Leonard Woolf était un théoricien politique et auteur britannique, réputé non seulement pour ses œuvres publiées mais aussi comme le mari de Virginia Woolf. Ses écrits abordaient de profondes questions de politique et de société. En tant qu'éditeur, il co-fonda une importante maison d'édition littéraire. Ses contributions intellectuelles ont façonné le discours de son époque.
The book emphasizes the critical need for a framework that upholds international law and fosters global cooperation. Leonard Woolf advocates for mechanisms to regulate international power and ensure collective defense against aggression, reflecting on the importance of these principles in maintaining global peace and stability. His insights remain relevant in discussions about international relations and governance.
The Wise Virgins (1913) is a semi-autobiographical novel about a dilemma: whether Harry, the hero, should go into the family business and marry the suitable but dull girl next door or move in artistic circles and marry one of the entrancing 'Lawrence' girls. For, as Lyndall Gordon writes in her Persephone Preface: 'It is a truth widely acknowledged that Camilla Lawrence is a portrait of the author's wife - Virginia Woolf.' This is one reason why the novel is so intriguing. But it is also a Forsterian social comedy, funny, perceptive, highly intelligent, full of clever dialogue and at times bitterly satirical; while the dramatic and emotional denouement still retains a great deal of its power to shock. It was on his honeymoon in 1912 that Leonard Woolf began writing his second (and final) novel. He was 31, newly returned from seven years as a colonial administrator, and asking himself much the same questions as his hero. Helen Dunmore wrote in The Sunday Times: 'It's a passionate, cuttingly truthful story of a love affair between two people struggling against the prejudices of their time and place. Woolf's writing is almost unbearably honest.'
The classic novel of colonial Ceylon (Sri Lanka), first published in 1913 and written Virginia Woolf's husband. This novel, set in Ceylon, follows the lives of a handful of villagers hacking out a fragile existence in a jungle where indiscriminate growth, indifferent fate and malevolent neighbours constantly threaten to overwhelm them.
A series of letters commissioned by Virginia and Leonard Woolf in the early 1930s
Gathers British stories about India by Kipling, Orwell, and others, that illustrate changing English attitudes
Includes all five paperback books in slipcase.
An Autobiography of the Years, 1939-1969
An Autobiography of the Years 1919-1939
