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 244
... lights up that cave of darkness , and we are shown the hard , tangi- ble , material shapes of bodiless thoughts hanging like bats in the primeval darkness where light has never visited them before . A writer thus has need of a third eye ...
... lights up that cave of darkness , and we are shown the hard , tangi- ble , material shapes of bodiless thoughts hanging like bats in the primeval darkness where light has never visited them before . A writer thus has need of a third eye ...
Pagina 482
... light - windows ; there are points of brilliance burning steady like low stars - lamps ; this empty ground which holds the country in it and its peace is only a London square , set about by offices and houses where at this hour fierce ...
... light - windows ; there are points of brilliance burning steady like low stars - lamps ; this empty ground which holds the country in it and its peace is only a London square , set about by offices and houses where at this hour fierce ...
Pagina 524
... light came back . I had very strongly the feeling as the light went out of some vast obeisance ; something kneel- ing down , & low & suddenly raised up , when the colours came . They came back astonishingly lightly & quickly ...
... light came back . I had very strongly the feeling as the light went out of some vast obeisance ; something kneel- ing down , & low & suddenly raised up , when the colours came . They came back astonishingly lightly & quickly ...
Inhoudsopgave
This for Remembrance | 7 |
Further Reminiscences | 14 |
The Pastons and Chaucer | 20 |
Copyright | |
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