These 600 letters are arranged thematically to focus on the principal aspects of Woolf's life, giving new insights into this brilliant, uncompromising seeker of truth. 16 pages of photos.

Letters of Leonard Woolf

Biographies & Memoirs

Woolf, Leonard

Professionals & Academics

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

BEGINNING AGAIN, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEARS 1911 TO 1918, LEONARD WOOLF, 1964 EDITION.

Beginning Again - An Autobiography of The Years 1911 to 1918

Regional U.S.

Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, Inc.

The author's account of the events of World War I and also a description of the origin of the Bloomsbury Group, the founding of the Hogarth Press, and the author's marriage to Virginia Stephen. "To write this masterly account is a severe test of courage and honesty...it raises the book to greatness" (The Nation). Index; photographs.

Beginning Again: An Autobiography Of The Years 1911 To 1918

Arts & Literature

Mariner Books

Leonard Woolf's recollections of his life with Virginia Woolf during the years when she wrote her major novels; also an account of the growth of the Hogarth Press, as well as portraits of Sigmund Freud, T. S. Eliot, and others. "There is a lucid probity in Leonard Woolf's writing" (Leon Edel, Saturday Review). Index; photographs.

Downhill All The Way: An Autobiography Of The Years 1919 To 1939

Woolf's account of his seven years as a civil servant in Ceylon. "He has a seemingly effortless way with words which is beautiful and spellbinding" (J. M. Edelstein, New Republic). Index; photographs.

Growing: An Autobiography Of The Years 1904 To 1911

Historical

The author's account of World War II, his wife's death, and his political and literary activities. "A splendid ending to one of the most remarkable literary achievements of our time" (New York Times Book Review). Index; photographs.

The Journey Not The Arrival Matters: An Autobiography of the Years 1939 to 1969

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

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Harcourt

The author's childhood in Victorian London and his youth at Cambridge, when he met his future wife, Virginia, and others who were to become members of the Bloomsbury Group. "Just what an autobiography should be" (New Yorker). Index; photographs.

Sowing: An Autobiography Of The Years 1880 To 1904 (Harvest Book; Hb 319)

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

The Village in the Jungle (Twentieth Century Classics)

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Oxford University Press

The Wise Virgins (1914), 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. Leonard’s sister, Bella, urged him to bury the novel, while his mother was shocked and mortified by unflattering portraits of herself and her neighbors. Two weeks after reading the novel, Virginia Woolf suffered the worst of her many breakdowns.
As aroman à 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. (Virginia would later retell the story, from a much different perspective, in Night and Day.) But the novel offers the contemporary reader other rewards. It remains a witty, engaging satire about English society just before World War I and its conventions and prejudices. In Harry Davis, Woolf created a memorable Jewish antihero who rails against society’s conventions but tragically finds himself unable to escape them. Award-winning biographer Victoria Glendinning contributes a foreword to this new paperback edition.

The Wise Virgins

Yale University Press

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Letters of Leonard Woolf

Beginning Again - An Autobiography of The Years 1911 to 1918

Beginning Again: An Autobiography Of The Years 1911 To 1918

Downhill All The Way: An Autobiography Of The Years 1919 To 1939

Growing: An Autobiography Of The Years 1904 To 1911

The Journey Not The Arrival Matters: An Autobiography of the Years 1939 to 1969

Letters of Leonard Woolf

Sowing: An Autobiography Of The Years 1880 To 1904 (Harvest Book; Hb 319)

The Village in the Jungle (Twentieth Century Classics)

The Wise Virgins