Essays of Virginia Woolf, 1912-1918: 1912-1918

by Virginia Woolf

Book Overview

Essays beginning at the time of her marriage to Leonard Woolf and ending just after the Armistice. More than half have not been collected previously. "In these essays we see both Woolf's work and her self afresh" (Chicago Tribune). Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151290563
• ISBN13: 9780151290567
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Length: 381 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Addictive

Reading Virginia Woolf's essays is a pleasure in itself, but reading them in chronological order adds the suspense of discovery. You want to discover how the writer's style evolved, and to find in these pages the roots of her future, mastery prose. Already her writing has gained much confidence and maturity since the last volume. And sometime a sentence or a passage jumps out, clever, lyrical and opinionated, which surprises you and draws you back pages later. The annotations are extensive, including passages lifted from her diaries and her reading notes. They are revealing not only with respect to the content of the essays but to how Virginia Woolf composed them.