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The world broke in two : Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, and the year that changed literature
Record details
- ISBN: 0805094024 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780805094022 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781627795296 (electronic book)
- ISBN: 0805094024 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780805094022 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780805094022 (hardback)
- ISBN: 0805094024 (hardback)
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Physical Description:
x, 351 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-334) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Virginia Woolf nears forty -- Eliot in January -- Edward Morgan Forster -- "Somewhere away by myself" -- "The greatest waste now going on in letters" -- "Without a novel & with no power to write one" -- "The usual fabulous zest" -- "English in the teeth of all the world" -- "Do not forget your ever friend" -- "Eliot dined last Sunday & read his poem" -- Women in Love in court -- The Waste Land in New York -- "I like being with my dead" -- A September weekend with the Woolves -- David and Frieda arrive in Taos -- "Mrs Dalloway has branched into a book" -- "What more is necessary to a great poem?" -- Epilogue. |
| Summary, etc.: | "A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster and D.H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernism. The World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four legendary writers, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster, and D.H. Lawrence, make over the course of one pivotal year. As 1922 begins, all four are literally at a loss for words, confronting an uncertain creative future despite success in the past. The literary ground is shifting, as Ulysses is published in February and Proust's In Search of Lost Time begins to be published in England in the autumn. Yet, dismal as their prospects seemed in January, by the end of the year Woolf has started Mrs. Dalloway, Forster has, for the first time in nearly a decade, returned to work on the novel that will become A Passage to India, Lawrence has written Kangaroo, his unjustly neglected and most autobiographical novel, and Eliot has finished--and published to acclaim--"The Waste Land." As Willa Cather put it, "The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts," and what these writers were struggling with that year was in fact the invention of modernism. Based on original research, The World Broke in Two captures both the literary breakthroughs and the intense personal dramas of these beloved writers as they strive for greatness."-- |
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