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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... whole . But we must beware . Socrates did not care for ' mere beauty ' , by which he meant , perhaps , beauty as ornament . A people who judged as much as the Athenians did by ear , sitting out - of - doors at the play or listening to ...
... whole . But we must beware . Socrates did not care for ' mere beauty ' , by which he meant , perhaps , beauty as ornament . A people who judged as much as the Athenians did by ear , sitting out - of - doors at the play or listening to ...
Pagina 179
... whole of George Eliot , the whole of Thomas Hardy , and a good deal of Henry James in order to write articles about them . Its rather humiliat- ing , reading other peoples novels . George Eliot fascinates me . Did your father know her ...
... whole of George Eliot , the whole of Thomas Hardy , and a good deal of Henry James in order to write articles about them . Its rather humiliat- ing , reading other peoples novels . George Eliot fascinates me . Did your father know her ...
Pagina 397
... whole , and the book as a whole is different , and gives one a dif- ferent emotion , from the book received currently in several different parts . Its symmetry and proportion , its confusion and distortion can cause great delight or ...
... whole , and the book as a whole is different , and gives one a dif- ferent emotion , from the book received currently in several different parts . Its symmetry and proportion , its confusion and distortion can cause great delight or ...
Inhoudsopgave
This for Remembrance | 7 |
Further Reminiscences | 14 |
The Pastons and Chaucer | 20 |
Copyright | |
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