Bloomsbury by Quentin Bell (Used)

A closed circle of formidable talents, the fearsome combination of high intellect and high society: to the outsider, a veritable nest of snobbery and élitism.
To many contemporaries, including D. H. Lawrence and Wyndham Lewis, this was how 'Bloomsbury' appeared.
A kind of intellectual mafia upon whose whim the literary and artistic pretensions of lesser mortals either blossomed or died. Quentin Bell describes this intellectual power-house of the avant-garde early this century with sympathy and an intimate knowledge. The son of Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf's sister, he grew up in the midst of the redoubtable 'Bloomsbury set'. Such figures as Roger Fry, Lytton Strachey and, of course, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, were almost daily visitors throughout his childhood. From this uniquely privileged position Mr. Bell explores the myth and explains the reality of an extraordinary but brilliant group.
The illustrations for this paperback edition have been specially selected to include many previously unpublished personal photographs.
Quentin Bell is the author of the bestselling two-volume biography of his aunt, VIRGINIA WOOLF.

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