Author: MARDER, HERBERT
Title: The Measure of Life: Virginia Woolf's Last Years
Description: Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0801437296. A first edition of Herbert Marder's examination of the last years of the life of England's Virginia Woolf (1882-1941). The modernist writer won fame for her novels and essays, but she suffered from depression throughout her life. This work describes in some detail the last ten years of her life, culminating in her suicide in 1941. With black & white photos throughout, depicting people and scenes from her life. With extensive letters, source notes, bibliography and index. --- In tan paper-covered boards backed in maroon cloth, with titling in gilt to spine. Jacket features Gisèle Freund photographic portrait of a morose-looking Virginia Woolf to front cover. --- A clean, bright, newish copy but with tiny bits of white paper clinging to back cover cloth. Jacket in excellent shape and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xiii, (2), 418 pages. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket .

Keywords: 0801437296 >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir >>Writers, Writing & Literary Criticism