As one might expect from the correspondence of one of the 20th century's key cultural figures, Lytton Strachey's "ridiculously entertaining" letters (Spectator) are written with incisive wit and disarming candor, and bring into full relief his extraordinary life. This collection includes letters to Leonard and Virginia Woolf (including a newly discovered letter to Virginia, published here for the first time) and love letters to Dora Carrington and Duncan Grant, discussing literature and philosophy as well as topics like changes in morals and the advent of modernism.
"[These letters] add considerably to our knowledge of Lytton Strachey, and their passion, their vividness, their genial obscenities and their sheer fun fulfill this exacting writer's own ideal of allowing us to live for a while in his set."—Times Literary Supplement
