Free Press, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. As New/as new. As new in dust jacket. First edition/printing. Hardcover. 498 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with photographs. The first full-length biography of one of the most remarkable but also overlooked literary figures of the 20th century, Leonard Woolf. The "dark star" of the Bloomsbury Group, he was the husband of Virginia Woolf. From a prosperous Jewish London family, Leonard attended Trinity College where he became an intimate of the group of vivid personalities who would form the core of the Bloomsbury Group including Toby Steven who would introduce him to his sister Virginia. The biographer looks in detail at the unconventional marriage between Leonard and Virginia during which Leonard would support her through her breakdowns and in her writing.

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Victoria Glendinning is the Whitbread Award-winning biographer of Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Bowen, Edith Sitwell, Vita Sackville-West, Rebecca West, and Jonathan Swift. Her novels, The Grown-Ups , Electricity, and Flight , were critical and commercial successes. She lives in London, England.

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Bookseller: The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: E24953
Title: Leonard Woolf: A Biography
Author: Victoria Glendinning
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: New
Jacket Condition: as new
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition
ISBN 10: 0743246535
ISBN 13: 9780743246538
Publisher: Free Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2006
LCCN: 2006049784
Keywords: literature, virginia woolf, authors, literary, bloomsbury, biography

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