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 154
... less because one has suffered in it , she observes . But it is not only in a new sensibility to nature that we detect the change . Her attitude to life itself is altered . She is seeing it , for the greater part of the book , through ...
... less because one has suffered in it , she observes . But it is not only in a new sensibility to nature that we detect the change . Her attitude to life itself is altered . She is seeing it , for the greater part of the book , through ...
Pagina 498
... less scrup- ulous , less just , less sensitively aware of the different aspects of every case , he could , we feel , come down with greater force on one precise point . As it is , the strength of his blow is dissipated . He is like a ...
... less scrup- ulous , less just , less sensitively aware of the different aspects of every case , he could , we feel , come down with greater force on one precise point . As it is , the strength of his blow is dissipated . He is like a ...
Pagina 568
... less formalised , less flattened out by the burden of fame and the weight of old age . He sprang up effortlessly , unconsciously , like a heather root under a stone , not by imposing his views or by impressing his personality , but by ...
... less formalised , less flattened out by the burden of fame and the weight of old age . He sprang up effortlessly , unconsciously , like a heather root under a stone , not by imposing his views or by impressing his personality , but by ...
Inhoudsopgave
This for Remembrance | 7 |
Further Reminiscences | 14 |
The Pastons and Chaucer | 20 |
Copyright | |
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