Leonard Woolf
Subtitle: a biography
By: Victoria Glendinning
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9780743246538
Subjects: Biographies; Publishers and publishing; Political scientists; Biography; English Authors
Description: An account of the life and career of the Bloomsbury political intellectual and husband of Virginia Woolf covers his comfortable Jewish childhood, role in inspiring the League of Nations, and relationships with such figures as E. M. Forster and T. S. Eliot.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [475]-477) and index.
Table of contents: title: In the beginning; title: Ten thousand hours; title: Trinity; title: Taking wings; title: Serendib; title: AGA hambantota; title: Aspasia; title: Mongoose and mandril; title: Great war; title: Editor; title: Prime time; title: The spring has died out of our lives; title: Life and death; title: Death and life; title: Trekkie; title: Disturbances; title: Letters and lives; title: Justice and mercy; title: Aftermath.