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 183
... qualities steeping it through , as obvious in the lesser writers as in the greater . ' Learn to make yourselves akin to people . I would even like to add : make yourself indispensable to them . But let this sympathy be not with the mind ...
... qualities steeping it through , as obvious in the lesser writers as in the greater . ' Learn to make yourselves akin to people . I would even like to add : make yourself indispensable to them . But let this sympathy be not with the mind ...
Pagina 214
... qualities change from age to age , and it needs considerable integrity and conviction not to be dazzled by the pretensions or bamboozled by the persuasions of the competing crowd , this business of patron - finding is one of the tests ...
... qualities change from age to age , and it needs considerable integrity and conviction not to be dazzled by the pretensions or bamboozled by the persuasions of the competing crowd , this business of patron - finding is one of the tests ...
Pagina 229
... qualities which the simple story of adventure , as Marryat told it , or Fenimore Cooper , has no claim to possess . For it is clear that to admire and celebrate such men and such deeds , romantically , whole - heartedly and with the ...
... qualities which the simple story of adventure , as Marryat told it , or Fenimore Cooper , has no claim to possess . For it is clear that to admire and celebrate such men and such deeds , romantically , whole - heartedly and with the ...
Inhoudsopgave
This for Remembrance | 7 |
Further Reminiscences | 14 |
The Pastons and Chaucer | 20 |
Copyright | |
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