Testament of Youth. An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925
Language: English
Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson / Orion Publishing Group, London, 2014
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First published by Victor Gollancz in 1930, this is a Weidenfeld reprint edition of 2014 with number line '7 8 10 8 6'. Some svery slight edge wear to top and bottom of illustrated covers and spine, no jacket as issued, price on back cover (£18.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 582pp. In 1914 Vera Brittain (1893-1970), was 20 and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life, and the life of her whole generation, had changed in a way that would have been unimaginable in the tranquil pre war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of the First World War, is Brittain's account of how she survived those agonising years, how she lost the man she loved and her brother, how she nursed the wounded and how she emerged into an altered world. A passionate record of a lost generation, it made Vera Brittain one of the best loved writers of her time, and has lost none of its power to shock, move and enthral readers since its first publication in 1933. Vera Brittain's daughter, was the late former Labour Cabinet Minister and Liberal Democrat peer Shirley Williams. A scarce book.…
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- Title
- Testament of Youth. An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925
- Author
- Brittain, Vera. With an Introduction by Mark Bostridge, Preface by Shirley Williams, Afterword by Kate Mosse
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson / Orion Publishing Group, London
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1780226594
- ISBN 13
- 9781780226590
- Illustrator
- Covers by Madeline Meckliffe
- Edition
- Reprint
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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About the Author
Born in 1893, Vera Brittain won an exhibition to Somerville College, Oxford, in 1914, but a year later abandoned her studies to enlist as a VAD nurse. She served throughout the war, working in London, Malta and close to the Front in France. At the end of the war, with all of those closest to her dead, she returned to Oxford.
Vera Brittain was a convinced pacifist, a prolific speaker, lecturer, journalist and writer, she devoted much of her energy to the causes of peace and feminism. She wrote 29 books in all, novels, poetry, biography and autobiography, but it was TESTAMENT OF YOUTH which established her reputation and made her one of the best-loved writers of her time. She died in 1970.
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