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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... stand for twenty : a task of danger and difficulty ; but only so is the reader relieved of the swarm and confusion of life and branded effectively with the particular aspect which the writer wishes him to see . That Miss Stern has other ...
... stand for twenty : a task of danger and difficulty ; but only so is the reader relieved of the swarm and confusion of life and branded effectively with the particular aspect which the writer wishes him to see . That Miss Stern has other ...
Pagina 483
... stand , ' What , then , is it like to be a dwarf ? ' She came in escorted by two women who , being of normal size , looked like benevolent giants beside her . Smiling at the shop girls , they seemed to be at once disclaiming any lot in ...
... stand , ' What , then , is it like to be a dwarf ? ' She came in escorted by two women who , being of normal size , looked like benevolent giants beside her . Smiling at the shop girls , they seemed to be at once disclaiming any lot in ...
Pagina 486
... stand on the balcony watching the moonlit cat creep along Princess Mary's garden wall . But what could be more absurd ? It is , in fact , on the stroke of six ; it is a winter's evening ; we are walking to the Strand to buy a pencil ...
... stand on the balcony watching the moonlit cat creep along Princess Mary's garden wall . But what could be more absurd ? It is , in fact , on the stroke of six ; it is a winter's evening ; we are walking to the Strand to buy a pencil ...
Inhoudsopgave
This for Remembrance | 7 |
Further Reminiscences | 14 |
The Pastons and Chaucer | 20 |
Copyright | |
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