastery of biographical narrative, presents vivid portraits of figures such as Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, John Maynard Keynes, and E. M. Forster, illuminating the personal passions and creative ambitions that bound them together. With the precision of a scholar and the elegance of a storyteller, Edel argues that the Bloomsbury Group represented nothing less than a revolution in modern thought, reshaping literature, economics, art criticism, and social mores in ways that still resonate today. The tone is both intimate and authoritative, drawing on letters, diaries, and memoirs to reconstruct a world of brilliant, often turbulent minds who dared to challenge Victorian convention at every turn.