New Releases by Nigel NICOLSON

Nigel Nicolson est le fils de Vita Sackville-West et de Harold Nicolson. Elle était la célèbre romancière et lui l’homme politique de renom. Ils eurent un mariage heureux et l''affection qu’ils se portaient n''a cessé de croître en profondeur en dépit des complications résultant de leur singularité : « Tous deux aimèrent des gens de leur propre sexe. » Leur union connut des tumultes causés par leurs infidélités respectives – la passion amoureuse de Vita pour Violet Trefusis notamment –, mais leur mariage demeura l''axe inébranlable de leur vie. Écrivain, éditeur de la correspondance de Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicolson a publié en 1973 ce qui se donne à la fois comme le journal intime de sa mère, un récit d’une incroyable modernité – « un jour viendra où la société acceptera que les femmes puissent aimer les femmes et les hommes, les hommes » (Vita Sackville-West en 1920) – et un panégyrique du mariage. Traduit de l’anglais par Viviane Forrester.

The classic story of the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and a unique portrait of the Bloomsbury Group. ''Vita and Harold have become part of our literature'' OBSERVER The marriage of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson was one of the most controversial relationships of the 20th century. This selection of letters, many of which have never been published, skilfully woven together by their son, Nigel Nicolson, gives dramatic new insight into their fascinating lives. Set within a framework of their son''s highly personal memories, the story of this most extraordinary of marriages comes full circle - from the announcement of their engagement in 1912, through the storm days of Vita''s well-known affairs with Violet Trefusis and Virginia Woolf, during the years of long separation as Harold''s profession as a diplomat took him abroad, and culminating in the days leading up to Vita''s death in 1962.

Un raffinatissimo scrittore (figlio di Vita Sackville-West e di Harold Nicolson e autore del celeberrimo Scene di un matrimonio - di prossima pubblicazione in BUR La Scala) ricostruisce la tragedia della Grande Armée in Russia nel 1812, una sconfitta che segnò l''inizio inarrestabile della caduta di Napoleone.

Es la historia del matrimonio formado por Vita Sackville-West y Harold Nicolson que fue uno de los más excéntricos y menos convencionales de la sociedad inglesa de la primera mitad del siglo XX y que duró 50 años, aunque cada uno hacia una vida independiente, pero jamás pudieron estar el uno sin el otro. Uno hijo de la pareja, Nigel Nicolson, fue nombrado albacea a la muerte de su madre en 1962 y revisó todos sus papeles que, como dice en el prólogo a la edición original : "(mi madre) había archivado todo los (papeles) importantes, incluso la correspondencia que mantuvo durante los cincuenta años de compromiso y matrimonio con Harold Nicholson, su propio diario y el de su madre Lady Sack-ville". También encontró un autobiografía escrita a los 28 años en la que comenta su tormentosa y nunca inacabada relación con la escritora Violet Trefusis, con la que tuvo una relación tormentosa entre 1918 y 1920. El libro está estructurado de forma que a un texto de Vita le sigue otro de Nigel explicativo de cómo era y veía él a su madre y una cronología.

Nigel Nicolson moved close to royal circles yet was not part of the Court. He has kept a daily diary throughout the years and has observed how a nation that still boasted an empire gradually down-sized to a sovereign state that is now part of the European community. In 1953 the Queen ruled over a country still recovering from the depradations of world war II. The royal family kept its private life private--Nicolson asks how and why that, and much else, has changed.

At the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 Nigel Nicolson was in his mid-thirties and already a successful publisher, a left-leaning Conservative MP (elected to Parliament the day King George VI died) and an author. He moved close to royal circles yet was not part of the Court. He has kept a daily diary throughout these years and has observed how a nation that still boasted an empire gradually down-sized to a sovereign state that is now part of the European community. In 1953 the Queen ruled over a country still recovering from the depradations of world war II. The royal family kept its private life private. How it has all changed since then! Why has it changed? asks Nicolson. Is it a change for the good? Should we continue to have a royal family? Then there are the social changes, the technological innovations. Nicolson comments on them, writing with a wry sense of humour and a keen sense of history.

As the author of "Evelina" and "Cecilia", both of which created new dimensions for the novel, Fanny Burney is as well remembered for her memoirs of Johnson, her mastectomy and her account of the Battle of Waterloo. This portrait of Burney paints a picture of this forward-looking woman.

An intimate portrait of one of our greatest and most fascinating writers is presented by Nicolson, the distinguished son of British writers Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West--one of Woolf''s closest friends and sometime lover.

Rightfully called "the garden of England," the county of Kent can boast of an impressive seacoast bordered by cliffs, small towns of infinite charm, and naturally rich and fertile soil in which greenery flourishes. Combining the best a guidebook has to offer with a history of how the region developed, a born-and-bred Kentishman relates a fascinating tale of a place filled with character and spirit. Breathtaking photographs show majestic landscapes, churches, manors, and farms, and nature at its wildest. 160 pages, 65 color illus., 51 b/w illus., 7 9/16 x 10 3/8.

Vita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgynous time-traveler in Orlando. The story of her love affair with Violet Keppel Trefusis in 1920 is one of intrigue and bewilderment. In Portrait of a Marriage, Nigel Nicolson combines his mother''s vivid memoir of escapade with what he learned from copious family letters and explains the context of this romantic crisis. He also describes how Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson went on to live the rest of their lives in harmonious marriage.

The younger son of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West, Nigel Nicolson grew up in a world that combined Eton with Sissinghurst, Oxford with uninhabited islands in the Outer Hebrides. In this compelling autobiography, traveler, soldier, politician, publisher and author Nigel Nicolson paints a vivid portrait of a truly fascinating life. of photos.

Features the houses Jane Austen lived in and visited, and the houses she invented for her novels, plus her love of the English landscape.

Two Roads to Dodge City offers a vividly fresh look at today''s Americans and their ways, by two gifted observers--father and son. This portrait of the country and its people from coast to coast is revealing, understanding, entertaining, and full of surprises. Nigel, the father, starts in Miami, driving in easy stages with stops in small towns and large cities up the coast to Canada, then down the middle of the country to New Orleans, and up to his rendezvous with Adam. Thanks to his frequent visits to the States and his fame as a writer, he has easy access to the grand houses as well as the modest, to leaders of society, government, business, academia, as well as folks in towns and roadside stops. Son Adam, not yet thirty, but already author of several books--one of which, Frontiers, won the 1986 Somerset Maugham Award--wanders a lower road from Los Angeles through San Francisco, Oregon, Idaho, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Santa Fe, and Wyoming. A tall, unmistakably upper-class Englishman, he has an uncanny gift for swiftly striking up acquaintance with any kind and age of man or woman. His California, for example, has an astonishing freshness, and his experiences with the young and wild, the comfy and the raunchy, the settled and the nomadic, are a joy to share. The diversity of the Nicholsons'' adventures and views, together with the affection, argument, and mutual stimulus which link them across the ever-narrowing 3,000-mile gap, combine to make this an unusual and exciting book.

Nigelson confirms that Fink''s copy of "An impression on wax" was given by Lady Sackville to Vita Sackville-West.

Surveys the land, vegetation, and wildlife of the Himalaya Mountains.

Leven en huwelijk van de Engelse schrijfster Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) en haar echtgenoot Harold Nicolson (1886-1968), diplomaat en schrijver, weergegeven door hun zoon. Gebaseerd op herinneringen, dagboeken en een autobiografie van zijn moeder.