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 281
... tell us , for forty years , and Tony the Exceptional is , we believe , the youngest of a family of fifty , or it may be sixty , for we shall not perjure ourselves by pretending that we have kept strict count , or pretend that we could ...
... tell us , for forty years , and Tony the Exceptional is , we believe , the youngest of a family of fifty , or it may be sixty , for we shall not perjure ourselves by pretending that we have kept strict count , or pretend that we could ...
Pagina 513
... tell me where I was to begin . But I did not know where to begin . I just jumped in , and said how the impression was very pungent unmistakable , like a draught , like a smell of burning , and that all sorts of irrelevant and ...
... tell me where I was to begin . But I did not know where to begin . I just jumped in , and said how the impression was very pungent unmistakable , like a draught , like a smell of burning , and that all sorts of irrelevant and ...
Pagina 514
... tell the truth . It is not a simple matter to describe even an old lady in a railway carriage . All sorts of incongruous ideas rush in as I have said . But I will not bother you now with that very difficult and complex matter- how to tell ...
... tell the truth . It is not a simple matter to describe even an old lady in a railway carriage . All sorts of incongruous ideas rush in as I have said . But I will not bother you now with that very difficult and complex matter- how to tell ...
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