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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Pagina 99
... fact that , like Stone- henge , it is still in existence . The great fame of the book has done its author some injustice ; for while it has given him a kind of anonymous glory it has obscured the fact that he was a writer of other works ...
... fact that , like Stone- henge , it is still in existence . The great fame of the book has done its author some injustice ; for while it has given him a kind of anonymous glory it has obscured the fact that he was a writer of other works ...
Pagina 469
... fact , that Shelley loved humanity if he did not love this Harriet or that Mary . A sense of the wretchedness of human beings burnt in him as brightly and as persistently as his sense of the divine beauty of Nature . He loved the clouds ...
... fact , that Shelley loved humanity if he did not love this Harriet or that Mary . A sense of the wretchedness of human beings burnt in him as brightly and as persistently as his sense of the divine beauty of Nature . He loved the clouds ...
Pagina 478
... fact , one feels , or let it be fiction ; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously . And here we again approach the difficulty which , for all his in- genuity , the biographer still has to face . Truth of fact and ...
... fact , one feels , or let it be fiction ; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously . And here we again approach the difficulty which , for all his in- genuity , the biographer still has to face . Truth of fact and ...
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This for Remembrance | 7 |
Further Reminiscences | 14 |
The Pastons and Chaucer | 20 |
Copyright | |
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