Lytton Strachey was the quintessential literary critic of the end of the Victorian era; Virginia Woolf had already written four of her great novels (Jacob's Room, Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando and The Lighthouse); and both shone with their own light in the very demanding Bloomsbury Circle. Over twenty-five years, through the correspondence gathered by this volume, they judged their own works and others sharply, praised and shredded, told scathing anecdotes, mocked the extravagances they had not committed, and examined their illustrious friends with looks that oscillate between affection and cruelty.

Jus finally publishes a full version in Spanish that includes several unpublished letters discovered in recent years.