The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster and the Year That Changed Literature
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (956 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073HKYTMC |
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| Number of Pages | : | 300 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
As Willa Cather put it, "The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts", and what these writers were struggling with that year was in fact the invention of modernism. A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, TS Eliot, EM Forster, and DH Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernism. As 1922 begins, all four are literally at a loss for words, confronting an uncertain creative future despite success in the past. The World Broke in Two tells the fascinati