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A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in 1929, ‘A Room of One’s Own’ interweaves Woolf’s personal experience as a female writer with themes ranging from Austen and Brontë to Shakespeare’s gifted (and imaginary) sister. ‘Three Guineas’, Woolf’s most impassioned polemic, came almost a ...Show more
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Series
This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality. A Room of One's Own, first published in 1929, is a witty, urbane and persuasive argument against the intellectual subjection of wome ...Show more
A Room of One's Own/Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction' Ranging from the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister to Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity, A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Gi ...Show more
A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf
Category: Biography | Series: Harvest Book
An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, drawn by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years. Included are entries that refer to her own writing, others that are clearly writing exercises; accounts of people and scenes relevant to the raw material ...Show more
A Writer's Diary - Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf; Leonard Woolf (Editor); Lyndall Gordon (Preface by)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Persephone Bks.
An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary was drawn by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years. Included are entries that refer to her own writing and those that are clearly writing exercises, accounts of people and scenes relev ...Show more
Beautiful and Impossible Things: Selected Essays of Oscar Wilde by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classics
This new selection of essays by Oscar Wilde show-cases the varied aspects of his genius. For Pearson, the biographer, the essays and dialogues illustrate the many faces of Wilde's extraordinary character: wit, romancer, talker, lecturer, humanist and scholar. The ideas expressed remain remarkably releva ...Show more
Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf; Stella McNichol (Editor); Gillian Beer (Introduction by, Notes by)
Category: Classics
Outwardly a novel about life in a country-house in whose grounds there is to be a pageant, Between the Acts is also a striking evocation of English experience in the months leading up to the Second World War.Through dialogue, humour and the passionate musings of the characters, Virginia Woolf explores h ...Show more
Between the Acts by Frank (EDT) Virginia; Kermode Woolf
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Between the Acts & The Years by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
This volume brings together Virginia Woolf’s last two novels, The Years(1937) which traces the lives of members of a dispersed middle-class family between 1880 and 1937, and Between the Acts(1941), an account of a village pageant in the summer preceding the Second World War which successfully interweave ...Show more
Drawn to Nature - Gilbert White and the Artists by Simon Martin; David Attenborough (Introduction by); Virginia Woolf (Contribution by)
Category: Art
Since its publication in 1789, Gilbert White's Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne has inspired generations of artists, writers and naturalists. From Thomas Bewick to Eric Ravilious and Clare Leighton, numerous artists have illustrated White's celebrated book, together providing a microcosm of n ...Show more
Flush by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
'Things are not simple but complex. If he bit Mr. Browning he bit her too. Hatred is not hatred; hatred is also love.' Virginia Woolf's delightful biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel, which asks what it means to be human - and to be dog. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Li ...Show more