Virginia Woolf: Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read - Illustrated (2019)

ISBN: 9780008355722

Virginia Woolf: Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read - Illustrated (2019)

ISBN: 9780008355722
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Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?
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ISBN
9780008355722
Author
Virginia Woolf
Pages
256
Binding
Hard cover
Publisher
TLS BOOKS
Date of publication
2019
Format
Book
Language
English
In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Forster among them. But one of the paper’s defining voices was Virginia Woolf, who produced a string of superb essays between the two World Wars.The weirdness of Elizabethan plays, the pleasure of revisiting favourite novels, the supreme examples of Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and Henry James, Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad: all are here, in anonymously published pieces, in which may be glimpsed the thinking behind Woolf’s works of fiction and the enquiring, feminist spirit of A Room of One’s Own.Here is Woolf the critical essayist, offering, at one moment, a playful hypothesis and, at another, a judgement laid down with the authority of a twentieth-century Dr Johnson. Here is Woolf working out precisely what’s great about Hardy, and how Elizabeth Barrett Browning made books a “substitute for living” because she was “forbidden to scamper on t