Bibliograph

Sydney and Violet, their life with T.S. Eliot, Proust, Joyce and the excruciatingly irascible Wyndham Lewis, Stephen Klaidman

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Sydney and Violet, their life with T.S. Eliot, Proust, Joyce and the excruciatingly irascible Wyndham Lewis, Stephen Klaidman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-252) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sydney and Violet

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Stephen Klaidman

Sub title

their life with T.S. Eliot, Proust, Joyce and the excruciatingly irascible Wyndham Lewis

Summary

A portrait of the twentieth-century literary couple describes their friendships with personalities ranging from Picasso to Aldous Huxley and provides a social, intellectual, and cultural history of the modernist movement

Table Of Contents

Sydney's travels -- Families -- The modernist world -- The war years -- A volatile relationship -- Annus mirabilis -- A friendship in letters I -- A friendship in letters II -- A falling out -- New friends -- The Apes of God and modernist satire -- Violet alone

Target audience

adult

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Their life with T.S. Eliot, Proust, Joyce and the excruciatingly irascible Wyndham Lewis

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