Roger Fry: A Biography (Harvest Book; Hb338) - Softcover

Woolf, Virginia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 015678520X ISBN 13: 9780156785204

Publisher: Mariner Books Classics, 1976

Synopsis

RO60077117. ROGER FRY, A BIOGRAPHY. 1976. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos plié, Intérieur frais. 303 pages. Photo en noir et blanc en frontispice (portrait). Illustré de nombreuses photos en noir et blanc hors texte. Dos fané. Annotations en page de garde.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

About this title

Product Description:

Virginia Woolf's only true biography, written to commemorate a devoted friend and one of the most renowned art critics of this century, who helped to bring the Postimpressionist movement from France to England and America. Index; illustrations.

From the Back Cover:

The last book Virginia Woolf saw into print before her death, Roger Fry, is her one serious full–length biography. "I can′t help thinking," she concluded, in spite of her difficulty in putting her theories of biography into practice, "I′ve caught a good deal of that iridescent man in my oh so laborious butterfly net."

This edition is based on the text first published by the Hogarth Press in 1940, amended to include corrections Woolf requested but which were never made in the impressions printed by the Press before her death. A relatively complete typescript version of the biography survives, as part of the Berg collection at the New York Public Library, and the results of a computer collation of this typescript with the first English edition are included in a list of substantive variants. These document Woolf′s revising and editing process in response to stylistic concerns and to the actual or anticipated reactions of her readers, including Fry′s family and friends.

In her introduction, Diane F. Gillespie traces Woolf′s work on the biography, including the problems she faced and the solutions she found, and provides a history of its critical reception. Annotations identify sources as well as the historical and personal contexts of Fry′s remarks and experiences. Other appendices contain previously unpublished materials: memoirs by Roger Fry and a further, brief, attempt by Woolf to sketch his portrait in words.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 015678520X
• ISBN 13: 9780156785204
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320