The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1919-1924Hogarth Press, 1986 - 551 pagina's This is the third volume in a series on the complete non-fiction work of Virginia Woolf, which contains her essays, diaries and letters. This particular book is a compilation of Virginia Woolf's reviews and essays, including 80 previously uncollected pieces, spanning the years 1919-1924, while she worked on her novels "Night and Day", "Jacob's Room" and "Mrs Dalloway" and edited works such as T.S.Eliot's "The Wasteland" for The Hogarth Press. They reveal not only her talent as a critic and essayist, but also provide an insight into her understanding of writing, her creativity and her opinions on plays, films and paintings. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is one of English literature's greatest writers renowned for her novels, stories, diaries and letters. With her husband Leonard Woolf, she founded The Hogarth Press. |
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Pagina 31
... literature and the process , to choose an example , of making bicycles scarcely holds good beyond the first glance . It is doubtful whether in the course of the centuries , though we have learnt much about making machines , we have ...
... literature and the process , to choose an example , of making bicycles scarcely holds good beyond the first glance . It is doubtful whether in the course of the centuries , though we have learnt much about making machines , we have ...
Pagina 302
... literature now and then and cry out for a life of action , just as the man of action would rather have written the poem than have done the deed which it describes . Scott , no doubt , rated literature very low , as one is apt to rate ...
... literature now and then and cry out for a life of action , just as the man of action would rather have written the poem than have done the deed which it describes . Scott , no doubt , rated literature very low , as one is apt to rate ...
Pagina 357
... literature in spite of its imperfections has the same hold on us , the same endearing quality of being part of ourselves , of being the globe in which we are and not the globe which we look upon respectfully from outside . Nor has any ...
... literature in spite of its imperfections has the same hold on us , the same endearing quality of being part of ourselves , of being the globe in which we are and not the globe which we look upon respectfully from outside . Nor has any ...
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