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.

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.

Opening soon after Virginia Woolf met Vita Sackville-West and culminating with the publication of Orlando, this volume of letters covers Bloomsbury''s most triumphant period. This was the time when Woolf wrote five of her best-known books, including Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, and whilst she became one of the most famous writers of her generation, many of her friends - Lytton Strachey, T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster - had become equally eminent. The slow evolution of Virginia''s affair with Vita is traced through some of her wittiest letters, while her correspondence with her sister Vanessa and other friends reveals a strong sympathy with people beneath her ironic view of life.

In 1870, a year before the great fire which destroyed the city, a girl called Mary Leiter was born in the suburbs of Chicago, the daughter of a self-made man. Although she died at the age of only thirty-six, she became the most famous American woman of her time. As the wife of Lord Curzon, and Vicereine of India when British power was greatest, she occupied the most splendid position which any American, man or woman, has ever held in the British Empire, and fulfilled the role with incomparable grace, courage and distinction. Mary Leiter started life with many advantages: a wealthy and loving father, great beauty, and a charm and intelligence which soon won for her many friends, like President Grover Cleveland and Henry Adams, far beyond the reach of most women of her class. She was the star of Washington and New York society before she was twenty, and then went to Paris and London, which she conquered too. She met and married, after a secret engagement lasting two years, George Nathaniel Curzon, and becme his Vicereine at the age of twenty-eight. For six years she and her husband presided over a Viceregal court of unequaled magnificence, and on her two return visits to England she became an intimate of leading members of the British Cabinet, as she had of Lord Kitchener in India. A few months after Curzon resigned under tragic circumstances, she died. "It is a Cinderella story," Nigel Nicolson says, "if you can accept that Cinderella''s father was worth at least $20 million." It is also the portrait of three different societies -- American, English and Indian -- at the turn of the century. But the main theme of this book is emotional and personal -- the deepening relationships between a lovely American girl and an English statesman of extraordinary intellect and powers. "It is impossible to judge this difficult, complex man," Mr. Nicolson writes, "if one ignores his capacity of joy and love, which Mary, more than any other woman in his life, awoke in him."