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 182
... sense of the Atlantic Ocean and two or three hundred years on the far side of it separating his civilisation from ours ? 2 A special acuteness and detachment , a sharp angle of vision the foreigner will often achieve ; but not that ...
... sense of the Atlantic Ocean and two or three hundred years on the far side of it separating his civilisation from ours ? 2 A special acuteness and detachment , a sharp angle of vision the foreigner will often achieve ; but not that ...
Pagina 334
... sense . Robinson Crusoe thinks of God : ' some- times I would expostulate with myself , why providence should thus completely ruin its creatures ... But something always return'd swift upon me to check these thoughts . " God does not ...
... sense . Robinson Crusoe thinks of God : ' some- times I would expostulate with myself , why providence should thus completely ruin its creatures ... But something always return'd swift upon me to check these thoughts . " God does not ...
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... sense of the physical world which Hardy more than any novelist can bring before us ; the sense that the little prospect of man's existence is ringed by a landscape which , while it exists apart , yet confers a deep and solemn beauty ...
... sense of the physical world which Hardy more than any novelist can bring before us ; the sense that the little prospect of man's existence is ringed by a landscape which , while it exists apart , yet confers a deep and solemn beauty ...
Inhoudsopgave
This for Remembrance | 7 |
Further Reminiscences | 14 |
The Pastons and Chaucer | 20 |
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