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An edition of Long life (1997)

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The younger son of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West, Nigel Nicolson grew up in a world that combined Bloomsbury with Knole, his grandfather's great house in Kent, Eton with Sissinghurst, Oxford with the uninhabited islands in the Outer Hebrides that he bought while still an undergraduate.

Nicolson was Virginia Woolf's eleven-year-old companion while she was writing Orlando, her fantasy about his mother. He walked alone through the wildest parts of Greece; admired Mussolini, whom he saw in Rome, and Goebbels in Berlin; then changed his mind when war came, serving in the Grenadier Guards in the African and Italian campaigns.

After the war, he founded, together with George Weidenfeld, the publishing firm of Weidenfeld & Nicolson, which, despite a shaky start, survived and eventually flourished in the face of such controversies as the publication of Nabokov's Lolita. At the same time, Nicolson became a member of Parliament, serving as Tory M.P. for Bournemouth for seven years.

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English
Pages
294

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Cover of: Long life
Long life
1998, G.P. Putnam's Sons, Putnam Adult
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Long life
1997, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Edition Notes

Includes index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
941.085/092, B
Library of Congress
CT788.N486 A3 1998, CT788.N486A3 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
294 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
294

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL683430M
Internet Archive
longlife00nico
ISBN 10
0399143637
LCCN
97030180
OCLC/WorldCat
37397958
Library Thing
1111334
Goodreads
3574399

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