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'It was high time for a biography of Leonard Woolf, the forgotten man at the heart of Bloomsbury .His contribution
to politics, publishing and journalism, his distinction as a writer and thinker, his influence not just on his circle but on the public life of Britain in the first half of the 20th Century,
all faded into the shadows as more and more attention was drawn towards Virginia, his brilliant, troubled wife. Now, he at last gets what he has long deserved: a full account of his life by an accomplished and sympathetic biographer . excellent, authoritative and balanced' Anne Chisholm, Sunday Telegraph
'Leonard Woolf has found the ideal biographer in Victoria Glendinning. Scintillating, subtle and wise, she lifts him out of the fog of Bloomsbury gossip and lets us see how various and remarkable he was in his own right' Claire Tomalin
'It needed a biography as compelling as this to bring out Woolf's fuU stature. Many wiU rate this as Glendinning's finest...
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Fülszöveg
H H
'It was high time for a biography of Leonard Woolf, the forgotten man at the heart of Bloomsbury .His contribution
to politics, publishing and journalism, his distinction as a writer and thinker, his influence not just on his circle but on the public life of Britain in the first half of the 20th Century,
all faded into the shadows as more and more attention was drawn towards Virginia, his brilliant, troubled wife. Now, he at last gets what he has long deserved: a full account of his life by an accomplished and sympathetic biographer . excellent, authoritative and balanced' Anne Chisholm, Sunday Telegraph
'Leonard Woolf has found the ideal biographer in Victoria Glendinning. Scintillating, subtle and wise, she lifts him out of the fog of Bloomsbury gossip and lets us see how various and remarkable he was in his own right' Claire Tomalin
'It needed a biography as compelling as this to bring out Woolf's fuU stature. Many wiU rate this as Glendinning's finest biography, for there is not a page that does not contain something of interest or surprise' Frances Spalding, Independent
'Leonard Woolf contains the qualities that Woolf himself admired and possessed: truthfulness, integrity and rationality. With her compelling account, Glendinning has done a great service to Woolf by refusing to simplify a complex life' Christopher Ondaatje, The Times
ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-2607-0 ISBN-10: 1-4165-2607-2
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