Hogarth Press
1) Jacob's room
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English
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"Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, who is both representative and victim of the social values which led Edwardian society into war. Jacob's life is traced from the time he is a small boy playing on the beach, through his years in Cambridge, then in artistic London, and finally making a trip to Greece, but this is no orthodox biography. Jacob is presented in glimpses, in fragments, as...
5) First poems
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Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 52 Tavistock Square
Pub. Date
1925.
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English
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Hogarth
Pub. Date
1986.
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English
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In a series of dry fictional sketches, E.F. Benson introduces the reader to some of the more bizarre inhabitants of Mayfair's Edwardian high society - a world he knew intimately. Each is a distinct reprsentative of an anthropological "type."
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Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press, Tavistock Square
Pub. Date
1930.
Language
English
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Glittering satire of Edwardian high society features a privileged brother and sister torn between tradition and a chance at an independent life. Sebastian is young, handsome, moody, and the heir to Chevron, a vast and opulent ducal estate. He feels a deep love for the countryside and for his patrimony, but he loathes the frivolous social world his mother and her shallow friends represent. At one of his mother's decadent house parties, Sebastian meets...
8) Sissinghurst
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Printed by hand by Leonard & Virginia Woolf, and published at The Hogarth Press
Pub. Date
1931.
Language
English