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 108
... complete the monument . Whether Addison or another is interred within , it is a very fine tomb . But now that two centuries have passed since the real body of Addison was laid by night under the Abbey floor , we are , through no merit ...
... complete the monument . Whether Addison or another is interred within , it is a very fine tomb . But now that two centuries have passed since the real body of Addison was laid by night under the Abbey floor , we are , through no merit ...
Pagina 184
... complete the harmony . Probably we have to read a great many stories before we feel , and the feeling is essential to our satis- faction , that we hold the parts together , and that Tchehov was not merely rambling disconnectedly , but ...
... complete the harmony . Probably we have to read a great many stories before we feel , and the feeling is essential to our satis- faction , that we hold the parts together , and that Tchehov was not merely rambling disconnectedly , but ...
Pagina 397
... complete bewil- derment . Is it good ? or bad ? What kind of book is it ? How good a book is it ? The friction of reading and the emotion of reading beat up too much dust to let us find clear answers to these questions . If we are asked ...
... complete bewil- derment . Is it good ? or bad ? What kind of book is it ? How good a book is it ? The friction of reading and the emotion of reading beat up too much dust to let us find clear answers to these questions . If we are asked ...
Inhoudsopgave
This for Remembrance | 7 |
Further Reminiscences | 14 |
The Pastons and Chaucer | 20 |
Copyright | |
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The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume 4;Volumes 1925-1928 Virginia Woolf Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2008 |
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