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The World Broke in Two

The World Broke in Two

Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster and the Year That Changed Literature

by Bill Goldstein
Hardback
Publication Date: 15/08/2017

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A Lambda Literary Awards Finalist
Named one of the best books of 2017 by NPR's Book Concierge

A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernism

The World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four legendary writers, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence, make over the course of one pivotal year. As 1922 begins, all four are literally at a loss for words, confronting an uncertain creative future despite success in the past. The literary ground is shifting, asUlysses is published in February and Proust'sIn Search of Lost Time begins to be published in England in the autumn. Yet, dismal as their prospects seemed in January, by the end of the year Woolf has startedMrs. Dalloway, Forster has, for the first time in nearly a decade, returned to work on the novel that will becomeA Passage to India, Lawrence has writtenKangaroo, his unjustly neglected and most autobiographical novel, and Eliot has finished--and published to acclaim--"The Waste Land."

As Willa Cather put it, "The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts," and what these writers were struggling with that year was in fact the invention of modernism. Based on original research, Bill Goldstein'sThe World Broke in Two captures both the literary breakthroughs and the intense personal dramas of these beloved writers as they strive for greatness.

ISBN:
9780805094022
9780805094022
Category:
Literature: history & criticism
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
15-08-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Henry Holt & Company
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
244.86x162.56x32mm
Weight:
0.58kg
Bill Goldstein

Bill Goldstein is the founding editor of the The New York Times books website and the book critic for the weekend edition of WNBC's 'Today in New York'. He is also curator of public programs at Roosevelt House, the public policy institute of New York's Hunter College.

A graduate of the University of Chicago, he received a PhD in English from City University of New York Graduate Center in 2010, and is the recipient of writing fellowships at MacDowell, Yaddo, Ucross and elsewhere. He lives in New York.

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