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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... things , harsh things , unpleasant things , difficult things , even if they say them with the abandonment and simplicity which catastrophe has bred in them . Our first impres- sions of Tchehov are not of simplicity but of bewilderment ...
... things , harsh things , unpleasant things , difficult things , even if they say them with the abandonment and simplicity which catastrophe has bred in them . Our first impres- sions of Tchehov are not of simplicity but of bewilderment ...
Pagina 345
... things matter and some things do not . His equi- librium was perfect . Whether he was set down in India or Oxford , among the simple or the learned , the aristocrats or the Dons he found his balance at once and got the utmost out of the ...
... things matter and some things do not . His equi- librium was perfect . Whether he was set down in India or Oxford , among the simple or the learned , the aristocrats or the Dons he found his balance at once and got the utmost out of the ...
Pagina 431
... things that are of importance . They are not necessarily happy or success- ful , but there is a zest in their presence , an interest in their doings . They seem alive all over . This may be partly the result of circum- stances they have ...
... things that are of importance . They are not necessarily happy or success- ful , but there is a zest in their presence , an interest in their doings . They seem alive all over . This may be partly the result of circum- stances they have ...
Inhoudsopgave
This for Remembrance | 7 |
Further Reminiscences | 14 |
The Pastons and Chaucer | 20 |
Copyright | |
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