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 174
... novelists very seldom stop in the middle or in the beginning of their great scenes to write anything that one could ... novelist's task lays such a load upon every nerve , muscle , and fibre that to demand beautiful prose in addition is ...
... novelists very seldom stop in the middle or in the beginning of their great scenes to write anything that one could ... novelist's task lays such a load upon every nerve , muscle , and fibre that to demand beautiful prose in addition is ...
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... novelist became a reformer , and thought with pardonable contempt of those vast Victorian family parties , where the funny man was always funny , the good woman always good , and nobody seemed aware , as they pursued their own tiny ...
... novelist became a reformer , and thought with pardonable contempt of those vast Victorian family parties , where the funny man was always funny , the good woman always good , and nobody seemed aware , as they pursued their own tiny ...
Pagina 510
... novelists among the Georgian writers because they cannot create characters who are real , true and convincing . I ... novelist from whom they could learn their business . ( Mr Conrad is a Pole , which makes him not very helpful ; and ...
... novelists among the Georgian writers because they cannot create characters who are real , true and convincing . I ... novelist from whom they could learn their business . ( Mr Conrad is a Pole , which makes him not very helpful ; and ...
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