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  • The Land
    Vita Sackville-West
    The Land is a book-length narrative poem by Vita Sackville-West. Published in 1926 by William Heinemann, it is a Georgic celebration of the rural landscape, traditions and history of the Kentish Weald where Sackville-West lived.The poem adopts the traditional Georgic structure of the four seasons and is divided into four parts, running from Winter to Autumn, and documenting the...
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  • Challenge
    Vita Sackville-West
    A sharp, sly whisper from a vanished era, Challenge peers into the heart of edwardian britain with wit, keen eye, and unflinching honesty.This restored edition reunites Vita Sackville-West’s early twentieth century novel with its public-domain roots, offering a vivid portrait of romance and social norms told through aristocratic satire. Its elegant, precise prose tracks how gen...
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    21,44 €

  • Grand Canyon
    Vita Sackville-West
    The Second World War has been won - by the Germans. Only America still stands protected by a precarious promise of peace from the Reich. Lester and Helen strangers staying at the Grand Canyon Hotel in Arizona are united by their memories of a lost England. When the fragile peace shatters only Lester and Helen can take charge and lead their fellow guests into an uncertain futu...
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    19,30 €

  • The Eagle and the Dove
    Vita Sackville-West
    The two saints whose lives Vita Sackville-West contrasts in this double biography were recorded by very different epithets: ’the great’ and ’the little’. Both women were Carmelites both canonised and both shared the same name. But whilst Teresa of Avila was aristocratic intellectual vigorous and humorous a Spanish woman of the sixteenth century Th r se of Lisieux was a gui...
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    19,30 €

  • Seducers in Ecuador & The Heir
    Vita Sackville-West
    Seducers in Ecuador is the story of Arthur Lomax every bit the English gentleman in his white ducks and solar topee enjoying the pleasures of an Egyptian cruise. But with the addition of a pair of blue spectacles to the outfit Lomax’s entire world changes - to alarming deadly effect.Peregrine Chase in The Heir is the manager of a Wolverhampton insurance company. But when he...
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    19,62 €

  • Saint Joan of Arc
    Vita Sackville-West
    The strange story of Joan of Arc the obscure peasant girl who became the national saint of France is retold in this celebrated classic biography. Saint Joan lives for the reader on every page as a shepherd girl in a remote part of fifteenth-century rural France visited by visions of saints and angels; as the avenging virgin who regenerated the soul of a torn and wretched F...
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    23,24 €