The Letters of Lytton Strachey by Strachey, Lytton; Levy, Paul (Editor)

The Letters of Lytton Strachey, Strachey, Lytton; Levy, Paul (Editor). Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2005. First American Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., xxi, 698 pp., bibliography, index. Ivory covered boards with silver spine titles. In fine, unmarked condition in unclipped jacket with the lightest of shelf wear. "The correspondence of one of the twentieth century's most important literary figures includes letters to Virginia Woolf, Maynard Keynes, Dora Carrington, Duncan Grant, and others.

Giles Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was an English writer, critic, biographer and a founding and influential member of the Bloomsbury Group. His best-known works are 'Eminent Victorians', published in 1918 and 'Queen Victoria; (1921) He lived with the painter Dora Carrington. A year later, he met and fell in love with Ralph Partridge, a distinguished veteran of the war, and Partridge married Carrington in 1921 in order to maintain the love triangle with Strachey. Their lives are portrayed in the 1995 British film 'Carrington', starring Emma Thompson and directed by Christopher Hampton.