Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) was a successful novelist, poet, and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist. She published more than a dozen collections of poetry and thirteen novels during her lifetime. She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature: in 1927 for her pastoral epic, The Land, and in 1933 for her Collected Poems. She was the inspiration for the protagonist of Orlando: A Biography by her famous friend and lover, Virginia Woolf.
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This collectionÕs title is taken from its first story, a novella, which is followed by four shorter tales, all expertly and sensitively drawn. Story 1, ÒThe Heir,Ó concerns an inheritance as told from the point of view of the heir, an unmarried middle-... SEE MORE