The Wise Virgins - Hardcover

Woolf, Leonard Sidney

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ISBN 10: 0701204621 ISBN 13: 9780701204624

Publisher: Hogarth Press, 1979

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This is a modern reprint of a book first published by Edward Arnold, London. October 1914. This is a hardcover book published in 1979 by Hogarth Press Ltd., 42 William IV Street, London WC2N 4 DF with a dust jacket price of 6.50 net pounds in the UK with an introduction by Ian Parsons. It was printed in Great Britain by Redwood Burn Limited, Trowbridge and Esher. Leonard Sidney Woolf (1880 -1969) was a British political theorist, author, publisher and civil servant, and husband of author Virginia Woolf. This is a semi-autobiographical novel about a dilemma: whether Harry, the hero, should go into the family business and marry the suitable but dull girl next door or move in artistic circles and marry one of the entrancing 'Lawrence' girls. Leonard Woolf's second novel, was published two years after the author's marriage to Virginia Stephen-and begun during their honeymoon. The autobiographical elements of the book are well documented. Its publication caused acute distress to Woolf's family. As a roman � clef the novel holds considerable interest for its picture of Leonard and Virginia's courtship, as well as its sketches of Vanessa Stephen and Clive Bell.

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Leonard Woolf (1880-1969) was a noted political historian, autobiographer, novelist, civil servant, and member of the Bloomsbury Group. In 1912 he married Virginia Stephen, and together the couple founded the Hogarth Press. Among his most important writings are After the Deluge (1931-51), a multivolume modern political and social history, and his five-volume autobiography (1960-69), which begins with Sowing. Victoria Glendinning is the award-winning author of Anthony Trollope and Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West, both of which won the Whitbread biography award, as well as Elizabeth Bowen, Edith Sitwell, Rebecca West, Jonathan Swift, and, most recently, Leonard Woolf: A Biography.

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"A remarkable book."- Virginia Woolf (Virginia Woolf )

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