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"Irreverently funny and surprisingly moving, All Passion Spent is the story of a woman who discovers who she is just before it is too late. After the death of elder statesman Lord Slane--a former prime minister of Great Britain and viceroy of India--everyone assumes that his eighty-eight-year-old widow will slowly fade away in her grief, remaining as proper, decorative, and dutiful as she has been her entire married life. But the deceptively gentle Lady Slane has other ideas. First she defies the patronizing meddling of her children and escapes to a rented house in Hampstead. There, to her offspring's utter amazement, she revels in her new freedom, recalls her youthful ambitions, and gathers some very unsuitable companions--who reveal to her just how much she had sacrificed under the pressure of others' expectations"--"Classic novel by English writer Vita Sackville-West about an elderly upper-class woman who loses her husband and rediscovers herself"--… (más)
Lord Slane, baluarte del Imperio y gran estadista, ha muerto. Le sobreviven su viuda y seis hijos dispuestos a ocuparse de ella. Pero Lady Slane tiene otros planes: la sumisa esposa y complaciente madre quiere, al fin, vivir su propia vida. En una pequeña casa en Hampstead, decide cambiar el curso de su historia personal, recuperar sus sueños y descubrir la pasión que empeñó por las estrechas convenciones de un matrimonio victoriano.
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His servants he with new acquist Of true experience from this great event With peace and consolation hath dismist, And calm of mind, all passions spent. Samson Agonistes
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For Benedict and Nigel who are young this story of people who are old
FOR
BENEDICT AND NIGEL
WHO ARE YOUNG
THIS STORY OF PEOPLE WHO ARE OLD
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Henry Lyulph Holland, first Earl of Slane, had existed for so long that the public had begun to regard him as immortal.
Vita Sackville-West began writing All Passion Spent in the spring of 1930. (Introduction)
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Man has founded his calculations upon a mathematical system fundamentally false. His sums work out right for his own purposes, because he has crammed and constrained his planet into accepting his premises. Judged by other laws, though the answers remain correct, the premises would appear merely crazy; ingenious enough, but crazy.
Of course, she would not question the wisdom of any arrangements they might choose to make. Mother had no will of her own; all her life long, gracious and gentle, she had been wholly submissive - an appendage. It was ssumed that she had not enough brain to be self-assertive. "Thank goodness," Herbert sometimes remarked, "Mother is not one of those clever women." That she might have ideas whcih she kept to herself never entered into their estimate.
Henry by the compulsion of love had cheated her of her chosen life, yet had given her another life, an ample life, a life in touch with the greater world, if that took her fancy; or a life, alternatively, pressed close up against her own nursery. For a life of her own, he had substituted his life with its interests, or the lives of her children with their potentialities. He assumed that she might sink herself in either, if not in both, with equal joy. It had never occurred to him that she might prefer simply to be herself.lf.
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"In the presence of death," she said to Mr. Gosheron, taking refuge in a last convention, "you might at least take off your hat."
"Irreverently funny and surprisingly moving, All Passion Spent is the story of a woman who discovers who she is just before it is too late. After the death of elder statesman Lord Slane--a former prime minister of Great Britain and viceroy of India--everyone assumes that his eighty-eight-year-old widow will slowly fade away in her grief, remaining as proper, decorative, and dutiful as she has been her entire married life. But the deceptively gentle Lady Slane has other ideas. First she defies the patronizing meddling of her children and escapes to a rented house in Hampstead. There, to her offspring's utter amazement, she revels in her new freedom, recalls her youthful ambitions, and gathers some very unsuitable companions--who reveal to her just how much she had sacrificed under the pressure of others' expectations"--"Classic novel by English writer Vita Sackville-West about an elderly upper-class woman who loses her husband and rediscovers herself"--
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