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The Sitwells: A Family's Biography

The Sitwells: A Family's Biography Soft cover - 1980

by Pearson, John

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Harvest Book, 1980. Soft cover. Very Good. VERY NICE CLEAN COPY! No marks or writings, pages bright and clean, binding sound. Light wear to spine ends and corners, light crease to back bottom corner. Carefully packaged. P
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Details

  • Title The Sitwells: A Family's Biography
  • Author Pearson, John
  • Binding Soft cover
  • Edition 1st Harvest/ HBJ
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 528
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harvest Book, NY
  • Date 1980
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 008489
  • ISBN 9780156826761 / 0156826763
  • Weight 1.56 lbs (0.71 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.62 x 6.26 x 1.36 in (21.89 x 15.90 x 3.45 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects Authors, English - 20th century - Family, Sitwell, Edith
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 80014371
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

Summary

John Pearson has sympathetically portrayed the often turbulent private lives of this remarkable English family of poets, memoirists, critics, and patrons, and has evaluated their literary output, in a book that is as entertaining as it is knowledgeable. Index; illustrations.

First line

ONE DAY in 1949, when he was still a young and tender playwright, an admiring Tennessee Williams met Edith Sitwell over tea.