{"product_id":"2026200010409-secondhand-an-autobiography-volume-1-1880-1911","title":"An Autobiography: Volume 1, 1880-1911","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew 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.\n\nWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130693099739,"sku":"2026200010409-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/1613baef-3e7e-4df4-990a-1649316f04fa.png?v=1786588589","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200010409-secondhand-an-autobiography-volume-1-1880-1911","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}