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1) Essays
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Welcome to the Essays collection. A special selection of the nonfiction prose from influential and noteworthy authors. This book brings 22 of best essays of Virginia Woolf, across a wide range of subjects, including writing, feminism, Jane Austen, literature, poetry and many more topics.
The book contains the following texts:
Introduction by Edmund Gosse
The Modern Essay
A Room of One's Own
Modern Fiction
How Should One Read A Book?
How It Strikes...
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A collection of essays from the acclaimed author of Mrs. Dalloway on such subjects as Jane Austen, Geoffrey Chaucer, and her own literary philosophy.
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
Not written for scholars or critics, these essays are a collection of Virginia Woolf's everyday thoughts about literature and the world-and the art of reading...
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A response to an educated gentleman's request for her opinion on how to prevent the looming conflict that would become the Second World War, Three Guineas imparts Virginia Woolf's perspective on how to avoid another armed conflict. Using a question and answer format, Woolf responds to the gentleman's request by addressing three main questions: how can war be prevented? why is education for women so poorly supported? and why are women discouraged from...
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Warum werden eigentlich so übermäßig viele Bücher von Männern geschrieben? Geistige Freiheit hängt von materiellen Dingen ab, betont Virginia Woolf in ihrer großen Streitschrift, einem Schlüsselwerk des Feminismus. Und die hatten Frauen über Jahrhunderte nicht. Jede Frau sollte "fünfhundert Pfund im Jahr und ein eigenes Zimmer" haben. Das ist Unabhängigkeit.
Axel Monte hat den brillanten Essay übersetzt, mit den nötigen Erläuterungen...
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A Room of One's Own is a curious essay. Presented originally as two speeches to the Arts Society at Newham in 1928, the work is remarkable for its distinctive tone, for Woolf's witty and deceptively casual style, and for her decision largely eschew abstract arguments in favor of narrative, anecdote and the guidance of a strong, abiding first person narrator. She also, refreshingly, avoids doctrine and bombast, instead infusing her arguments with...
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Virginia Woolf is well known as one of the most prominent fiction writers of the twentieth century, what may be less well known is her astounding collection of letters and essays. Here is the collection first published in 1925, aimed at 'the Common reader', Woolf produced an eccentric and personal literary and social history of European thought in her own unique style, this collection helped cement Woolf as one of the most popular writers of her time....
15) Genius and Ink
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In the early years of its existence, the 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:...
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