The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1928Hogarth Press, 1986 - 653 pagina's Written while Virginia Woolf worked on Orlando, To the Lighthouse and A Room of One's Own, and including the complete text of The Common Reader, the essays in this volume explore subjects ranging from the world's greatest books to obscure English lives, confirming Woolf's faith in the value of writing and in the common reader she addresses. |
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Pagina 55
... England had been enriched by the dis- coveries of travellers in the past ; how Dr Linaker brought seeds of the damask rose and tulipas , and how beasts and plants and herbs , ' without which our life were to be said barbarous ' , " have ...
... England had been enriched by the dis- coveries of travellers in the past ; how Dr Linaker brought seeds of the damask rose and tulipas , and how beasts and plants and herbs , ' without which our life were to be said barbarous ' , " have ...
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... England ought to set up a statue to you , bring offerings of corn and wine - make you a kind of Goddess , eh - what was her name ? ' ' Not a very shapely figure for a Goddess , ' said Miss Ormerod with a little laugh . ' I should enjoy ...
... England ought to set up a statue to you , bring offerings of corn and wine - make you a kind of Goddess , eh - what was her name ? ' ' Not a very shapely figure for a Goddess , ' said Miss Ormerod with a little laugh . ' I should enjoy ...
Pagina 470
... England is a barbarous place where they imprison journalists for being disrespectful to the Prince Regent , stand men in stocks for publishing attacks upon the Scrip- tures , execute weavers upon the suspicion of treason , and , without ...
... England is a barbarous place where they imprison journalists for being disrespectful to the Prince Regent , stand men in stocks for publishing attacks upon the Scrip- tures , execute weavers upon the suspicion of treason , and , without ...
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This for Remembrance | 7 |
Further Reminiscences | 14 |
The Pastons and Chaucer | 20 |
Copyright | |
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