LITERATURE - Virginia Woolf
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Flush: A Biography
- ASIN: 0156319527
- ISBN: 0156319527
- Manufacturer: Mariner Books
This story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening pages. Although Flush has adventures of his own with bullying dogs, horrid maids, and robbers, he also provides the reader with a glimpse into Browning’s life. Introduction by Trekkie Ritchie.
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Orlando: A Biography
- ASIN: 015670160X
- ISBN: 015670160X
- Brand: Mariner Books
- Manufacturer: Mariner Books
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Orlando (Annotated): A Biography
- ASIN: 0156031515
- ISBN: 0156031515
- Brand: Mariner Books
- Manufacturer: Mariner Books
Begun as a "joke," Orlando is Virginia Woolf's fantastical biography of a poet who first appears as a sixteen-year-old boy at the court of Elizabeth I, and is left at the novel's end a married woman in the year 1928. Part love letter to Vita Sackville-West, part exploration of the art of biography, Orlando is one of Woolf's most popular and enterta... [Read More]
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Virginia Woolf
- ASIN: 0375701362
- ISBN: 0375701362
- Brand: Vintage Books
- Manufacturer: Vintage
"A biography wholly worthy of the brilliant woman it chronicles. . . . It rediscovers Virginia Woolf afresh." --The Philadelphia Inquirer While Virginia Woolf--one of our century's most brilliant and mercurial writers--has had no shortage of biographers, none has seemed as naturally suited to the task as Hermione Lee. Subs... [Read More]
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 4: 1931-35
- ASIN: 0156260395
- ISBN: 0156260395
- Brand: Mariner Books
- Manufacturer: Mariner Books
The penultimate volume of Woolf's diaries details the mature period of The Years and moments of personal sadness brought by the deaths of Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington, and Roger Fry. "A book of extraordinary vitality, wit, and beauty" (New York Times Book Review). Edited by Anne Olivier Bell, assisted by Andrew McNeillie; Index.... [Read More]
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Virginia Woolf
- ASIN: 0500515921
- ISBN: 0500515921
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
An ideal introduction to the life and work of Virginia Woolf by an award-winning author: the story of a life lived with intensity from moment to moment and shaped into the lasting patterns of art. In 1907, when she was twenty-five and not yet a published novelist, Virginia Stephen had everything still to prove. She felt herself to be at a crossroad... [Read More]
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Imagining Virginia Woolf: An Experiment in Critical Biography
- ASIN: 0691138125
- ISBN: 0691138125
- Brand: Brand: Princeton University Press
- Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
Where other works of literary criticism are absorbed with the question--How to read a book?--Imagining Virginia Woolf asks a slightly different but more intriguing one: how does one read an author? Maria DiBattista answers this by undertaking an experiment in critical biography. The subject of this work is not Virginia Woolf, the person who wrote t... [Read More]
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Virginia Woolf: A Biography
- ASIN: 0156935805
- ISBN: 0156935805
- Brand: Mariner Books
- Manufacturer: Harvest
The first full-scale biography of the eminent British writer, written by her nephew. Index; photographs.
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Flush (Oxford World's Classics (Paperback))
- ASIN: 0199539294
- ISBN: 9780199539291
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
'I lay in the garden and red the Browning love letters, and the figure of their dog made me laugh so I couldn't resist making him a Life.' Throughout her career, Woolf invokes the animal world both directly and metaphorically. She started to write a biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel after finishing The Waves, tracing the life of the... [Read More]
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The Virginia Woolf Writers' Workshop: Seven Lessons to Inspire Great Writing
- ASIN: 0553384929
- ISBN: 0553384929
- Brand: Brand: Bantam
- Manufacturer: Bantam
In this brilliantly imagined book, author Danell Jones mines the diaries, essays, correspondence, and fiction of a literary legend to create an unforgettable master class in the art of writing. Using Virginia Woolf’s own words, this inspiring, instructive, and entertaining guide will delight fans, students, and teachers alike—and at last give W... [Read More]
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Virginia Woolf's Nose
- ASIN: 0691130442
- ISBN: 0691130442
- Brand: Brand: Princeton University Press
- Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
What choices must a biographer make when stitching the pieces of a life into one coherent whole? How do we best create an accurate likeness of a private life from the few articles that linger after death? How do we choose what gets left out? This intriguing and witty collection of essays by an internationally acclaimed biographer looks at how biogr... [Read More]
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All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf
- ASIN: 1524760625
- ISBN: 1524760625
- Manufacturer: Crown
A wise, lyrical memoir about the power of literature to help us read our own lives—and see clearly the people we love most.“Transcendent.”—The Washington Post • “You’d be hard put to find a more moving appreciation of Woolf’s work.” —The Wall Street Journal Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia ... [Read More]
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Moments of Being
- UPC: 971488255704
- ASIN: 0156619180
- ISBN: 0156619180
- Brand: Mariner Books
- Manufacturer: Mariner Books
Published years after her death, Moments of Being is Virginia Woolf’s only autobiographical writing, considered by many to be her most important book.In “Reminiscences,” the first of five pieces included in Moments of Being, Woolf focuses on the death of her mother, “the greatest disaster that could happen,” and its effect on her father, ... [Read More]
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Virginia Woolf (Penguin Lives)
- ASIN: 0670894435
- ISBN: 0670894435
- Brand: Brand: Viking Adult
- Manufacturer: Viking Adult
An intimate, surprising portrait of the great American writer peels back the layers of Woolf's life to reveal a writer passionately interested in women's issues, human rights, the nature of war, and other important issues. 25,000 first printing.
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Night and Day (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
- ASIN: 0140185682
- ISBN: 9780140185683
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
An immaculately-observed social comedy that explores the boundaries between personal freedom and the demands of love Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney, and her dangerous attraction to the passionate Ralph Denham. As she strugg... [Read More]
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The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, and the Year That Changed Literature
- ASIN: 1250182506
- ISBN: 1250182506
- Manufacturer: Picador
A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernismThe World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four legendary writers, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and D. H.... [Read More]
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The Flight of the Mind
- UPC: 884933160846
- ASIN: 0520205049
- ISBN: 0520205049
- Manufacturer: University of California Press
In this major new book on Virginia Woolf, Caramagno contends psychobiography has much to gain from a closer engagement with science. Literary studies of Woolf's life have been written almost exclusively from a psychoanalytic perspective. They portray Woolf as a victim of the Freudian "family romance," reducing her art to a neurotic evasion of a tra... [Read More]
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Virginia Woolf A to Z: A Comprehensive Reference for Students, Teachers, and Common Readers to Her Life, Work, and Critical Reception (Literary A to Z's)
- ASIN: 0195110277
- ISBN: 0195110277
- Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
Her revolutionary novels and essays have inspired generations of feminists, and her life has aroused both interest and speculation. In Virginia Woolf A-Z, the author's works and autobiographical writings are set in the context of her infamous social milieu. Eight "family" trees map out the complicated relationships and living arrangements of the Bl... [Read More]
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The Common Reader: First Series, Annotated Edition
- ASIN: 015602778X
- ISBN: 015602778X
- Manufacturer: Mariner Books
Woolf’s first and most popular volume of essays. This collection has more than twenty-five selections, including such important statements as “Modern Fiction” and “The Modern Essay.” Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index.
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The Second Common Reader: Annotated Edition
- ASIN: 0156028166
- ISBN: 0156028166
- Manufacturer: Harvest
Here, in twenty-six essays, Woolf writes of English literature in its various forms, including the poetry of Donne; the novels of Defoe, Sterne, Meredith, and Hardy; Lord Chesterfield’s letters and De Quincey’s autobiography. She writes, too, about the life and art of women. Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index.... [Read More]
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