Product Description: Book by Woolf, Leonard

Extracts drawn by Virginia Woolf's husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years offer insight into the art and mind of the twentieth-century author.

The evils of colonialism and the struggles of man against the universe and between man and nature are explored in Woolf's early-twentieth-century saga about Silindu and the inhabitants of the Ceylonese village of Beddagama

600 letters written by the literary and political man reveal a wide range of interests as well as revealing his personality and life as well as those he addresses

Product Description: Book by Woolf, Leonard

Product Description: Book by Woolf, Leonard

Product Description: The Notebooks of the Russian short story writer and playwright. His major plays are frequently revived in modern productions.

An after-dinner walk in the moonlight leads to a series of confessions of first loves. That is until Jessop takes his turn and decries the notion of love itself. He speaks of a tragic affair between an old schoolfriend of his and an innocent Sinhalese girl, and so introduces the motif of these three stories - the incompatibility of East and West.

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Product Description: Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (better known as Maxim Gorky) (1868-1936), was a popular and influential Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and arguably the greatest Russian literary figure of the 20th century...read more

Product Description: This volume consists of notes, themes, and sketches for works which Anton Chekhov intended to write, and are characteristic of the methods of his artistic production. Among his papers was found a series of sheets in a special cover with the inscription: "Themes, thoughts, notes, and fragments...read more