All Passion Spent

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"It is as formal, as stately as measured as a minuet. Miss SackvilleAA/est has borrowed in \\er prose writing some part of the function of poetry the abi I ity to suggest fer more than she says." —The New York Times

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In I860, as an unmarried girl of seventeen, Lady Slane nurtures a secret, burning ambition—to become an artist. She becomes, instead, the wife of a great statesman, Henry first Earl of Slane, and the mother of children. Seventy years later; now a widow, she abandons the family home, to the dismay of her pompous sons and daughters. Retiring to a tiny house in Hampstead she recollects the dreams of youth, and enjoys the mellow present in the company of those she has chosen. Lady Slane finds at last—in this world of her own—a passion, one that comes with the freedom to choose; this, her greatest gift, she passes on to the only one who can understand its value.
Vita SackviHe-West (1892-1962) was a distinguished... Tovább

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"It is as formal, as stately as measured as a minuet. Miss SackvilleAA/est has borrowed in \\er prose writing some part of the function of poetry the abi I ity to suggest fer more than she says." —The New York Times

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In I860, as an unmarried girl of seventeen, Lady Slane nurtures a secret, burning ambition—to become an artist. She becomes, instead, the wife of a great statesman, Henry first Earl of Slane, and the mother of children. Seventy years later; now a widow, she abandons the family home, to the dismay of her pompous sons and daughters. Retiring to a tiny house in Hampstead she recollects the dreams of youth, and enjoys the mellow present in the company of those she has chosen. Lady Slane finds at last—in this world of her own—a passion, one that comes with the freedom to choose; this, her greatest gift, she passes on to the only one who can understand its value.
Vita SackviHe-West (1892-1962) was a distinguished novelist, poet, and critic. All Passion Spent was first published in 1931, two years after the publication of her great friend Virginia Woolfs A Room of One's Own, which in many ways it echoes. For here in fictional form^ Vita Sackville-West makes a passionate plea for the right of every woman to become an artist, and "simply to be herself'
With an introduction by Victoria Glendinning
"This is a work of beauty" -ALA Booklist
"All Passion Spent is witty and charming and graceful and brilliant in the same manner and with the same flavor that The Edwardians was all of those things, but it is of another generatbn, not historically but spiritually It is an epic of old age." ' —Chicago Daily Tribune Vissza