An Autobiography: Volume 1, 1880-1911
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Few figures in twentieth-century British intellectual life occupy as singular a position as Leonard Woolf — publisher, political theorist, Fabian socialist, and the steadfast partner of Virginia Woolf. Volume 1 of his autobiography chronicles his early years from 1880 to 1911, tracing his childhood in a large Victorian Jewish family, his formative years at Cambridge among the luminaries who would become the Bloomsbury Group, and his years as a colonial civil servant in Ceylon — an experience that would ignite his lifelong opposition to imperialism and shape his political conscience. With an introduction by Quentin Bell, this Oxford University Press edition presents a memoir of remarkable candour, intellectual rigour, and quiet literary grace. Woolf's prose is measured and precise, yet animated by a deep moral seriousness that makes his self-accounting far more than personal history — it is a document of an age. Readers who begin with this first volume will find themselves irresistibly drawn toward the life that follows.
Author: Leonard Woolf
Format: Paperback
Published: 1980, Oxford University Press
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few figures in twentieth-century British intellectual life occupy as singular a position as Leonard Woolf — publisher, political theorist, Fabian socialist, and the steadfast partner of Virginia Woolf. Volume 1 of his autobiography chronicles his early years from 1880 to 1911, tracing his childhood in a large Victorian Jewish family, his formative years at Cambridge among the luminaries who would become the Bloomsbury Group, and his years as a colonial civil servant in Ceylon — an experience that would ignite his lifelong opposition to imperialism and shape his political conscience. With an introduction by Quentin Bell, this Oxford University Press edition presents a memoir of remarkable candour, intellectual rigour, and quiet literary grace. Woolf's prose is measured and precise, yet animated by a deep moral seriousness that makes his self-accounting far more than personal history — it is a document of an age. Readers who begin with this first volume will find themselves irresistibly drawn toward the life that follows.