The World Broke in Two : Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, and the Year That Changed Literature

from TracyRowanAuthor

I'm a long-time reader of works by and about the Bloomsbury group and other writers and artists who were peripherally connected to it, so much of what's in this book was familiar to me. And yet there was much I learned, particularly about E. M. Forster. Either he has not been the subject of a goo...

from GaryKbookworm

The aftermath of World War 1 was devastating to the entire world and it essentially destroyed an entire generation of young men. The question remaining for the literary artists (prose and poetry) was how to explain the impact to themselves and to the rest of the world. The old way of explaining t...

from MSarki

The web of all four writers hinges both on their mutual relationships and on the censorship issues of their time. A very interesting read and fascinating study for the literary ones among us. Well-written and easily engaged. On a personal note I did find Virginia Woolf imminently more interesting...

from GaryLeeJones

Goldstein's _The World Broke in Two_ is a lively and engaging look at how literature changed around 1922--partly as a result of WWI, and partly as a result of Joyce's _Ulysses_. Although they did not all see Joyce's book as a complete success, Woolf, Lawrence, Forster, and Eliot all knew it had c...

from nancyadair

Willa Cather pronounced that 'the world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts'. WWI had been one of the most devastating conflicts in world history, leaving 41 million dead. Those who survived combat returned home wounded in body and soul and mind. Vast stretches of Europe had been turned into a wa...