Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

By Virginia Woolf and Joan Trautmann Banks

Book Overview

Virginia Woolf was an inventive, witty correspondent, whether commenting on a domestic crisis, politics, or the roving of the writer's mind. Edited and with an Introduction by Joanne Trautmann Banks; Index.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 015622030X
• ISBN13: 9780156220309
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A study of Woolf is incomplete without her letters

Virginia Woolf is an author of myriad voices. The letters in Congenial Spirits are selections from Woolf's letters that provide insight to what Woolf thought and felt as she wrote. If you think that you know Woolf from blurbs in anthologies or from her novels, I recommend that you spend some time with her letters and her diaries. You will discover that Woolf is much more complex than the simplistic "stream of consciosness" moniker often applied to her.