Bid Me to Live

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

Original title: Bid me to live

earliest edition we have, 1982 Black Swan Books, 1983 hardcover 211 pages

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"... a thinly disguised roman à clef in which most of the leading members of London's Bloomsbury Group are easily identified: D.H. Lawrence, his wife Frieda, Ezra Pound, English poet Richard Adlington and, in the character of the heroine Julia Ashton, H.D. herself. The time is World War I, the setting is the London of the 1917 air raids, and the theme the disintegration of love, undermined by the distant but ubiquito...

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Editions we hold

Bid Me to Live edition · 2015 · University Press of Florida · 224 pages · 9780813061955
Bid me to live edition · 2011 · University Press of Florida · 145 pages · 9780813037318
Bid Me to Live paperback · 1993 · Black Swan Books · 9780933806665
Bid Me to Live paperback · 1984 · Virago Press Ltd · 192 pages · 9780860684299
Bid Me to Live hardcover · 1983 · Black Swan Books · 211 pages
Bid me to live (a madrigal) edition · 1983 · Dial Press · 184 pages
Bid Me to Live hardcover · 1982 · Ams Pr Inc · 9780404170868

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